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Wall Street & Technology November 26, 2007 Penny Crosman	Derivatives Processing Will Attract More Dollars, Attention in 2008 As OTC derivatives grow increasingly popular, accurate pricing and risk evaluation is more important than ever. Automating derivatives processing can prevent costly mistakes that will be compounded by market turns.
Wall Street & Technology November 23, 2009 Ivy Schmerken	Derivatives Clearing Gives Congress Fits Congress is working on legislation for OTC derivatives reform, but there is still no agreement on mandatory clearing of standardized instruments or on how exotic instruments will be handled.
Wall Street & Technology August 21, 2006 Tim Clark	Affirmative Action A flood of new solutions hits the credit derivatives space in an effort to stem the risk of backlogged paperwork.
Wall Street & Technology February 13, 2007 Ivy Schmerken	Asset Managers Push Custodians to Offer Independent Pricing Services for OTC Derivatives The exponential growth of OTC derivatives is forcing custodians to provide independent valuation services to their institutional clients.
Wall Street & Technology November 18, 2005 Paul Allen	Credit Derivatives Fears The credit derivatives market continues to soar, up nearly 48% in the first six months of the year and 128% over 2004. But such front-office trading success has its back-office price, along with the potential to cause the market to implode.
Wall Street & Technology November 21, 2006	OTC Obstacles Eighty-five percent of respondents to a recent poll claim that data issues are the biggest obstacle to processing OTC derivatives.
Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2007	Thomson Launches New OMS Thomson Financial pulled the curtain off of its new order management system for asset managers and buy-side traders, TradeCentral.
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.
Wall Street & Technology April 22, 2008 Ivy Schmerken	Buy Side Seeks Independent Valuation Providers for OTC Derivatives After Credit Crisis With the credit markets in turmoil over OTC derivatives valuations, buy-side firms are tapping vendors to avoid the conflict of interest inherent in broker-determined prices.
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006	Get Yer Red-Hot Derivatives Here! The derivatives market is heating up, and IT spending on derivatives management will experience a steady increase over the next four years, according to a new study.
Wall Street & Technology May 15, 2006	Derivative Confirms for Buy Side Interwoven launched Scrittura BuySide, a new solution for buy-side firms that automates the incoming confirmations process for over-the-counter derivatives.
Wall Street & Technology June 4, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Credit-Index Trading Takes Off Buy-side interest in two rival credit-derivatives indices is forcing dealers to adopt electronic trading to keep pace.
Wall Street & Technology April 15, 2008 Penny Crosman	Wall Street Project Management Offices Focus on Derivatives The latest trend and challenge for Wall Street's project management offices is the need to push through derivatives automation projects.
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.
Wall Street & Technology January 23, 2007 Matt Nelson	Ask The Expert: Trends Q: What business trend will have the biggest impact on asset managers in 2007, and how will it impact the IT department?... A: As we enter 2007, buy-side firms should be thinking about how they are positioned to support their clients' changing product needs...
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.
BusinessWeek May 27, 2010 Matthew Leising	How Wall Street Gamed Derivatives Reform New legislation likely won't have a major effect on banks that own stakes in trading and clearing firms.
Wall Street & Technology February 14, 2006 Cory Levine	DTCC Hires Derivatives Expert Derivatives processing authority Bill Stenning joined the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC) as VP of business development.
Wall Street & Technology March 25, 2008 Ivy Schmerken	InterContinental Exchange Acquires Yellow Jacket Software to Expand its Electronic Trading of OTC Derivatives Exchanges are moving into OTC derivatives as these instruments become more standardized and can trade on exchange-like electronic platforms.
Wall Street & Technology April 27, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Does Bloomberg Have What It Takes? Portfolio managers say Bloomberg should be a bigger force in electronic bond trading. Can it compete against the dealer-owned systems?
On Wall Street January 1, 2009 Gwen Moran	Do Derivatives Need More Oversight? These securities have gotten a bad rap but new legislation may do more harm than good.
Wall Street & Technology August 22, 2006	CDS Processing Cost to Peak in '06 Despite the high volumes, which are expected to continue to swell, processing costs for CDSs are expected to peak in 2006 at approximately $700 million.
