Trading & Risk Technology

So much for “praise in public and reprimand in private.” A teacher publicly reprimanding a student who launches a spitball in class demonstrates to everyone the consequences of certain behavior. Regulators’ handling of the 2008 financial crisis and this year’s scandals among UBS, MF Global and others had to be as public as they were [...]

Risk management is at the heart of what capital markets firms do, according to Kenan Maciel, director of New York-based consultancy Lab49. And looming regulatory requirements and technological advances make it more important than ever. Maciel spoke during a Waters Technology Risk and Compliance webcast on Wednesday. After some discussion of Basel III and Dodd-Frank, [...]

A more widespread adoption of Legal Entity Identifiers could have changed the outcome of the 2008 financial crisis, according to an Inside Reference Data webcast on Tuesday. But the major players were not using these proverbial data fingerprints, so no one could be sure exactly what types of financial products they had bought and sold, [...]

Gaining insight into business performance and market dynamics means analyzing both structured and unstructured data. Sybase’s Joseph W. Shaffner (pictured) will discuss modern enterprise systems that provide these capabilities in his Thursday workshop “Trends in Big Data Analytics: Next Generation Enterprise Data Warehousing, Predictive Analytics and NoSQL” at DAMA Day 2011. New technologies make the [...]

Complex Event Processing is a big picture technology, yet so much discussion about it gets stalled by details and lost in the weeds. This week, Sybase’s Neil McGovern will demonstrate how capital markets firms use CEP across the trade life cycle. His presentation will include intra-day analytics, risk aggregation and continuous intelligence. McGovern will make [...]

Though many investment banks handle structured data with aplomb, unstructured information is not so easy. But they can stem this growing concern if they update their technology and approach, according to Sybase’s Irfan Khan. Easily queried information in the form of, say, columns and rows makes it a breeze to search structured data v. unstructured [...]

Many people this time of year battle tangled strands of Christmas lights in hopes of lighting their homes with the holiday spirit. And many capital markets firms spent the year trying to sort the jumble of business intelligence buzzwords in hopes of enlightening their offices with the right technology. Sybase’s David Wiseman will address the [...]

Big Data problems and solutions will be the big topics of a roundtable discussion Tuesday at the Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit in London, and Sybase’s Irfan Khan will be one of the people participating. Khan and experts from Microsoft, IBM and Attivio will join a European technology editor for Bloomberg News for “Making Sense of [...]

“Most fraud is still discovered after it has occurred,” writes Sybase’s David Wiseman about retrospection and other issues confronting fraud detection. “Fortunately, new and emerging advanced analytics technologies and techniques can help mitigate these problems.” Wiseman’s recent article in Waters Technology describes characteristics of a cutting-edge fraud detection system, such as analyzing myriad data types [...]

Before any pick-up game as a kid — or now for that matter — we always set up the rules. The more complex the game, the longer everyone must wait to play. But participants in the capital markets cannot suspend their work, starting with the 2008 financial meltdown and ending who-knows-when, as Dodd-Frank, Basel III [...]