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May 11, 2010
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Markopolos Writes Book; Tells of Plan to Kill Madoff
March 01, 2010 @ 11:28 AM | By Ivy Schmerken
Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos, appeared on CNBC this morning to talk about his new book, “No One Would Listen: A Financial Thriller,” even admitting that he had a plan to kill Madoff.
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What's the Future of Climate Change and Carbon Trading?
February 25, 2010 @ 12:05 PM | By Ivy Schmerken
With the Obama Administration focusing on passing health care legislation as its No. 1 priority and financial services overhaul as its second goal, the future of climate change legislation and carbon trading looks uncertain, at least for 2010.
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No Word On the Options Symbology Conversion
February 18, 2010 @ 11:24 AM | By Ivy Schmerken
I didn’t see the Options Symbology Initiative landing on the front page of the Wall Street Journal or other media outlets. Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 was the big deadline for eliminating the old OPRA five-character codes and phasing in the new 21-character descriptions.
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Sell-Side Equity Technology Gets Smarter in 2010
January 06, 2010 @ 04:35 PM | By Ivy Schmerken
Sell-side heads of equity technology are looking to consolidate their data centers into fewer locations, but not give up space, reports Kevin McPartland, senior analyst at , who posted a video on Youtube.
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What's New In Market Data?
October 21, 2009 @ 11:31 AM | By Ivy Schmerken
While the SEC is meeting today to discuss the lack of transparency in U.S. dark pools, there are other initiatives going on that will provide more visibility into prices and address fragmentation. Two projects worth mentioning involve Canadian equities and options data.
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BlackRock To Build Global Trading Platform for Buy-Side Clients
September 16, 2009 @ 11:31 AM | By Ivy Schmerken
The Financial Times reported this week that BlackRock is planning to build a global trading platform that will reduce costs for institutional investors by buying and selling shares internally rather than relying on Wall Street firms.
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Oliver Stone Revisits Greed in Wall Street 2
September 09, 2009 @ 11:00 AM | By Ivy Schmerken
Greed is back and though it was bad for Wall Street in causing the financial meltdown, it’s good for New York’s film economy. Filming on the movie Wall Street 2 due to begin next week in Manhattan.
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Federal Bureau of Prisons Refutes Madoff Has Cancer
August 26, 2009 @ 10:34 AM | By Ivy Schmerken
The Federal Bureau of Prisons told the New York Times DealBook that convicted fraudster Bernard Madoff doesn't have cancer and is not dying from the disease, according to the blog.
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Is Bernie Madoff Dying from Cancer?
August 25, 2009 @ 07:43 AM | By Ivy Schmerken
The New York Post reported that Bernard Madoff is dying of cancer in prison, according to unnamed sources in the article.
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Victim Discloses Extramarital Affair With Bernie Madoff
August 14, 2009 @ 10:43 AM | By Ivy Schmerken
New revelations emerging in the Madoff scandal show how personal relationships and conflicts of interest may have played a role in one charity’s investment decisions and led to its victimization in the world’s largest Ponzi scheme.
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Blodget-Spitzer Interview: Who Destroyed Wall Street?
August 10, 2009 @ 11:44 PM | By Ivy Schmerken
Henry Blodget, the former top Merrill Lynch securities analyst who hosts TechTicker, interviewed his nemesis, former Gov. Ellot Spitzer, the man who destroyed his Wall Street career.
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New Financial News and Data Site Aspires to Outdo Google and Yahoo! Finance
August 12, 2008 @ 11:31 PM | By Ivy Schmerken
Watch out Google and Yahoo!Finance A 21-year old programmer contacted me about Streetread.com, a new financial Web site he developed that automatically aggregates the latest headlines from over 20 of the leading financial news sites. Users can also enter the ticker symbols of stocks they follow.
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Mark Palmer of StreamBase Responds to CEP Article
May 28, 2008 @ 03:38 PM | By Ivy Schmerken
Mark Palmer, President and COO of StreamBase Systems, wrote a blog, "CEP Myths: Mature or Not?",responding to my story on complex event processing (CEP).
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Can Wall Street Learn to Sustain Cost Reduction?
April 14, 2008 @ 01:49 PM | By Ivy Schmerken
I had lunch with Bob Gach, global managing director capital markets at Accenture, last week. We chatted about a number of topics but one of the most interesting was Wall Street ‘s quest for sustainable cost reduction. With the current U.S. economic downturn, investment banks are looking to cut costs but they are also looking to sustain the IT operating model through bull and bear markets without going through dramatic swings. Now that we might be in a recession, the idea is to manage IT efficiently and holistically across the organization rather than cutting costs in one department vs. another. To learn more about how to achieve sustainable cost reduction, please click here.
Comments(1)BREAKING NEWS: Thomson Plans to Spin Off TradeWeb
October 10, 2007 @ 02:45 PM | By Ivy Schmerken
Thomson Financial announced today that nine of Wall Street's leading bond dealers are investing about $180 million to purchase a minority stake in TradeWeb, the electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities and derivatives. TradeWeb will continue to be owned by Thomson and the consortium of broker dealers. The goal of the strategic partnership is to drive TradeWeb's expanson into multi-asset class trading and to create more of a unified platform with integrated processing for the trading of fixed-income, equities and derviatives, according to the release.
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