U.S. Banker March 2002 Man Yin Li	Transfer That Risk! With more and more bankruptcies and defaults, many banks can protect themselves with credit derivatives. There are dangers in using them, but if used intelligently, they can be a boon to many banks...
Wall Street & Technology June 22, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Interview A conversation with Robert Gartland, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley, about technology in the financial services industry.
U.S. Banker April 2009 Joseph Rosta	Trade Credit Default Swaps on an Exchange It's time for this vulnerable market to take its vaccine.
Real Estate Portfolio May/Jun 2007 Dees Stribling	The Dawning of Derivatives REIT and real estate derivatives are introduced as a new financial tool in the real estate world.
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.
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.
FDIC FYI March 26, 2003	Derivatives Risk in Commercial Banking Derivatives serve an essential role in the U.S. and world economies but also present certain risks to the deposit insurance funds. This article explains what these risks are and describes how they are managed within commercial banking.
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Greg MacSweeney	Don't Reinvent the Wheel An interview with Philippe Bibi, senior managing director and CTO at Putnam Investments on his plans to add business value in 2006 by developing technology that can automate derivatives transactions and replacing some legacy systems with off-the-shelf solutions.
CFO October 1, 2009 Randy Myers	Boxed In The government's push to standardize over-the-counter derivatives could severely disrupt corporate hedging programs.
Wall Street & Technology March 19, 2007	Finding Liquidity in Derivatives Instruments Is Traders' Biggest Challenge Despite substantial growth in derivatives trading in recent years, much of equity derivatives volume is concentrated in the most-liquid contracts.
Wall Street & Technology February 19, 2008 Cory Levine	Aite Reveals Top 10 Investment Trends The Boston-based research and advisory firm released its top ten securities, investments, and banking technology trends for 2008.
BusinessWeek November 24, 2010 Schmidt & Brush	Will Currency Derivatives Get a Pass on Oversight? Banks want them exempted. Geithner is caught between bankers and regulators on how much oversight to give currency derivatives.
Wall Street & Technology September 18, 2006 Cory Levine	Stephen Andress Hired by Northern Trust In the interest of expanding its presence in the derivatives space, Northern Trust Corp. has hired Stephen Andress to fill the newly created position of global head of derivatives operations.
Wall Street & Technology March 26, 2004 Jim Middlemiss	IT Challenge: Settlement The Challenge: For financial services firms, moving away from batch processing is still a challenge. The DTCC's new inventory-management system offers delivery flexibility and helps firms find efficiencies and increase automation in the settlement process.
HBS Working Knowledge March 20, 2006 Ann Cullen	Unlocking Your Investment Capital Many companies can double or even triple their capacity to invest in strategic assets and competencies by properly managing their risk balance sheet.
Wall Street & Technology September 25, 2007 Melanie Rodier	Market for Global Portfolio Systems to Reach $2.67 billion by 2010 Hedge fund growth, the need for risk controls and the increasing use of derivative instruments across a broader population of investment managers are driving the global portfolio systems market, according to a new report.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Direct-Market-Access Trading The buy side is taking more control of its trading decisions while looking for faster, lower-cost and anonymous executions. Direct market access (DMA) tools permit buy-side traders to access liquidity pools and multiple execution venues directly, without intervention from a broker's trading desk.
Wall Street & Technology October 23, 2006 Ivy Schmerken	Buy-Side OMSs Face the EMS Threat Buy-side firms are beginning to question the future of the traditional order management systems. Should it take on more execution functionality or hand off execution to the execution management systems?
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Financial Planning April 1, 2010 Paul Menchaca	Derivatives Return As much as derivative products have been shunned as 'weapons of mass destruction,' certain derivatives may become more important as investors discover their value as a way of potentially limiting or focusing risk exposure.
Reason February 2004 Callahan & Kaza	In Defense of Derivatives Between Enron, WorldCom, and Global Crossing, the controversial financial instruments have gotten a bad rap. Here's the truth.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Julie Gallagher	Data Latency Market-data latency has gotten much attention on the sell side, but like so many other industry issues, the buy side is just now playing catch-up.
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Wall Street & Technology July 1, 2005 Kerry Massaro	From The Editor: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do Is the relationship coming to an end? Will we be hearing the big "D" word, or is the relationship between financial firms' buy sides and sell sides just maturing and evolving, as all long-standing relationships do?
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