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  • Asset Classes
    • Equities

      • Is it Time to Tweak, Keep or Scrap Reg NMS?
      • Australia's Economy Hitting Turbulence
      • And The Buy-Side Trading Technology Advantage Goes To....?
      More Equities
    • Derivatives

      • 60 Percent of Derivatives Users Unprepared for Dodd Frank and EMIR —Study
      • Taiwanese Bank Extends License with Fenics for FX Options System
      • Markit Launches CLO Pricing Service
      More Derivatives
    • Fixed Income

      • Europe's MTS to Launch an E-Bond Platform for U.S. Institutions as Interest Heats Up
      • Australia's Economy Hitting Turbulence
      • And The Buy-Side Trading Technology Advantage Goes To....?
      • More Fixed Income
  • Algos
    • Top Story

      Is Trading Via Microwaves Ready for Prime Time?
      As traders look for the fastest way to trade, one connectivity provider may have an answer: Sending data and trade orders via microwaves. So, what happens when it rains?
    • Algos News

      • Czech Republic's RSJ Chooses KX Systems for Algo Trading
      • Is Trading Via Microwaves Ready for Prime Time?
      • Regulators vs HFT Firms Debate: Who Blinks First?
      More Algos News
    • Quick Links

      • HFT Debate: Two Experts Square Off On Market Structure
      • Regulators vs HFT Firms Debate: Who Blinks First?
      • Nasdaq, CME Building Superfast HFT Link
      • Winton Capital’s Hedge Fund Closes Amid No Interest
  • HFT
    • Top Story

      High Frequency Trading Loses Its Luster
      With profits down due to lower volumes and declining volatility in U.S. stocks, high-frequency traders face growing pressure to find new markets and innovate when speed is not enough.
    • HFT News

      • HFT Firms Flood DC with Donor Dollars
      • Is Trading Via Microwaves Ready for Prime Time?
      • HFTs Chase Speed Despite Risks and Regulations
      More HFT News
    • Quick Links

      • Self-Learning Algorithms: The New Frontier for Trading and Market Surveillance
      • Is Trading Via Microwaves Ready for Prime Time?
      • High-Frequency Trading Shops Play the Colocation Game
      • QUANT GOLD BOOK 2012: RBC's Ryan Larson Favors Man Over Machine
  • Exchanges
    • Top Story

      5 Reasons Why One In Every Three U.S. Equities Shares Is Traded In the Dark
      Tabb Group offers the real reasons why 33 percent of U.S. equities volume is traded off-exchange.
    • Exchanges News

      • The Rich Past and Uncertain Future of the NYSE
      • Nasdaq OMX Launches ETF Exchange
      • Nasdaq OMX to Re-Launch PSX for Exchange Traded Products
      More Exchanges News
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      • FIX Protocol Risk Checks Take Aim at Fat Finger Trades, Errant Orders
      • Wall Street’s 9 Worst Bets Ever: From Nick Leeson to JPMorgan
      • ICE Eyes IPO of NYSE Euronext's Equity Exchanges in Europe After Deal Closes
      • The SEC Just Brought The Hammer Down On The Stock Exchanges
  • Dark Pools
    • Top Story

      5 Reasons Why One In Every Three U.S. Equities Shares Is Traded In the Dark
      Tabb Group offers the real reasons why 33 percent of U.S. equities volume is traded off-exchange.
    • Dark Pools News

      • ConvergEx Reduces Latency of Millennium ATS By 75%
      • Barclays Commits to Reporting Volumes of Dark Pool
      • Nasdaq OMX Launches ETF Exchange
      More Dark Pools News
    • Quick Links

      • Exchanges Fight Back Against the Dark Pools
      • BofA Merrill Unveils Instinct Natural to Help the Buy Side Execute Block Trades
      • Nasdaq OMX Launches ETF Exchange
      • Are Options Dark Pools an Option?
  • EMS/OMS
    • Top Story

      Market Structure Drives the Buy Side to Seek New OMS/EMS Systems —Study
      Buy side firms need sophisticated tools to navigate the market structure as well as analytics and connectivity to alternative trading systems, but cost pressures are an obstacle to upgrading their OMS-EMS platforms, according to Greenwich Associates' study.
    • EMS/OMS News

      • TradingScreen Adds FX Functionality for Dodd Frank Compliance
      • Patent Issued to RealTick EMS for Staging of Electronic Orders
      • Linear Investments Selects TradingScreen's TradePrime
      More EMS/OMS News
    • Quick Links

      • The Buy Side Wrestles with the OMS-EMS Dilemma
      • BlackRock Acquisition of BGI Presents Integration Challenges
      • EMS Growing Pains
      • Creditex Rolls out Electronic Auction To Reduce Risk in Credit Default Swaps
  • Data Infrastructure
    • Top Story

