Recently added articles from Securities Industry News:
Prime Time for "Mid-Prime" How FBR Plans to Mine the Middle of the Prime Brokerage Market.(Case Study)
Nov 16, 2009 ... Byline: Carol E. Curtis After the collapse of Lehman Bros. and economic fall-out last year, hedge funds and asset managers immediately reassessed their prime brokerage relationships and began to seek out firms with the strongest balance sheets, such as J.P. Morgan., Credit ...
Manual Market: Swapping Electrons for Paper, in Credit Default Contracts Paper Plain: Default Pacts Resisting Electronics.(Echanges)
Nov 16, 2009 ... Byline: Shane Kite Dealer opposition, trader ambivalence and regulatory uncertainty are keeping credit default swaps (CDS) from trading electronically in the U.S., according to top executives at platforms which allow screen-based execution of such contracts. Dealers ...
Putting Clothes on Naked Access.(Last Word)
Nov 16, 2009 ... Byline: Ted Myerson It's an understatement to say that high-frequency trading, supported by sponsored access, has impacted the structure of the market and affected the way traders, brokers and exchanges do business. Today we typically see speeds of thousands of orders ...
Phase Finds Itself A High Frequency Trading Tool.(Special Report)
Nov 16, 2009 ... Byline: Alexa Jaworski In summer of 2007, investment manager PhaseCapital was seeking a complex event processing solution for implementing several latency-sensitive components of its proprietary execution management system. The Boston-based firm, which manages a ...
$10 Billion Question: What to Do Since Failing is Still An Option in U.S. Treasury Market.(Operations)
Nov 16, 2009 ... Byline: Chris Kentouris About $10 billion of Treasury bonds weren't delivered by their sellers to the buyers of the securities-in the second week of October. That figure, released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, represents less than five percent of the $416 ...