Risk Management, Performance & Reporting
Technology spending to drop 5% during 2009
Ongoing challenges impacting financial market participants is likely to drive down technology spending at buy-side firms even though they are being spurred by regulators and investors to enhance their enterprise-wide risk management and transparency…
Truly Going Global
Anyone trying to predict the future of exchange evolution should be familiar with the standard industry boilerplate: Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. With that said, however, it's an amazing time to watch these new global exchange…
Head in the clouds
By the time the glasses were raised and the soup was served at last month's Buy-Side Technology Awards lunch, I don't think I was alone in sensing a slight air of tension in the dining room of London's Lanesborough hotel. That wasn't because of the…
McDonnell IM switches to ASP version of Eagle system
McDonnell Investment Management, a Chicago-based fixed-income manager with approximately $12 billion under management, has switched from an installed version of Eagle Investment Systems' accounting platform to the vendor's hosted offering, Eagle Access,…
Stifling "innovation"
Now that the adults are set to retake charge of the US federal government next January, the likelihood of more substantive regulation of the financial services industry has become all the more probable, even though we still have only vague notions of…
Splicing Succes
Merging two firms is never easy, especially in today's less-than-optimal financial environment. DWT reporter Oksana Poltavets sits down with Cynthia Zeltwanger, global COO of Newedge, to discuss the integration of Société Générale's Fimat Group and…
HSBC Aims to Achieve Global Platform ROI
LONDON-In 2009, HSBC expects to reach a "harmonization" phase in terms of return on investment (ROI) from a multi-year investment in a standard global IT platform, according to bank officials.
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Information, Information, Information
Dilip Kumar and Michelle Warra suggest how to improve data quality
Coming to the Crunch
Current market conditions have put an increased focus on risk, and risk managers may have different needs than data managers. To reduce risk, there is a strong need to combine reference and market data and derived data. What capability do data management…
Southern, Data Management
Data management in southern Europe has yet to gain the focus and attention it requires to step up to the next level. But despite development still being at an early stage, there is a will to move ahead. Carla Mangado explores the approach to data…
Interactive hedging
A low-inflation environment and an ageing population proved to be a fatal combination for pure-play bond and equity portfolios - the returns expected by corporate investors simply did not materialise. And so the days of target-based long portfolios have…
The hedge fund bubble
Now that the numbers have come in, it's safe to say that most of us have had better Septembers. By many accounts, worries among hedge fund managers that their investors would opt for redemptions in the face of uglier and uglier market conditions appear…
Spotlight on Jon Anderson
No stranger to the finer points of derivatives trading and processing, Jon Anderson has left New York-based hedge fund manager BlueMountain Capital Management to serve as global head of OTC derivatives at fund administrator GlobeOp Financial Services. He…