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The Race to Lay the Golden Copy Egg
By building a golden source security master, firms can realize cost savings through reductions in data management issues fuelled by improved data quality, say BusinessEdge Solutions' Rachel Haines and Jignesh Prajapati. Here, they outline the best…
R&R 2.0: Summer Getaways
COVER STORY
NASDAQ Leads the Way
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MiFID High Tide
REGULATION
CDSes Go Electronic
DERIVATIVES TRADING
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Cisco Rocks the Infrastructure
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Stocks on eBay
EXCHANGES
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Summer Fun?
THE DALY CLOSE
French fund administrator rolls out Capstone Minerva
Natixis Investor Servicing (NIS), a French fund administrator and provider of middle- and back-office services to the asset management industry, has gone live with Capstone Minerva, the flagship order management system (OMS) from Fidessa LatentZero.
Corporate firefighters – Joel Clark looks at enterprise data management initiatives on the buy side and concludes that firms’ approaches to managing data is more reactive than proactive due to spiralling costs and debilitating time frames.
As buy-side firms trade increasingly complex instruments and new regulations demand stronger evidence of best execution, it seems a natural time to streamline the processes governing the management of data across the organisation. But as Joel Clark…
Hammer Time – Joel Clark plots the rise in popularity of internet-based auction platforms for the securities lending industry and explains the transparency and competition benefits offered by such systems.
Securities lending represents a growing part of the over-the-counter market, allowing investors to make short-term loans of their securities to generate revenues from their portfolios. Automation is a strong trend in the market, with several technology…
Brokers under pressure to provide more multi-asset tools
Demand for integrated, multi-asset trading front-ends is growing on the buy side as asset managers seek returns from an increasingly wide range of asset classes. The brokers who best address this need stand to gain a significant advantage over their…
Viteos boards Credit Suisse's ASP bandwagon
Viteos Fund Services, a Somerset, NJ-based provider of middle-office, accounting and administration services, has partnered with the prime brokerage division of Credit Suisse to deliver its services to the bank's hedge fund clients.
Bain Capital rolls out ClariFI's ModelStation
Bain Capital, the Boston-based private investment firm with $40 billion under management, has deployed ModelStation, a strategy simulation platform developed by NY-based vendor ClariFI.
Beachy keen
BST Columnist Phil Albinus prepares for his August vacation by taking a tongue-in-cheek look at a number of buy-side technology issues likely to be addressed in the second half of 2007, including preparing Mifid ‘alibis’ in anticipation of your firm’s…