Are You Really Ready for Real-Time Pre-Trade Risk Checks?

In a little over a week, all SEC-regulated brokers in the US will need to preform pre-trade risk and capital checks for clients for whom they provide sponsored market access. Sell-Side Technology sits down with industry veteran Bill Karsh to discuss how prepared the industry is as well as the state of the available custom and third-party offerings.

Dodd-Frank's Brave New World

I recently had a chance to catch up with Tabb Group's Kevin McPartland in his firm's office overlooking lower Manhattan. We took the opportunity to discuss how prepared the swaps industry is for life under Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act now that US regulators expect to have the rules complete in the next five months. You can listen to the entire conversation at Sell-Side Technology.

Automating Dodd-Frank

After a few weeks of hiatus, I'm pleased that we've posted another Financial Tech Talk audio interview on the  Sell-Side Technology website.

In this first part of two-part interview with industry veteran Ciaran Henry, we sit down and discuss how firms are coping with Dodd Frank's real-time and intra-day reporting requirements for OTC trading.

Please check back for when we post the second part of the interview, in which we look at how firms can leverage their existing low-latency trading infrastructure for this new electronically traded market.

UPDATE: We've posted the second portion of the audiocast here.

Reducing Latency via UX Design

Earlier this month, we launched a new series of audiocasts over at Sell-Side Technology, dubbed Financial Tech Talk. It's been a fun learning how to produce and host these online conversations with industry insiders about the IT issues facing the investment banking community.

This week, we posted a 30-minute conversation with visual data interface designer Brad Paley on how to firms can convey far more visual data and reduce "human latency" by implement elements of psycholinguistics in their user experience (UX) design. We will be posting additional audiocasts as the weeks go by, so please check back.