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Plimsoll takes Aegis EMS for enhanced forex trading

Plimsoll Capital, a New Jersey -based hedge fund manager trading in foreign exchange and structured product instruments, has implemented Aegis Software's AthenaTrader execution management system for its newly developed forex trading program, Armada.

Fund administrators move to the middle office

The continued move by hedge funds into the OTC derivatives market has placed significant pressure on their back offices in terms of processing, scalability, and general automation. This has led to a number of funds outsourcing their fund administration,…

Sticking point – Feature. Joel Clark looks at the state of play regarding the post-trade processing of credit derivatives on the buy side, and concludes that, although significant recent efforts have been made by vendors and consortiums in this space, tru

Even though straight-through processing (STP) has been a reality for equities and fixed-income trading for some time, automating the back-office processing of credit derivatives remains as elusive as ever. Joel Clark reports on the success of recent back…

Marked to mayhem. Stewart Eisenhart takes a fresh look at the perennially challenging issues of pricing and valuations on the buy side, arguing that these functions have become all the more crucial to fund managers in the wake of the US sub-prime mortgage

Hitting bottom is never pleasant. Credit market participants – buy side and otherwise – are finding that out as the US sub-prime mortgage sector continues its wholly predictable but no less dramatic collapse. Volatility has skyrocketed, liquidity is…

Fulcrum goes live with SD-Revaluation for pricing

Fulcrum, a Bermuda-based hedge fund administrator with operations in Canada and London, has cont-racted SuperDerivatives to supply independent OTC options and credit derivatives pricing through the ven-dor's SD-Revaluation service.

Business standards time

Imagine that tomorrow there were no traffic laws. No speed limits, no need to signal for your turns, no right of way and no reason to stop you from drinking and driving. For our readers in New York, let's abolish the 'conceal and carry' laws for handguns…

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