      Market Structure Drives the Buy Side to Seek New OMS/EMS Systems —Study
      Buy side firms need sophisticated tools to navigate the market structure as well as analytics and connectivity to alternative trading systems, but cost pressures are an obstacle to upgrading their OMS-EMS platforms, according to Greenwich Associates' study.
    • Data Infrastructure News

      • Czech Republic's RSJ Chooses KX Systems for Algo Trading
      • Barclays Commits to Reporting Volumes of Dark Pool
      • Bloomberg Taps Former IBM CEO As Privacy and Data Advisor
      More Data Infrastructure News
    • Quick Links

      • Is Your Bloomberg Terminal Spying On You?
      • Credit Suisse Sues Former VP Over Secrets
      • And The Buy-Side Trading Technology Advantage Goes To....?
      • With More Fixed Income Assets to Manage, Automation Key For the Buy Side
  • Regulation
    • Top Story

      Prosecutors Circling, SAC Hedge Fund May Shut Down
      After several high-profile arrests for insider trading, the head of the rich yet beleaguered SAC hedge fund may call it quits to avoid jail time.
    • Regulation News

      • Prosecutors Circling, SAC Hedge Fund May Shut Down
      • The Rich Past and Uncertain Future of the NYSE
      • HFT Firms Flood DC with Donor Dollars
      More Regulation News
    • Quick Links

      • HFT Debate: Two Experts Square Off On Market Structure
      • New Limit Up/Limit Down Rules Start Today
      • Spotting a Rogue Trader
      • Creditex Rolls out Electronic Auction To Reduce Risk in Credit Default Swaps
  • Managing The Desk
    • Top Story

      Buy Side Gives Mixed Reviews to Sales Traders, Casting Doubt on Value Added Analytics
      traders on broker coverage, revealed that buy side firms are not completely satisfied with sales traders and that brokers may be wasting resources on analytics and other services.
    • Managing The Desk News

      • BofA Hires Caliendo to Manage Relationships with Hedge Funds
      • Prosecutors Circling, SAC Hedge Fund May Shut Down
      • Is Your Bloomberg Terminal Spying On You?
      More Managing The Desk News
    • Quick Links

      • Exclusive: Inside the GETCO Execution Services Trading Floor
      • Winton Capital’s Hedge Fund Closes Amid No Interest
      • Prosecutors Circling, SAC Hedge Fund May Shut Down
      • Going Long: Former NFLer Tackles Wall Street
  • TCA
    • Top Story

      BlackRock Acquisition of BGI Presents Integration Challenges
      BlackRock’s deal for BGI will create the world’s largest money manager. But integrating BGI’s automated electronic trading and transaction cost analysis technology with BlackRock’s Aladdin system will require a world-class effort.
    • TCA News

      • Monash Investors Adopts Imagine Portfolio, Risk Tools
      • Goldman Tops Global Prime Broker Rankings
      • ITG Rolls Out TCA for Institutional FX Trading
      More TCA News
    • Quick Links

      • Inside Abel Noser's Trading Floor
      • Does TCA Really Work for the Buy Side?
      • Predictive Analytics Arms the Buy Side Against HFT
      • In the Search for Alpha, It's a Quant's World
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    Derivatives Commentary & Analysis

