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Wall Street & Technology June 18, 2007 Penny Crosman	Technology Upgrades Improve Derivatives Processing The DTCC, SwapsWire, major broker-dealers and custodians, such as State Street, all are upgrading their technology to bring derivatives processes into the 21st century.
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 17, 2008 Penny Crosman	Markit's Moving Fast Into Derivatives Processing London-based data provider Markit has bought Communicator, Swapswire and BOAT. What's next for this fast-moving derivatives player?
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 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 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 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.
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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 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 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 September 22, 2007 Melanie Rodier	Omgeo Board Adds Michael Bodson Bodson, executive managing director for business management, strategy and marketing for The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. has joined the Omgeo board of managers.
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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.
Wall Street & Technology November 17, 2008 Penny Crosman	Credit Suisse, Goldman and Major Broker-Dealers Are Building a Margin Messaging System Fifteen of the 16 major broker/dealers have been quietly working to build an automated framework for collateral. The group plans to roll out a messaging system for margin calls early next year.
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Wall Street & Technology February 19, 2008 Cory Levine	Weather Derivatives Traders Get Starter Kit Three service providers have teamed together to create the Weather Derivatives Starter Kit, combining their offerings to provide derivatives traders with a suite of services designed to enhance weather trading operations.
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.
Bank Systems & Technology October 23, 2008 Peggy Bresnick Kendler	J.P. Morgan Signs on for DTCC's Loan/SERV to Automate Syndicated Loan Services J.P. Morgan has signed on for The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation's Loan/SERV and will begin using the new suite of services to automate and streamline the processing of their syndicated commercial loans.
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Wall Street & Technology April 11, 2008 Ivy Schmerken	Putnam Investments Sees Competitive Advantage in Building OTC Derivatives Pricing Engine In-House To verify prices from brokers and other outside sources, Putnam Investments developed an internal OTC derivatives valuation engine using grid computing.
CFO October 1, 2009 Randy Myers	Boxed In The government's push to standardize over-the-counter derivatives could severely disrupt corporate hedging programs.
U.S. Banker August 2001 John Hackett	Credit Derivatives Hit a Snag After years of booming growth, the market in these hedging tools dropped in the first quarter, but the consensus is that they're too good to keep down. Includes statistics on the biggest bank participants.
Wall Street & Technology March 14, 2008 Cory Levine	Reuters Delivers New Derivatives Pricing Service The new offering is part of Reuters' overall strategy to speed up the valuation process for complex instruments.
Wall Street & Technology September 18, 2006 Cory Levine	JPMorgan's Kerry Williams Leaves for SwapsWire SwapsWire, the derivatives straight-through-processing system owned by a consortium of dealers, appointed Kerry Williams CTO as part of a recent expansion of its technology team.
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Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 Brett Lancaster	Wringing the Risk Out of Corporate Actions The vice president of Global Corporate Actions, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) asserts that the global financial services industry recognizes the need to bring greater harmony and reduced risk to corporate actions processing, which will also advance the goal of straight-through processing.
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