Reports & Briefings

FX Trading Solution Boosted For CEP - Oct 2008
Wall Street Systems, a trading solutions provider, has enhanced its foreign exchange (FX) trading solution with Aleri complex event processing (CEP) technology to provide real-time FX position management for its highest volume clients.
Virtual Roundtable CEP And The Race Against Latency - Oct 2008

Why is low latency so important to capital markets firms?

Sinan Baskan, Sybase: The pace of securities trading and the dynamics of market pricing have progressed to such a point that very rapid and small price movements in securities have a high correlation on profit and loss. This happens from the trade book all the way to the balance sheet of the firm. Also, price volatility of assets and correlations across asset classes provide very valuable, time-critical signals on financial risks and liquidity and capital allocations. Low latency is essential to capture and render visible this data to analytical applications so that trading and portfolio decisions can be made within the very short, critical time spans.
Inside the Rush - Oct 2008

What happens when latency and complex events collide. By Phil Albinus
Editor's Letter: A Simpler Time - Oct 2008
Who knew that when Waters began reporting on complex event processing (CEP) for this special report, things would get so complex?
The Means Behind the Green - Feb 2008
How serious are investment firms in their march toward energy-lean operations? Waters sat down with Adam Vile, head of grid and high-performance computing at Excelian, for some straight talk on reducing energy output in the back office. By Phil Albinus
Firms are pursuing green IT strategies - Feb 2008
Firms are pursuing green IT strategies like never before but new ideas bring new challenges. Does a more energy-efficient approach to the back office mean any improvements on the trading floor? By Phil Albinus
EPA Ranks Fortune 500 for Green Power Use - Feb 2008
Three wholesale financial services firms ranked among the top 50 for the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Green Power Partnership Fortune 500 Challenge. Companies in the Fortune 500 were ranked in order of their commitment to using alternative sources of power, including wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and biogas-generated electricity.
Users Demand More Efficient Hardware - Feb 2008
Pushed by clients struggling with surging power costs, hardware providers seek to provide ever more energy-efficient servers.
Google Pledges $25 Million in Grants - Feb 2008
Google.org, the philanthropic arm of the Mountain View, Calif.-based Internet search giant, has said it will offer $25 million in new grants and investments to initiatives aimed at combating climate change, poverty and other emerging threats, such as bird flu.
Green Movement Offers Market Opportunities 'Beyond Altruism' - Feb 2008
Altruism may be one motivation behind the green movement, but firms are looking to cut costs, according to the PricewaterhouseCoopers study, Technology Executive Connections: Going Green: Sustainable Growth Strategies.

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