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Wall Street & Technology February 14, 2006 Larry Tabb	Aggregation: Back to the Future With only two or three trading venues, aggregation is not very interesting. However, with the existence of three major execution venues, and another six or seven regionals and ECNs, in conjunction with an empowered SEC focused on best execution, and now you have a horse race.
Bank Technology News September 2004 Michael Sisk	Trading: Direct Execution Goes Mainstream The need to offer direct execution is all the greater now that the New York Stock Exchange is pushing ahead with it's Direct Plus program.
Wall Street & Technology July 1, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	The New Sell-Side Trader: Execution Consultant Brokers are morphing into execution consultants to advise the buy side on selecting algorithms and measuring performance. But how will the sell side reinvent the institutional sales trader?
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Direct-Market-Access Trading The buy side is taking more control of its trading decisions while looking for faster, lower-cost and anonymous executions. Direct market access (DMA) tools permit buy-side traders to access liquidity pools and multiple execution venues directly, without intervention from a broker's trading desk.
Wall Street & Technology September 23, 2005 Larry Tabb	To Have and to Hold Should financial firms spend money either to build or acquire client-facing front ends? Or, do firms stay front-end agnostic, partnering with a few select platforms for greater integration, but allow all others to connect via a FIX connection?
Wall Street & Technology July 26, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	The Buy Side Takes Charge Access to aggregators, crossing networks and algorithms is changing the buy-side trading desk.
Bank Technology News November 2004 Shane Kite	Trading: Direct Execution Players Get Beefy Banks and brokers are stocking up on tech and management tools, bundling direct access with algorithmic trading, as the industry gets more competitive than ever.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Larry Tabb	Risk in a Real-Time World The world is getting riskier. Not only has geopolitical strife changed compliance risk, but new trading, governance and capital-allocation mechanisms are changing traditional risk measures as well.
Wall Street & Technology June 21, 2004	Algo-Trading Meets Direct Access As buy-side firms take more control over executing orders, there is an increasing interest in algorithmic-trading strategies combined with direct-access trading platforms.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Algorithmic Trading Buy-side firms are gravitating toward rules-based systems that are often supplied by brokers. These mathematical models analyze every quote and trade in the stock market, identify liquidity opportunities and turn that information into intelligent trading decisions.
Wall Street & Technology October 24, 2007 Larry Tabb	Larry Tabb Predicts Financial Trends for 2008 Financial industry trends that will become more significant throughout the coming year.
Wall Street & Technology November 29, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Want an Algorithm With That? Major brokerage houses are franchising their algorithmic trading strategies to smaller firms that are feeling pressure to offer the service.
Wall Street & Technology June 29, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Reinventing the Relationship Technology and regulatory scrutiny have placed pressure on the buy-side traders to figure out how much it is paying for executions.
Wall Street & Technology June 22, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Algorithmic Alliances Buy-side firms take a page from the broker-dealers' book, paying to use their algorithmic-trading strategies via partnerships with order-management systems.
Wall Street & Technology October 23, 2006 Ivy Schmerken	Buy-Side OMSs Face the EMS Threat Buy-side firms are beginning to question the future of the traditional order management systems. Should it take on more execution functionality or hand off execution to the execution management systems?
Wall Street & Technology November 17, 2003 Ivy Schmerken	Cleared for Takeoff Clearing firms are rolling out execution services with order-routing and direct-access partners.
Wall Street & Technology March 26, 2004 Larry Tabb	NYSE: Fast Market or No Market? If the NYSE becomes more electronic, its owners (the specialists and floor brokers) will be disadvantaged, and possibly jobless.
Wall Street & Technology April 26, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Broker Research: What's It Worth? The securities industry is hoping that the SEC will clear up the uncertainties surrounding soft dollars and determine once and for all who is responsible for placing a value on proprietary research.
Wall Street & Technology March 22, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Black-Box Trading Raises Risk As black-box trading increases, hedge funds are executing orders at a rapid pace by drawing on their credit relationships with prime brokers.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Pre-Trade Analysis Brokers are developing pre-trade analytics in connection with their algorithms to help buy-side customers determine the best algorithms to use.
Wall Street & Technology March 26, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	New Kids on the Block Two new players are offering block-execution systems to buy-side institutions. Can they succeed in a crowded field?
Wall Street & Technology April 14, 2008 Larry Tabb	Opportunities Beckon Amid Economic Turmoil A shaky economy and the defibrillation of many fixed-income products provide fertile ground for automated trading, fixed-income ECNs and exchanges - as well as opportunities for those willing to take some calculated risk.
Wall Street & Technology February 21, 2007 Ivy Schmerken	Brokers Back CSAs to Help Buy Side Achieve Best Execution and Pay Research Providers In search of best execution, buy-side firms tap brokers' new commission-sharing arrangements to pay for valuable research.
Wall Street & Technology August 17, 2007 Richard Jones	Broker-Neutral OMS/EMS Solution Can Address Rapid Change In Investment Industry The investment industry is experiencing an increasingly rapid pace of change in both the asset classes under management and the way in which they are traded.
Wall Street & Technology February 12, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Changing the Rules of the Game A change in the trade-through rule now on the SEC's agenda could lead to more direct-access and smart order-routing tools.
