Wall Street news from FierceFinanceIT

The consolidated tape has been a staple of Wall Street since it was launched in 1976. For many years, it was the definitive source of information about trades as close to real-time as possible. But... Read more...

We've discussed on several occasions the rise of machine readable news as an interesting way to incorporate news into the trading process. As the world increasingly embraces the algorithmic approach,... Read more...

At many banks, the chief risk officer is an increasingly strategic executive position. Too much risk could expose the entire firm to financial harm, as the most recent crisis has made clear. Too... Read more...

Tibco Software is well known in the financial services industry for its infrastructure software. More specifically, the firm's "TIB" (which stands for "The Information Bus") technology has long been... Read more...

Back in March, CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler roiled Wall Street when he announced he would put forth a new rule proposal that would regulate co-location services, offered by some exchanges--such as the... Read more...

A recent Fortune column carried a brow-raising headline--"High frequency trading: Why the robots must die." It will seem vaguely Luddite to many, who have grown accustomed to equating technology with... Read more...

The idea that Wall Street road shows will be changed profoundly by the Internet and new technology seems old. We've been talking about it since at least the retail IPO (IPO news) boom--which seemed... Read more...

We're accustomed to thinking of Citigroup in very negative terms. But there is one unit that has weathered the storms very well, and remains integral to the company's success: Its transaction... Read more...

The conventional wisdom as of late has been that the SEC would crack down on so-called naked access or naked sponsored access. The whole idea seemed to fly in the face of reform and market structure... Read more...

For some companies, 2009 was a banner year. For others, it was another tough year, not as bad as 2008 perhaps, but certainly one to forget. So what will 2010 bring? Well, the spending climate in... Read more...