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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 January 24, 2006 Jessica Pallay	The Buy Side Buys In In 2006, it will be impossible to ignore the enhanced productivity gained from algorithmic trading systems. As the buy side takes control of its own trading processes, automated trading frees up humans to focus on more-complex trading decisions.
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 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 September 23, 2007 Penny Crosman	Can Financial Models Prevent CDO Problems? Computerized financial models help fund managers at Barclays, Mitsubishi and Point Clear make better decisions.
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.
Wall Street & Technology April 14, 2006 Ivy Schmerken	Trading Off the News Seeking to make algorithmic trading even more predictive and less reactive, Wall Street brokerage houses and quant shops are examining real-time news as a feed for their trading models.
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Wall Street & Technology November 29, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Want an Algorithm With That? Major brokerage houses are franchising their algorithmic trading strategies to smaller firms that are feeling pressure to offer the service.
The Motley Fool July 29, 2010 Mac Greer	How Wall Street's Quants Lost Billions and Lived to Tell About It Author Scott Patterson talks about his book, The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It.
Wall Street & Technology July 1, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	The New Sell-Side Trader: Execution Consultant Brokers are morphing into execution consultants to advise the buy side on selecting algorithms and measuring performance. But how will the sell side reinvent the institutional sales trader?
Wall Street & Technology July 17, 2006	Instinet CTO Michael Bundy Focuses On Smaller, More Agile IT Development Teams CTO Michael Bundy assigns small teams of IT developers to work on new algorithmic trading technology and to create new platforms for credit derivatives, futures and options products.
Wall Street & Technology June 22, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Algorithmic Alliances Buy-side firms take a page from the broker-dealers' book, paying to use their algorithmic-trading strategies via partnerships with order-management systems.
U.S. Banker June 2007 Rebecca Sausner	Real Estate Futures Gain Momentum In the U.S. Seven investment banks have licensed the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries' Index.
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?
Wall Street & Technology September 18, 2006 Cory Levine	Selling the Strategy: The Sell Side Finds an Edge in the Algorithm Marketplace by Being Quick and Collaborative Sell-side firms jockeying for position and order flow with algorithmic products are finding that high-end customization and first-mover advantage are playing considerable roles in their clients' decision-making process.
The Motley Fool November 14, 2011 Travis Hoium	Behind the Scenes of the Market: Derivatives and Risk How risk is calculated and the way derivatives are really traded.
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.
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 July 1, 2005 Kerry Massaro	Dear CIO... Lehman Brothers' chief operations and technology officer and executive vice president talks about buy side pre-trade analytics and transaction cost analysis and its relationship with the sell side.
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Erico Guizzo	The Trading Test A big-time financial firm is recruiting tech talent by offering prizes to the college kids whose software chooses the best investments.
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.
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.
BusinessWeek April 18, 2005 Mara Der Hovanesian	Cracking The Street's New Math Algorithmic trades are sweeping the stock market. But how secure are they?
Wall Street & Technology June 29, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Reinventing the Relationship Technology and regulatory scrutiny have placed pressure on the buy-side traders to figure out how much it is paying for executions.
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.
Salon.com February 5, 2002 Damien Cave	Risky business How did Enron break into the elite Wall Street world of credit derivatives?
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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...
CFO September 1, 2003 Hilary Rosenberg	Compromising Positions Will credit derivatives encourage more lending, or will they harm the interests of borrowers?
Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2004 Larry Tabb	Data Providers Face Identity Crisis Plagued by declining revenues, the financial data providers seem to be between a rock and a hard place -- hamstrung by increasing competition, an aging infrastructure, an ever-increasing amount of content, and a customer base that wants to pay less.
BusinessWeek February 18, 2010 James Pressley	How Quants Made a Killing -- and Made a Mess Scott Patterson's new book The Quants shows how these market players can be done in by becoming overextended as the markets turn.
Knowledge@Wharton February 12, 2003	The Changing Use of Derivatives: More Hedging, Less Speculation High-risk gambles like those that torpedoed Orange County, Gibson and P&G are far less likely than conservative plays meant to hedge against loss in underlying markets such as energy, commodities or currencies.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Algorithmic Trading Buy-side firms are gravitating toward rules-based systems that are often supplied by brokers. These mathematical models analyze every quote and trade in the stock market, identify liquidity opportunities and turn that information into intelligent trading decisions.
Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2007 Greg MacSweeney	Searching for Talent New evidence suggests that the existing U.S. educational system will not be able to produce the IT talent that financial organizations require, forcing firms to take on a lot of the training, and the costs, themselves.
Bank Systems & Technology January 29, 2005 Travers & Tyrie	Monitoring Credit Rising consumer debt levels in many countries have led to concerns about deteriorating credit quality. To mitigate their exposure, leading banks are employing sophisticated analytical techniques to improve underwriting, while also managing risk better through the use of credit derivatives.
Bank Technology News April 2009 Rebecca Sausner	Toss The Models Out The Window Peter Cotton, equipped with a PhD in math from Stanford, believes his better mousetrap can get things back on track.
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 January 5, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Brokers Bang on OMS Doors In the race to get their algorithms online and accessible to institutional customers, many brokers are eager to put their logos on the desktops of order-management systems (OMS).
BusinessWeek October 7, 2009 Levisohn & Scott	The Side Effects of Financial Reform Proposed rules aimed at curbing Wall Street abuses may crimp corporate earnings and returns for investors, too.
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Wall Street & Technology June 4, 2004 Robert M. Hegarty	The Next Wave: Innovation It's been a long time comin', but the Securities industry has reengaged, with some very innovative technologies, products and even services as its launching pad.
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.
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.
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