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DTCC and CLS unveil OTC settlement scheme
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and New York-based CLS Bank have jointly launched a central settlement service for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives.
Indian wealth management sector set for rapid growth
As India's economy continues its rapid expansion driving up individual income levels, wealth management providers in the country are poised for substantial growth. Once firms begin taking on additional clients, though, they'll require more advanced…
The hedge vote By Phil Albinus
This is payday for political junkies in the US - we've seen some mildly acrimonious attack ads, fresh faces, candidates who can make history, and others who are clearly deluded if they think they have a chance of getting anywhere near the Oval Office…
A river runs through it
Getting buy-side user-firms to agree to talk about their use of technology and how it enables their business is notoriously difficult, which is why we jumped at the opportunity to speak with three Charles River clients - ING Investment Management,…
VWAP your time is up
With the advent of liquidity fragmentation and the expanding use of cross-asset trading, the global capital markets are undergoing a period of great change. As with the Big Bang of 1986, this change is significant, and will require those who operate in…
Liquidity sourcing tops buy-side business drivers for 2008
The need to capture liquidity sources across fragmented markets will clearly dominate investment managers' operational, strategic, and technology initiatives in the coming year. But along with that objective come issues of having to deal with more…
Administrator takes SuperDerivatives for derivatives pricing
Columbus Avenue Consulting, a New York-based hedge fund administrator with $6.5 billion under administration, has deployed SuperDerivatives' SD-CD credit derivatives pricing and analytics application for more efficient valuations of its clients'…
Brian Sentance
Chief executive officer, Xenomorph Software
CRD announces EMS, enhances architecture and derivatives support
Charles River's IMS is something of a household name on the buy side, combining order management, compliance, and various analytics functions within a single, front-office platform. Now, the Burlington-MA-based vendor is preparing to enter the EMS market…
Exceeding expectations
Performance reports on the buy side are hardly worth the paper they are printed on, unless of course, they are fully GIPS-compliant. Performa is one of a select handful of vendors operating in this space, proving that, in an industry increasingly…
Credit where it's due By Stewart Eisenhart
I'm a little late to the annual game of 'Top 10 (or five) trends for the year ahead', but there's no time like the present. Now that broad indicators of how 2008 will shape up for the financial services industry and for global economies in general have…