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A-Team Insight Quarterly Issue 8 – Q2 2009

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:57:39 +0000

A-Team IQ talks to SunGard’s Harold Finders and Yassine Brahim about the takeover of GL Trade; what the Oracle-Sun tie up means for the fintech industry; Why Brazil is becoming the offshore location of choice for the European financial sector; following Lehman’s collapse, why knowing your counterparty is essential for risk management; market data platforms [...]

A-Team Insight Quarterly Issue 7 – Q1 2009

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:23:36 +0000

A-Team IQ meets with Niall Cameron, Markit’s man charged with replicating the company’s OTC success in equities; How the credit crunch has put new pressures on market liquidity and brought about new scrutiny; Examining Europe’s fragmented markets with clutch of new MTFs; Risk drives data innovations; Low latency in a flash; Know your exposure; Getting [...]

A-Team Insight Quarterly Issue 6 – Q4 2008

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:26:27 +0000

Get IT right for risk management; Risk analytics rise to the fore; Certification – standard bearers; IT challenges for financial institutions in 2009; Valuations at face value; Case study – HighStep seeks edge in knowledge management; Can commodities ride the credit crunch wave?; The network perspective of low latency; and FX wholesale banking automation… Please Note: [...]

First Word: Welcome Break

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:09:48 +0000

The holidays couldn’t come too soon. What a semester it’s been. Last time around, back in September when we were coming back from summer, we contemplated the onset of change, as MiFID kicked fully in and practitioners were forced to come to terms with the mild irritant that was the Credit Crunch. A sense of ‘Oh [...]

Getting IT Right For Risk Management

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:20:46 +0000

One upside of the down turn is that investment in risk management infrastructure is set to boom in the financial services sector. But it will be about vendors trying to grab a slice of the in-house market, suggests Pete Harris There’s no doubt about it: investment in risk management systems is about to increase substantially over [...]

Risk Analytics Rise to the Fore as the Industry Scrambles for Insight

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:19:59 +0000

We are, we are told, living in risky times – especially in the financial markets. But what exactly is defined as risk, and how do you analyse it? Maryann Houglet offers some views Today, the leading question is how one defines “risk anything.” Based on a quant background, my definition of risk analytics includes systematic methods [...]

Certification: Standard Bearers

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:18:04 +0000

In an industry dripping in standards, why do so many businesses still modify them to fit in with their way of working – and can it be good news in the long term? James Hartley takes a look at what standards really mean This season has seen a flurry of activity on a number of [...]

Running on Empty

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:16:51 +0000

Firms that decide to continue their markets activities will face major IT challenges in 2009. By Andrew P. Delaney Ours is a glamorous business. Last April, standing in line for the bathroom at the back of a too-full, too-small-for-transatlantic plane from London to Newark, courtesy of Continental Airlines, I bumped into a former Bear Stearns IT executive, [...]

Valuations At Face Value

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:16:46 +0000

The valuations business has witnessed a surge of activity this past year, following increased scrutiny of counterparty risk and focus on independent fair value pricing. But with so many new entrants into the market, is there room at the table for all of them? Virginie O’Shea reports It has been a year of rapid entrances and [...]

Case study: HighStep Seeks an Edge with Connotate Knowledge Management

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:15:01 +0000

As Simple as Point and Click? Following robust take up in the U.S., Connotate Technologies is set to unleash its web-based ‘knowledge management’ solution on the European buy-side marketplace. Jason Jones, founder of U.S. hedge fund HighStep, spoke to Virginie O’Shea about his user experience Connotate Technologies was established to provide machine intelligence to understand the elements [...]

Can Commodities Ride the Credit Crunch Wave?

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:12:04 +0000

With equity markets floundering everywhere, can the increasingly automated commodities markets provide a ray of hope? Roger Aitken examines the risks. It’s a risky world out there. So much so that the thrills and spills of the equities markets this year may be pushing institutional investors to turn their backs on the asset class, never to [...]

Low Latency: The Network Perspective

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:11:01 +0000

Low latency has emerged as a key consideration in network design and management. But just what do you have to bear in mind when putting it into practice – particularly when you are limited by the laws of physics? Simon Taylor, Strategic Account Manager at Leeds-based network security and performance company Boxing Orange, offers some [...]

FX Wholesale Banking Automation

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:10:44 +0000

By Tim Shaw, Product Manager at IMX Software Now more than ever, banks are turning inwards to see where they can offer new services and streamline processes. Perhaps surprisingly, opportunities are still to be found within foreign exchange. Whereas many organisations are looking to increase efficiencies when it comes to the bank-to-bank dealing side of foreign [...]

A-Team Insight Quarterly Issue 5 – Q3 2008

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:18:07 +0000

One year on – has Swift’s bold restructuring plan had an impact?; With attention turning to commodities, derivatives and volatility, has Chicago’s moment arrived?; What role does technology play in making M&A activities a success?; Does the growing array of alternative trading venues offer real choice or just a big headache?; Tailoring MiFID to the [...]

A-Team Insight Quarterly Issue 4 – Q2 2008

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:28:14 +0000

A-Team IQ talks to NYSE’s global technology head Larry Leibowitz and TransactTools CEO Sam Johnson about their vision for universal market access; Does outsourced reference data management meet the challenges of tighter cost control?; Downstream data integration; is the ‘investment roadmap’ just another set of standards doomed to failure?; Visualising what’s best for smart order [...]

A-Team Insight Quarterly Issue 3 – Q1 2008

Thu, 01 May 2008 14:37:18 +0000

Turquoise’s Eli Lederman on turning Turquoise from a project into a business; OMS/EMS integration; Regional focus on the Nordics; CIO Interview with T Rajah of CLSA on post-trade infrastructure; Software as a Service (SaaS); Financial regulation – keeping your customer satisfied; The data headache of alternative investment; Inside the complex world of event processing; Making [...]

A-Team Insight Quarterly Issue 2 – Q4 2007

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:51:41 +0000

A-Team IQ interviews Swift’s Lazaro Campos on doing more with the Swift franchise; trading and operations for OTC derivatives; New frontiers for algorithmic trading; Interview with Omgeo CEO Marianne Brown; When will automation take hold for corporate actions?; The rising priority of counterparty data; Regulation – how to dig up the road only once; Regional [...]

A-Team Insight Quarterly Issue 1 – Q3 2007

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:03:02 +0000

Exclusive interview with Reuters CEO Tom Glocer on cusp of Thomson acquisition; The technology roadmap for low latency; Interview with chief data officer John Fleming on secrets of EDM success; what do users think of vendor’s evaluated pricing services?; MiFID versus RegNMS; City guide to Boston for Sibos 2007; Standards – Whither FIX?; Is screen [...]