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Wall Street & Technology March 22, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	FX Market Adopts E-Trading Platforms Sixty percent of the $621 billion inter-dealer market for global spot foreign exchange is traded electronically and that figure will increase to 90 percent in 2007, according to Celent Communications.
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Wall Street & Technology April 30, 2007 Ivy Schmerken	Unexpected Surge in Trading Volumes and Volatility Raises Infrastructure Concerns for Hedge Funds The market decline of Feb. 27 has prompted hedge funds to rethink their trading infrastructures to ensure they can cope with higher volumes and volatility.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Maria Santos	Bringing in Business Attracting hedge funds as customers is a priority this year for the majority of sell-side firms. As hedge funds approach $1 trillion in assets, these non-traditional investment vehicles have become the latest buy-side heavyweight.
Wall Street & Technology February 27, 2005 Paul Allen	Hedge Fund Services Heat Up "In my view, prime brokers and [hedge] fund administrators will increasingly find themselves competing in the same space in terms of the services they can offer," says Rob Schultz, head of HSBC's alternative fund services for North America.
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Wall Street & Technology February 12, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Buy Side Bets on Bond Platforms Buy-side customers expect TradeWeb and MarketAxess to compete head on in 2004, while both try to solve their STP woes.
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Wall Street & Technology April 26, 2007	Superderivatives Launches SD-Funds, an Online Multi-Asset Derivatives Platform Designed for hedge fund and asset managers, the platform includes all pre-trade and post-trade activities covering all asset and derivatives classes.
Bank Systems & Technology July 1, 2005 Phil Britt	Trading In the Ether Tepid worldwide equity markets and expansion of international trade have spurred growth in all forms of financial exchange fueling a greater need for, and development of, electronic trading technologies for financial services companies offering foreign exchange services.
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The Motley Fool June 2, 2006 John Finneran	Hedge Fund Wizards Money managers cast spells over the market -- and reap huge rewards. Hedge funds operate in a haze. Penetrating how they earn returns and take risks is tough, but is a good exercise for investors.
Wall Street & Technology April 14, 2008 Larry Tabb	Opportunities Beckon Amid Economic Turmoil A shaky economy and the defibrillation of many fixed-income products provide fertile ground for automated trading, fixed-income ECNs and exchanges - as well as opportunities for those willing to take some calculated risk.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Larry Tabb	Risk in a Real-Time World The world is getting riskier. Not only has geopolitical strife changed compliance risk, but new trading, governance and capital-allocation mechanisms are changing traditional risk measures as well.
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BusinessWeek July 9, 2007 Roben Farzad	The Street's Next Big Scandal Are traders and hedge funds colluding to profit from privileged information?
Wall Street & Technology June 22, 2004 Larry Tabb	Providing Service in an Increasingly Electronic World The way in which brokers traditionally manage their relationships with the buy side needs to change.
Bank Technology News November 2004 Shane Kite	Trading: Direct Execution Players Get Beefy Banks and brokers are stocking up on tech and management tools, bundling direct access with algorithmic trading, as the industry gets more competitive than ever.
Registered Rep. March 16, 2006 John Churchill	Bear Stearns Fined $250 Million for Securities Fraud The SEC's investigation found that from 1999 through September 2003, the firm provided technology, advice and deceptive devices that helped market timers and late traders evade the firm's own systems as well as those of mutual funds.
BusinessWeek March 12, 2007 Matthew Goldstein	Homing In On Trading Abuses Do allegations that a UBS worker sold info to hedge funds signal a growing problem?
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Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2005 Maria Santos	The Cost of Compliance The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has come under scrutiny again following the adoption of a recent rule regarding hedge funds.
Wall Street & Technology April 26, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Broker Research: What's It Worth? The securities industry is hoping that the SEC will clear up the uncertainties surrounding soft dollars and determine once and for all who is responsible for placing a value on proprietary research.
