Profile of Phil Albinus

Contributing Editor Member Since: 5/8/2014
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Phil Albinus is the former editor-in-chief of Advanced Trading. He has nearly two decades of journalism experience and has been covering financial technology and regulation for nine years. Before joining Advanced Trading, he served as editor of Waters, a monthly trade journal that analyzed the challenges of the CIO for sell side, buy side firms and exchanges. He has moderated countless briefings, webinars and industry panels. He has a Bachelor of Arts in English from the State University of New York at New Paltz and lives with his wife and three children in Ossining, NY. Follow him in Twitter at @philalbinus

SS&C Acquires Gravity Financial

9/28/2012
The Canton, Mass. fund administrator will add 40 clients to SS&C.

University of California Berkeley Joins Numerix Academic Partnership Program

9/21/2012
One of the Advanced Trading Top Quant Schools will integrate Numerix software into its Undergraduate-Finance Program.

How Are Algos Tested?

9/18/2012
Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Dan Nachtman describes the firm's testing procedure for a new algorithm.

Can Buy-Side Traders Trust Their Brokers' Algos?

9/18/2012
In light of the Knight Capital disaster, buy-side traders have to ask if their broker algorithms are safe -- before they blow up the market.

Hedge Fund Manager Hosts Romney Fund Raiser, Caligula-Like Parties

9/18/2012
The co-chief of Sun Capital not only hosted the Mitt Romney fundraiser where the candidate lambasted the 47% of Americans who do not pay taxes, he inspires headlines like "Nude Frolic in Tycoon's Pool."

How to Save a Wounded Market from Rogue Algos

9/18/2012
You couldn't ask for a better example in the Knight Capital debacle of how quickly today's fast markets can claim a victim. Will this be the last of the rogue algorithms to hit the markets?

Who Owns The Risk If A Third-Party Algo Goes Rogue?

9/14/2012
What happens after a broker-dealer or sell-side firm's algo goes rogue? To find out who owns the risk, Advanced Trading spoke with Michael E. Kurzrok, director of equities for the market research firm Woodbine Associates.

Ask a Broker: Should I Trust Your Algos?

9/13/2012
After Knight Capital's newest algorithm went rogue, buy side traders have to wonder about the safety and due diligence around their third-party algorithms. Advanced Trading interviewed a broker-dealer - anonymously, of course - on how traders can trust the safety of their trading formulas.

State Street Global Advisors Appoints Greg Ehret to Global COO

9/12/2012
The newly created role combines sales, product, marketing and operations functions.

Flextrade Delivers Analytics Via NYSE Technologies

9/12/2012
The exchange will offer market data clients access to the FlexEdge Predictive Analytics Solution.

9/11 - Eleven Years On

9/11/2012
Is this the same Wall Street that moved heaven and Earth to get back to work and trade another day?

Hedge Fund Association Deepens Directors Bench

9/10/2012

Mark Cuban Admits Being "Terrified of High Frequency Trading"

9/7/2012
The owner of the Dallas Mavericks doesn’t doubt that another Flash Crash will happen - and he's hedging his portfolio for that moment.

Nomura, Insider Trading and Buying Politicians: Advanced Trading's Week in Review

9/7/2012
Summer is over and it's time to get serious, especially on Wall Street and in Washington, D.C. This week we hear from luminaries in the financial services arena who touch on fraud, regulation and how to keep a large global investment firm from imploding. We also hear about whether an organization that represents banks in America will get involved in buying -- or rather, influencing -- politicians. As the saying goes, money goes to money.

Facebook Shares to Flood the Market?

9/5/2012