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Try Before You Buy: Firms, Vendors Employ Proofs of Concept

Technology vendors were once loath to give away their ideas for free. Financial service firms were similarly unwilling to invest in a project that might...

Waters | Feature | Operations | 27 Jan 2012

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Outsourcing Data Quality

As firms come under pressure to deliver high-quality data on limited budgets, outsourcing is becoming increasingly popular. Tine Thoresen explores how outsourcing strategies can be used as part of data quality programs

Inside Reference Data | Feature | Business Continuity & Outsourcing | 02 Sep 2010

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Getting your data (ware)house in order

Up-to-date, accurate and verified benchmark data is becoming more and more important to asset managers. With tightened budgets and cost efficiencies to consider, outsourcing data provision and management can work to asset managers’ advantage. By Stephen...

Waters | Feature | Business Continuity & Outsourcing | 19 Aug 2010

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IBM: Operational Challenges and Risk Concerns Still to the Fore Post-Crisis

Industry regulators and financial services executives still cannot rest easy as they continue to grapple with the operational challenges and risk concerns introduced on the back of the two-year capital markets downturn. These are some of the findings...

Waters | Feature | Operations | 19 Aug 2010

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Secrets and Lies: Preventing Security Breaches

On April 19, Samarth Agrawal, a former quant and trader in the high-frequency trading group at Société Générale in New York, was arrested and charged with stealing some of the bank’s most valuable proprietary computer code. The case follows similar...

Waters | Feature | Operations | 16 Jul 2010

Progressive embraces business continuity challenge

Business continuity rose to prominence in the wake of the September 11 attacks, as firms of all sizes sought to develop contingency plans as a way of mitigating the business and operational risks resulting from systems failures. By Victor Anderson*...

Buy-Side Technology | Feature | Buy-Side Operations | 01 Feb 2010

Perfect Partners

The hosted services model is not a new phenomenon to the financial services industry. But during these testing times it has become more relevant to buy side firms offering managers the benefits of fixed IT costs, reduced time to market for new applications,...

Buy-Side Technology | Feature | Business Continuity & Outsourcing | 01 Jul 2009

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...

Buy-Side Technology | Feature | Business Continuity & Outsourcing | 09 Feb 2009

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

Having a tightly integrated infrastructure could make it harder to split up a company in tough times, and, like it or not, silos are here to stay. By Emily Fraser

Waters | Feature | Business Continuity & Outsourcing | 01 Oct 2008

There's No Place Like Home

That technology and infrastructure outsourcing has staked permanent ground on the buy side is no longer disputable. Depending on particular managers' circumstances, the business model proves either essential to keep operations viable or the best option...

Buy-Side Technology | Feature | Business Continuity & Outsourcing | 01 Oct 2006

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