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Market events are a reality. With the right timing, they can mean unique, profitable trading positions. With the wrong timing, they can mean missed opportunities.
 
However, it’s more than just timing and accurate data that give traders the ability to harvest those events. Often, these opportunities come down to strategic decisions, smart teamwork, and flexible collaboration.

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Swap Execution Facilities are game-changers. We knew that.
 
What we didn’t know is how unprepared the industry feels about the arrival of SEFs and regulation dust-settling. In a recent IPC questionnaire surveying the front-, middle-, and back-office, 62% of participating firms said they were not prepared. A number magnified by 36% who said they didn’t even have a plan in place for when the impending SEF-storm does hit.

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It has more turrets than all but a handful of the world’s largest trading floors. It is supported by the most advanced technology available using nearly 19 miles of high-speed cable to link all its components. And it allows the world’s biggest banks to have the utmost confidence in the performance and reliability of their own trading communications technology.

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A Turret/Dealerboard system is a powerful communication tool with specific capabilities designed to meet the demanding needs of Financial Traders.  It needs to function flawlessly in an environment that is intolerable to failures and any obstacle to increasing revenue.  . 

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Aqueducts were a literal life-force for cities in the ancient Roman Empire, delivering an integral source of sanitation and hydration. A symbol of utility, that the citizens only noticed when it stopped working, they also exemplified the mastery of concrete and marble – created by the progenitors of modern architectural design up until the development of steel. In fact, many of these aqueducts still stand, structurally intact.

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Despite uncertainties in the market and a shifting regulatory environment, the overwhelming majority of capital markets firms say they will increase technology investment in 2013 according to a survey IPC recently conducted.

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Regulation.

The little word, that’s done a lot to the capital markets industry. It’s also a word that has changed the nature of how financial markets participants communicate, report and trade. The trade lifecycle now involves more participants – not only because of the need for more transparency – but firms, both on the buy and sell sides need to continue to differentiate their services to remain competitive.

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If you were asked to name the financial powerhouses of North America, you will no doubt cite the Big Apple and the Windy City. But there are two other cities that are leading financial centers in their own right and appear to be poised for explosive growth – Toronto and Boston.

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The lights were bright; the panelists were eager to spar; and the audience was hostile (not really, but we did stand between them and the refreshments) at the recent FISD Real-Time Technology Roundtable held in Chicago where IPC was one of the sponsors. The objective of our panel was to discuss various perspectives on the topic of achieving, if not improving, the ability for firms to identify alpha capture opportunities given an array of strategies which require increasingly sophisticated – and expensive – technical architectures. Yes, I know it’s a mouthful, but this was our plan, nonetheless.

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History is full of examples of crises triggered by unregulated derivatives trading, with the global financial crisis putting the spotlight on the serious inadequacies of the OTC derivatives market and the risks these contracts present to the broader economy. To mitigate this risk, regulatory initiatives, spearheaded by the G20, are now in place to change how they are traded and cleared.

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