Will Dolan, head of Fidelity unit ActionsXchange, said he's seeing an increased desire among clients to outsource more of their processes, a trend that has been underway for some time but which is now gaining pace.

ISITC has announced the results of its annual member survey exploring the recent progress of the financial services industry and focuses for 2014. 

Market participants say investment in post-trade systems to handle increased volume in cleared derivatives is a priority.

Flows into ETFs and ETPs listed globally rebounded in February gathering net inflows of US$29.0 billion which, when combined with the positive market performance in the month, pushed assets in the global ETF/ETP industry to a new record high of US$2.44 trillion, according to preliminary findings from ETFGI’s February Global ETF and ETP industry insights report.

The operating highlights reinforce the strength of the group’s post-trade value proposition and underscore the support of its global client franchise in an increasingly regulated yet dynamic market landscape.

New TABB Research says evolving storage strategies for speed, scalability and sophistication of analytical output must accommodate higher data performance requirements

In new Data and Analytics research published, “Capital Markets Data Storage: Strategic Imperatives for a New Computing Era,” TABB Group explores solutions to help constrained capital markets firms follow secular trends in computing while balancing needs against costs at a time when components of big data-like phenomena are infiltrating global capital markets. 

E. Paul Rowady, Jr. - Senior Analyst

Point-based risk and regulatory optimization efforts will need to go beyond one-off project efforts. Efforts must transition to a state where coordinated optimization across the ecosystem's chain of activities can be done on a business-as-usual basis.

Mike Franklin, Chief Investment Strategist at Beaufort Securities said, 'Wall Street is disinclined to give up on the latest rally – up 5.6% since the 4th February. Despite the confusion created by freak weather conditions, US investors appear to want to believe that their economy is stronger than the recent data suggest. The outlook for inflation and interest rates is benign for a few months yet.

“In a currency union, the financial markets can sometimes be blind to default risks carried by individual countries”, explain Professor Bodo Herzog and Johannes Müller in the latest White Paper from the Global Financial Institute at Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management.

Deutsche Bank released its twelfth annual Alternative Investor Survey, which stands as one of the largest and longest standing hedge fund investor surveys available. This year over 400 investor entities participated.