Market Data
196 white papers and resources
Market Data
Blockchain Potential in Financial Services - Video Highlights
This animated video provides highlights from an exclusive survey from WatersTechnology, in association with SmartStream. It surveyed a diverse mix of personnel and aimed to assess the industry’s state of readiness around blockchain and to identify the significant challenges to adoption still at…
Unfinished Business - Measuring Blockchain’s Financial Services Benefits and Mapping Its Future
This white paper examines the results of a recent survey conducted by WatersTechnology in association with SmartStream. It aimed to assess the industry’s state of readiness around DLTs and to identify the significant challenges to adoption still at hand.
Building a Scalable, Auditable Valuation and Pricing Process - How automation can reduce risk and improve controls in month-end pricing and valuation
This white paper explores the dangers and hidden risks of performing critical calculations with customized spreadsheets. It further examines how organisations can increase automation to reduce risk, and improve controls in a strategic way.
Putting Data Analytics to Work in Energy Trading
This paper will look at trading across the energy spectrum, a few of the key prerequisites of a successful energy trading company today in the current high-stakes, time-sensitive environment and how one can best utilise data analytics to make sense of everything.
The Importance of Real-Time Forward Curves - Leveraging Technological Advances to Manage Risk
This white paper examines the importance of real-time forward curves. It further explores potential solutions that will aid traders, analysts and risk managers in addressing their needs for real-time and easy-to-use price curve tools.
The Business Case for Managing End User Computing
This white paper examines why end user computing (EUC) applications exist in modern businesses, exploring the issues of risk, reputation and cost overheads. It further considers the returns to be gained by implementing formal approaches to the management of EUC, including the use of…
Blockchain—Next Steps on a Journey
How will today’s market infrastructure and data processing providers react to ledgers—the very innovation that, some evangelists say, could ultimately subsume them? This white paper explores the latest developments.
The evolving relationship between finance and risk
Increased regulatory requirements that are expanding the necessity for chief financial officers to be proficient in regulations and advanced big data analytics have seen the relationship with chief risk officers develop to facilitate co-operation as never before. This white paper explores the…
Optimising Data Lakes for Financial Services: Four key questions and a word of warning
This white paper explores key data lake questions and proposes a number of ways to tackle the implementation challenges. It goes on to further examine different ways you can optimise the data lake to ensure it fulfils its desired function.
The fair value of defaultable bonds and bank loans - a practitioners’ guide
This white paper deals with the pricing of defaultable assets, whether corporate bonds or bank loans, in terms of theoretical and practical issues alike.