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Middleware, an appreciation….

on December 30, 2014

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Regulation SCI: A primer...

on December 30, 2014

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Innovation, leadership and management

on December 27, 2014

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Fixed Income Trading: New venues ( How many Fixed Income trading venues are there? )

on December 27, 2014

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Google, robots.txt and the “Search for Liquidity”: Fixed Income edition

on December 27, 2014

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Fixed Income Trading: Buy-side desk of the near future?

on December 20, 2014

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Vendor relationship management and "Orphan Technology" - what next?

on December 15, 2014

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Internet of Things vs Fintech: FIGHT!

on December 10, 2014

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TCA for Fixed Income in a new trading venue world

on December 05, 2014

Buy-Side Analytics exchange trading https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys https://www.linkedin.com/company/alignment-systems TCA trading

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FIIDL - FIX Interactive Interface Definition Language (part three)

on November 06, 2014

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Excel VBA – does it have a future?

on November 05, 2014

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COM and .net, FIX and ITCH/OUCH

on November 05, 2014

FIX FIXP https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys https://www.linkedin.com/company/alignment-systems ITCH/OUCH Microsoft

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ETFs, liquidity profile and valuation issues

on November 03, 2014

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Quantitative easing and the future of corporate bond trading

on October 27, 2014

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Excel RTD Server implementation in C#......Part 2

on October 26, 2014

C# Excel geek https://github.com/AlignmentSystems https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys https://www.linkedin.com/company/alignment-systems Microsoft RTD Excel

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Buy versus build, a false dichotomy

on October 25, 2014

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Excel RTD Server implementation in C#......Part 1

on October 25, 2014

C# Excel https://github.com/AlignmentSystems https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys https://www.linkedin.com/company/alignment-systems Microsoft RTD Excel

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Excel 32bit and 64bit usage, what you don’t read on the internet part II

on October 16, 2014

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Project Neptune, MTFs, SEFs, the central limit order book for corporate bonds and the loch ness monster

on October 15, 2014

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Market data terminals, past, present and future…

on October 01, 2014

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ASX plus Yieldbroker equals???

on September 23, 2014

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Excel 32bit and 64bit usage, what you don’t read on the internet

on September 17, 2014

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Geeky interlude, Apple Mac edition

on June 29, 2014

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Bootstrapping, FIIDL and the mesh exchange

on June 23, 2014

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Google, robots.txt and the “Search for Liquidity”

on June 09, 2014

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Excel RTD Server implementation in C#......Part 1

on May 27, 2014

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FIIDL - FIX Interactive Interface Definition Language (part two)

on May 07, 2014

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FIIDL - FIX Interactive Interface Definition Language

on April 28, 2014

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FIIDL - FIX Interactive Interface Definition Language

on April 28, 2014

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Cannibalism and Creative Destruction

on April 22, 2014

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What does it cost to run a buy-side OMS and EMS environment?

on March 24, 2014

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What is the real-money, buy-side OMS market worth?

on March 23, 2014

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The OEMS, dead-end or an idea before it’s time?

on March 06, 2014

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What's the difference between an EMS and an OMS?

on March 05, 2014

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The buy-side OMS, an appreciation part one...

on March 03, 2014

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Fixed Income Trading: New venues ( How many Fixed Income trading venues are there? )

How many Fixed Income trading venues are there? [183] Last update 11th November 2023] A simple question came up recently in a conversation – how many new Fixed Income trading venues are there? I could not think of anywhere that maintained a comprehensive list, so I decided to try and put something together. A global list of Fixed Income Trading Venues with a change log

The market data product that the global financial services industry really wants....

On a number of projects I have had to work with numerous datasets.

Excel RTD Server implementation in C#......Part 1

I have not written much C# recently but I've had two conversations recently on the topic of RTD Server implementations so I thought I'd try and refresh my memory.

What's the difference between an EMS and an OMS?

Suggestion: it’s directional, asset-class and/or execution style related… If you got here from google - try also OMS and EMS

Middleware, an appreciation….

Throughout my working life the role of middleware has played a crucial part. For many people it’s something of a dark art that is not well understood. This post will set out a description of some use cases, some solutions offered by middleware, a taxonomy of different types of middleware and a forward looking analysis.

Windows equivalent of UNIX "touch" command

A fairly standard operation in *nix world is the command touch. Touch changes file dates, so it's an easy way to kick off backup jobs or similar that use file modification times. Windows doesn't have an exact analogue, but a functionally similar feature exists within PowerShell.

Banks and Car companies

Readers of this blog will probably be aware of the author's love of an analogy, technology, finance and cars.

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