Category: Risk

Case-Based Reasoning Eyes Wall Street

Today kicks off the 21st annual International Conference on Case-based Reasoning in Saratoga Springs, NY. The four-day event brings CBR veterans and novices together to discuss research on and applications for the problem solving methodology. Never heard of it? Neither had I, until I spoke with representatives from Verdande Financial Services, one of the conference’s…

Category 2’s Mad Dash to June Finish Line

There are only 33 days left before all the firms that the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) designated as Category-2 entities must central clear the majority of their over-the-counter (OTC) swaps trades and the next four or five weeks and it looks like it will be hellish for more than half of them. Do not…

Alpha Vision Eyes Automated Market Color

Quietly last quarter, execution management system provider Portware launched its Alpha Vision automated algorithmic strategy optimizer platform. So far six yet un-named asset managers, two hedge funds and two pension funds are using the new system to develop and execute trading strategies using third-party trading algorithms available to the respective firms. Once a trader enters…

Will Kill Switches Drive T+0?

The US cash equities market might reach same-day trade guarantees if the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) follows suggestions of the industry working group formed to address to exchange-based kill switches. The working group, which consists of the major self-regulatory organizations (SROs) , leading market makers, The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Depository…