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XBRL: The Corporate Actions Solution?
The much-discussed data tagging standard, extensible business reporting language (XBRL), is increasingly referred to as an upcoming turning point for the corporate actions industry, helping to standardize announcements at the source level. Carla Mangado…
Dark diligence
“Who do you trust?” As that question gains pertinence among buy-side managers, aspects of their relationships with broker-dealers have come under scrutiny. In the midst of sell-side upheavals and ongoing volatility, buy-side traders might presume to find…
Going wholly hosted
MFC Global Investment Management, the investment management arm of Canadian financial services firm Manulife Financial Corporation, recently faced a challenge familiar to many buy-side managers with global infrastructures: moving operations scattered…
Drastic Cutbacks
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The Costs of Change
Since the UK's Financial Services Authority recently published a consultation paper on liquidity risk, the topic has appeared on the agenda at industry events. But market participants are concerned about tight deadlines and costly implementations. Carla…
Baptism of fire
Counterparty risk has historically been an issue mostly for sell-side institutions to address, but the collapse of Lehman Brothers laid that notion to rest. Now, investment managers have had to get up to speed on what risks their counterparty exposures…
Compliance 2009: Who's pulling the strings?
Compliance, like risk management, has traditionally been seen as a business process that curtails portfolio managers’ ability to generate returns. But this has changed to the point that now managers see compliance as a way of winning mandates. By Victor…
A product of participation
One of the greatest challenges facing South African financial institutions relates to the cost of their technology, especially when it comes to buying applications from foreign vendors by virtue of the weak rand compared to the dollar and sterling. But…
Fund managers gear up down south
The South African investment management industry is small compared with those of the US East Coast and Western Europe. But as Victor Anderson reports, a small industry does not necessarily imply an unsophisticated one.
Balancing Act
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Managing Counterparty and Settlement Risk In Real Time
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Burgundy Readies for May Launch
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A New Dawn for Data Governance?
The data management world has long been addressing the data governance problem. Yet, firms continue to adopt erroneous approaches or avoid the issue altogether. Carla Mangado explores how the current economic environment will push firms to give data…
Long-distance infrastructure
For New York-based global hedge fund and investment firm Marathon Asset Management, best-of-breed and off-the-shelf became mutually exclusive concepts early in its development. After identifying a number of crucial advantages in developing proprietary…
Registration redux
For months now, hedge fund industry participants have anticipated greater regulatoryinvolvement by the US government. But while no concrete regulatory requirement yet exists for hedge funds, proposed rules pushing for hedge fund registration under the…
Weaving It All Together
If there is one misunderstood technology in the market today, it has to be complex event processing (CEP). Due to the bespoke nature of the environments in which CEP engines are deployed, it's hard to get objective performance benchmark numbers without…
Cloudy concept, clear gains
In an industry beset by acronyms, ‘cloud computing’ has become the latest buzzword and it is yet to be fully understood, let alone implemented, across the buy side. The term means different things to different firms, but it varies subtly to the ASP and…
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