Data & Infrastructure 

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OTC Derivatives: A Work in Process
The good news is that institutional brokers' innovation in structured finance and other OTC derivatives continues to grow and meet investor demand. . The bad news is that understanding the new risks of this market will take some more time, and probably few more trillion dollars in capital losses.

The Time Has Come for Fixed-Income Electronic Trading
In some regards, nothing has changed in the fixed-income trading space to warrant electronic trading. On the other hand, however, everything has changed, signaling that the time may be right for e-trading.

The Lessons of Risk Management


Credit Suisse’s Dan Mathisson Predicts a Cheaper, Faster and Cleaner Trading Landscape for 2008
Dan Mathisson, Managing Director of Credit Suisse's Advanced Execution Services, says the trading landscape for 2008 will be cheaper, faster and cleaner than ever before.

The Benefits of Competition
The exchanges' battle for market data revenue should lead to innovation.

This page includes coverage of Wall Street firms—both broker-dealer and asset management firms—data and infrastructure used for trading. It takes an indepth look at the technology and data used to run and populate many of the trading systems on Wall Street. This section also covers the infrastructure that many of the financial exchanges are built on and the data used to run these complex financial marketplaces. This section covers new trends in infrastructure as well as the data used to run many of the exchange’s technology. It also focuses on issues surrounding data latency, which is a major challenge on Wall Street, where every millisecond matters in getting the best price and getting a complete order filled. Stories discuss how firms are collocating servers near the exchanges to reduce data latency. On this section, also resides The TradersGold Book, which offers profiles of head traders from the buy side who discuss the technology—infrastructure and data—they use at their firms. The Gold Book includes podcasts with each of the traders interviewed.


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