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Traders Magazine Ready to Unveil New Website and Look

The new website features a more contemporary look and feel, utilizing a more graphics-driven interface and reorganization of existing and additional content.

Operational Use of Advanced Analytics Set to Grow 180%, Alt Data by 70% in Next Three Years

This comprehensive study revealed explosive growth is anticipated in the use of advanced analytics and alternative data over the next three years but firms need to keep pace.

Alternative Data and Advanced Analytics: Table Stakes for Unsecured Personal Loans

A new Aite Group report finds that 72% of lenders with significant unsecured personal loan portfolios use alternative data or credit scores.

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Demystifying Dodd-Frank

Commissioner Scott O'Malia of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is on a mission. He says the process of writing new over-the-counter derivative contract rules needs more transparency. Over the past year he has repeatedly called for more roundtables and public comment on how rules are written. Why is this important? Because these rules, among other things, will determine which OTC derivative contracts must go through a clearing process and which ones can continue to use the old bilateral, dealer-to-dealer model.

New Blood

Fresh-faced yet experienced graduates are entering investment firms in strong numbers. Traders looks at this crop of bright young things and the new skills and placing new demands on the buyside.

The New Topic

Some unintended consequences from the credit crisis of 2008 and the regulations that followed have come to light. Also, buyside firms are gathering their traders to rate the research and execution services from the sellside in relentlessly thorough scoring sessions.

A Clear Answer on HFT

High-frequency traders and supporters claim that HFT is helpful to the equity market. The data presents a starkly different story.

Better Data Emerges After Rules Battle

Once the fight for new regulations settled down, an unintended victor has emerged: the data and data systems used by today's traders.

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?

Over the past year, the liquidity in emerging currencies grew in fits and starts quarter to quarter. Traders asked FX veterans for their outlook on the next 12 months.