Wall Street & Technology April 11, 2008 Cory Levine	Hedge Funds Say Technology Is Critical to Business Hedge funds are focusing their technology efforts on improving automation around OTC derivatives, as well as adding collateral management technology and exerting better control over prime brokerage charges and rates, according to a new Aite survey.
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Paul Allen	Trading Gets Exotic As the search for higher returns and diversification has sparked a surge in alternative investments, financial firms are working to establish a technology infrastructure capable of managing an acceptable balance between risk and reward.
The Motley Fool September 27, 2006 Alex Dumortier	Lessons From Amaranth There's a lot to learn from the hedge fund's prodigious collapse. Amaranth's stunning demonstration of the speed with which a hedge fund can come undone will certainly have cooled investor enthusiasm for other such offerings.
Bank Technology News April 2005 Shane Kite	Trading: Algorithms Headed for New Frontiers Advanced matrices for equity transactions are being applied to other financial instruments, such as options, futures and foreign exchange.
Wall Street & Technology March 19, 2007 Paul Allen	Many Firms Lack the Processing Infrastructure to Support Growth in Alternative Investments On Wall Street, the great demand for sources of alpha have fueled innovation in instrument development and front-office trading strategies, but automation challenges and data management problems must be addressed.
The Motley Fool July 25, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer	The Investment Banking Business: Money Management These days, investment banks do much more than just investment banking. In addition to traditional asset management they're getting involved in hedge funds and private equity.
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Wall Street & Technology March 22, 2005 Kerry Massaro	Taking Risks Credit risk management hasn't been a hot topic in the securities industry since the fall of Enron.
Knowledge@Wharton February 26, 2003	The Perils of Hedge Fund Regulation Hedge fund products are increasingly available to a broader audience than previously had access to this asset class. A barrage of news reports focused on hedge fund fraud and blowups raises the idea that regulation might provide a useful fix. So should hedge funds be regulated? No.
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 Dwyer & Thornton	Mutual Funds Feel The Heat Did they feed information to hedge funds, brokers, and others?
Wall Street & Technology March 14, 2008 Melanie Rodier	SIFMA Survey Shows Electronic Trading Extremely Popular in Europe Greater efficiency and reduced costs drive growth of e-trading among European hedge funds and asset managers.
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Registered Rep. October 1, 2004 Mindy Diamond	Prospects Grim for Wirehouse Brokers with Hybrid Books of Business Hybrid brokers -- those with both retail and midmarket institutional accounts-- at wirehouses might soon be a thing of the past, but that doesn't mean those with this business model have no options.
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Wall Street & Technology March 2, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Survival of the Fittest Trading Models A hedge fund run by Harvard Ph.D.s is building trading models drawing on evolutionary concepts, like survival of the fittest.
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Registered Rep. March 1, 2006 David Weiss	Living with Reg SHO The new regulation opened up the possibility of completing a short sale without worrying if it complied with the uptick or bid test, and put into affect rules requiring greater effort on the part of brokers and other participants in the securities industry to ensure that short sales were covered.
Wall Street & Technology February 14, 2006	Hedgies Open Their Wallets A new survey finding reflects the large camp of hedge fund managers that believes new SEC registration rules are only the first step in a broader regulatory framework envisioned by the SEC.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2003 Alexander M. Ineichen	Debunking the Myths that Dog Hedge Funds Probably because hedge fund managers have gotten fabulously wealthy and are secretive (guiltily so), a body of untruths has sprung up. Of course, much of it is built on anecdotal evidence, oversimplification, myopia or simple misrepresentation of fact.
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Registered Rep. August 17, 2005 Kevin Burke	NASD Tightens Noose on Hedge Fund Sales Practices A top National Association of Security Dealers official said on Wednesday that the regulatory agency has launched an investigation into brokers selling hedge funds to individual investors without alerting them to the potential risks.
Bank Technology News February 1, 2008 John Adams	Foreign Exchange: Big Banks Have a Yen to Offer Retail, Web-based Forex Citigroup will launch CitiFX Pro, a Web-based foreign exchange platform aimed at individual and smaller institutional investors.
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