Wall Street & Technology April 15, 2008 Cory Levine	Quod Releases Solution for Buy-Side Execution Management Advanced Smart-Order Router uses the algorithms in Quod's sell-side solution to bring new levels of routing capabilities to the buy side, the vendor says.
Wall Street & Technology August 22, 2006 Larry Tabb	Switching a Back-Office Relationship Is Very Hard For financial firms, while the front office is eminently more glamorous and lucrative, switching front-office providers is easy. Switching a clearing, custody or depository relationship, however, is very hard.
Wall Street & Technology August 22, 2007 Ivy Schmerken	Goldman Sachs and Other Brokers Develop Alternative Research Platforms to Advise Buy-Side As the buy-side unbundles the cost of research and executions, brokers are partnering with alternative research providers. Could it cannibalize their own proprietary research?
BusinessWeek April 18, 2005 Mara Der Hovanesian	Cracking The Street's New Math Algorithmic trades are sweeping the stock market. But how secure are they?
Wall Street & Technology June 22, 2004 Larry Tabb	Providing Service in an Increasingly Electronic World The way in which brokers traditionally manage their relationships with the buy side needs to change.
Wall Street & Technology May 25, 2005 Larry Tabb	No Touching: Algo Trading Leaps Forward The leaders in the no-touch market are significantly ahead. They have the resources to push the technology out into the market and the support teams to train, customize and drive adoption (while at the same time, buy-side firms are reducing their broker ranks).
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Maria Santos	Bringing in Business Attracting hedge funds as customers is a priority this year for the majority of sell-side firms. As hedge funds approach $1 trillion in assets, these non-traditional investment vehicles have become the latest buy-side heavyweight.
Wall Street & Technology March 21, 2006 Larry Tabb	Reg NMS: A Pox on All Your Houses The SEC's Reg NMS will significantly alter the way the markets and the industry as a whole operate. Instead of the market consolidation we have seen over the past few years, we are seeing a market fragmentation, as regional exchanges retool and ECNs proliferate.
Wall Street & Technology July 1, 2005 Kerry Massaro	From The Editor: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do Is the relationship coming to an end? Will we be hearing the big "D" word, or is the relationship between financial firms' buy sides and sell sides just maturing and evolving, as all long-standing relationships do?
Wall Street & Technology January 4, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Get With the Program Sell-side desks are giving their buy-side clients access to program-trading tools so they can slice and dice large blocks and measure transaction costs.
The Motley Fool March 30, 2010 Dan Caplinger	The Best Way to Buy Stocks Is one broker really that much better than another?
Wall Street & Technology February 27, 2005 Larry Tabb	The NYSE Floor: A Question of Control What is it about the floor - the history, the frenzy, the money, the legacy? Whatever it is, the NYSE floor, as it stands today, is under threat - and not just from dissatisfied institutional investors, but also from market restructuring proposals
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Greg MacSweeney	Flush Firms Eye Acquisitions After posting record profits in 2005, many financial services firms are looking to acquire smaller players with unique business lines and/or financial products, or to bolster their technology.
Wall Street & Technology November 29, 2004 Larry Tabb	What's the Value of Data? Market data not only comes from aggregators and exchanges; firms are becoming more active in the data market as they try to reduce latency and enhance their direct-to-customer technology offerings.
Wall Street & Technology October 23, 2007 Ivy Schmerken	Connectivity Booms in Emerging Markets As demand for investing in emerging and frontier markets picks up, buy- and sell-side firms are hunting for networks and trading systems that allow them to operate in foreign markets without necessarily being experts in the local rules themselves.
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Wall Street & Technology February 27, 2005 Paul Allen	Hedge Fund Services Heat Up "In my view, prime brokers and [hedge] fund administrators will increasingly find themselves competing in the same space in terms of the services they can offer," says Rob Schultz, head of HSBC's alternative fund services for North America.
Wall Street & Technology April 11, 2008 Cory Levine	Options Traders Lack TCA Tools The structure of the options market has prevented the adoption of transaction cost analysis tools that are now commonplace in equity trading, according to TABB Group.
Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Brokers Bang on OMS Doors In the race to get their algorithms online and accessible to institutional customers, many brokers are eager to put their logos on the desktops of order-management systems (OMS).
On Wall Street December 1, 2009 Mark Astarita	Brokers as Fiduciaries -- Much Ado About Nothing There is a battle cry to place a fiduciary obligation on retail brokers. But the real question is: What difference will it really make?
Registered Rep. March 1, 2007 Christopher O'Leary	Meet the New Davids Smaller clearing houses have an advantage in that they promise to keep out of any business that would directly challenge its client's own products and to stick to a core set of services that includes securities lending, custody/clearing and order-management systems.
Wall Street & Technology April 27, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Hedging the Risk of Instant Messaging While hedge funds enjoy the simplicity of trading via IM networks, compliance and reliability concerns have them seeking IM products with built-in archival systems.
The Motley Fool August 30, 2010 Dan Caplinger	Who You Trade With Does Matter It's easy to think that one broker fits all, but nothing could be further from the truth. Take the time to get to know your brokerage options. Only then will you have the knowledge base to make your best choice.
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