      • 60 Percent of Derivatives Users Unprepared for Dodd Frank and EMIR —Study
        By Ivy Schmerken | May 08, 2013
        The vast majority of corporate end users of derivatives are underprepared for compliance with both rule sets due to regulatory uncertainty, over cross-border swaps, according to a survey by Chatham Financial.
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      • Taiwanese Bank Extends License with Fenics for FX Options System
        By Ivy Schmerken | May 06, 2013
        Already a customer for 10 years, E.Sun Commercial Bank will extend its license of Fenics Professional in foreign exchange options to streamline procedures and gain functions such as volatility surface management.
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      • Markit Launches CLO Pricing Service
        By Ivy Schmerken | May 02, 2013
        The service uses observable market data and models to offer a transparent approach to CLO pricing.
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      • Paladyne Systems Integrates Numerix; Licenses Source Code
        By Ivy Schmerken | April 30, 2013
        Paladyne, a Broadridge Company, has integrated the Numerix Portfolio Risk into its front-office solutions to help its clients help manage risk across asset classes with the addition of Paldyne's reference data.
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      • TradingScreen Adds FX Functionality for Dodd Frank Compliance
        By Ivy Schmerken | April 29, 2013
        The firm's EMS now offers midpoint pricing on FX pre-spot, forwards, NDFs and swap deal types, ahead of the regulation's deadline on May 1st.
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      • Mandara Capital Deploys Tbrick's Hosted Trading Service
        By Ivy Schmerken | April 22, 2013
        A hedge fund specialist in crude oil and derivatives, Mandara Capital chose Tbrick's futures trading platform, powered by S&P Capital IQ's Quantlink and QuantFeed, to improve speed and to support inhouse development.
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      • Wells Fargo Slashes Money Manager Programs, Angers Brokers
        By Phil Albinus | April 19, 2013
        Meanwhile, the number of investors pulling money out of hedge funds levelled off last month.
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      • Bloomberg Files Lawsuit on Swaps Trading, Contesting Margin Rules
        By Ivy Schmerken | April 17, 2013
        Argues that CFTC's rule imposing higher margins on swaps than comparable swap futures, is not based on risk analysis and will harm swap execution facilities..
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      • Can We Do Better? Stealing Other People's Property
        By Brooke Allen | April 16, 2013
        Banks have long been creating products that are so complex that clients, risk managers and even some of the firm's own salespeople can't understand what is actually in them.
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      • Once Swaps are in the Clearinghouse, the Real Work Begins
        By Ivy Schmerken | April 12, 2013
        This week trueEX said it plans to launch a service to provide termination, compaction, re-balancing and backloading to CME clearing clients.
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      • S&P Dow Jones Licenses 3 New Credit Spread Indices to trueEX
        By Ivy Schmerken | April 10, 2013
        Electronic swaps exchange trueEX will create futures contracts based on the independently managed and calculated indices, and will be the first regulated exchange to offer exposure to corporate credit spreads.
        Be the first to comment
      • Jamie Dimon Scrambles to Keep CEO-Chairman Role
        By Phil Albinus | April 09, 2013
        Do you hear that sound coming from Wall Street? It’s the sound of JPMorgan Chase directors scrambling hard so that Jamie Dimon gets to keep both his CEO and chairman jobs for America’s largest bank.
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      • Bank Leumi Chooses Calypso As Cross-Asset Platform
        By Ivy Schmerken | April 08, 2013
        One of Israel's largest banking corporations, Bank Leumi, will utilize Calypso's front to back office platform for cross asset class support, including interest rate derivatives.
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      • Markit Launches Clearing Certainty Hub for OTC Derivatives
        By Ivy Schmerken | March 25, 2013
        Buy side firms, regional banks and other firms that execute OTC derivatives through FCMs will have a consolidated view of available credit among multiple clearing venues.
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      • Banks Beef Up FX Options Reams as Big Moves Boost Risk, Rewards
        By Nia Williams, Reuters | March 25, 2013
        Banks are strengthening their foreign exchange options desks, investing in people and technology, as companies and hedge funds seek protection or profit from big moves in major currencies.

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      • Minding the Boys: Operational Risk on the Trading Floor
        By Phil Albinus | March 21, 2013
        Bad lads, poor handwriting and preening managers - let's take a look at operational risk on the floor of a London brokerage.
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      • Options Market Structure: Is it Getting Too Complex?
        By Ivy Schmerken | March 20, 2013
        With the number of U.S. options exchanges soon to be 12 by the end of the year, experts are concerned about complexity, fragmentation and rising technology costs amid lower volumes.
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      • JPMorgan E-mails: "Stupid Quants"
        By Phil Albinus | March 19, 2013
        When the London Whale's losses came to light, the higher-ups inside JPMorgan looked around to share the blame.
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      • Senate Hearing Sheds Light on JPMorgan Whale Trade
        By Ivy Schmerken | March 15, 2013
        Senator Carl Levin grills Ina Drew and other bank execs, accusing them of changing VaR and hiding data on risky derivatives trade from regulators.
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      • Should All Foreign Exchange Traders be Welcome?
        By Marcus Holland | March 14, 2013
        The National Futures Association should carefully consider how it regulates access to markets for individual investors.
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      • What Will Mary Jo White’s SEC Look Like?
        By Phil Albinus | March 14, 2013
        President Obama's choice to run the SEC has her strengths and weaknesses - but what exactly will Mary Jo White's stamp be on the embattled financial regulatory agency?
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      • JPM Senate Hearing: What's the Point of Beating a Dead Whale?
        By Ivy Schmerken | March 14, 2013
        Friday's hearing about JP Morgan's London Whale trade led by Senator Carl Levin is really about putting pressure on regulators to finish the Volcker Rule, Propublica's Jesse Eisenger tells Bloomberg TV.
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      • Swap Data Reporting: War Breaks Out
        By Ivy Schmerken | March 08, 2013
        The U.S. regulator's decision to allow CME Group to report swap transactions to its own repository has inflamed tensions with the DTCC, which has called the CME rule 1001 "anti-competitive."
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      • LCH.Clearnet Sees Surge in Buy Side Activity
        By Ivy Schmerken | March 05, 2013
        In the run up to Dodd Frank's March 11 deadline for mandatory central clearing,LCH.Clearnet experienced a record month in February, clearing over $22 trillion notional interest rate derivatives for 73 buy-side clients.
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      • Meet The Top Hedge Fund Billionaires
        By Phil Albinus | March 05, 2013
        Forbes' recent listing of the top hedge fund managers and traders who are billionaires is pretty much what you would expect.
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