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Moths to a flame
$125, $130, $135... the rise in oil prices shows few signs of abating, and yet the current liquidity and volatility in the energy markets - specifically oil and natural gas - are attractive to any fund or investor wanting to make money. But in the wake…
A northern tale
The wealth management industry has become a happy hunting ground for front-office technology providers who can assist managers in growing their business. When one such vendor deployed its platform to Border Asset Management early last year, it found a…
Future Tech: Mashups Rock
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Spotlight on the sell side
In the world of investment banking, few organisations have achieved the same degree of penetration and trust across the buy side as Credit Suisse. The bank's algorithmic trading suite, known as Advanced Execution Services (AES), is used globally by…
The Magic of Metrics
T Rajah, head of electronic trading and chief information officer at Hong Kong-headquartered CLSA, speaks to IRD about the importance of defining metrics and measuring the success of EDM activities
EvaluatingValuation Risk
Customer demand for evaluated prices is increasing, and with the current turbulent market conditions, the trend is set to continue. The problem now is to ensure independent valuations do not result in increased risk. Carla Mangado reports on how firms…
Off-the-Shelf Life
Asset managers are increasingly looking outside their own walls to automate corporate actions processing. But the selection is extensive and some firms choose not to review a large number of platforms. Tine Thoresen explores the different types of off…
A Measured Approach
The focus on metrics in data management is growing and firms are increasingly measuring the success of their enterprise data management (EDM) strategies. Carla Mangado explores the role of metrics in the industry going forward
Consumers' perceptions and all that
Consumers' perceptions are their realities. That's one of the only marketing concepts I can recall from the marketing and management course I attended back in late nineties (notice how I refrained from using the word 'completed' in the context of that…
The single, integrated front-office suite: Still a pipedream?
Early last month Buy-Side Technology hosted a roundtable in New York on single, integrated front-office platforms for the buy side. On the agenda were issues including the feasibility of such platforms and when the market is likely to see their emergence…
Perfecting the lean and mean approach
Quintillion, a fifteen-month old fund administrator, had some tough technology decisions to make in order to keep the organisation as lean and mean as possible, while simultaneously providing its clients with the types of services typically enjoyed by…