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Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Peter A. Horowitz	Developments on the Horizon Seven trends that could significantly impact brokerages and their support systems: The Aging of the Investor Class... Cross-Market Competition and Consolidation... Direct Market Access... etc.
Wall Street & Technology November 18, 2005 Larry Tabb	The Sins of the Few The equity research model is not only broken, it is destroyed. In trying to clean up the research process, we have thrown out the baby with the bath water.
Wall Street & Technology June 28, 2005	The Next Big Thing Four analysts predict what shape they believe the future landscape of financial services technology will take.
Wall Street & Technology April 26, 2007	Superderivatives Launches SD-Funds, an Online Multi-Asset Derivatives Platform Designed for hedge fund and asset managers, the platform includes all pre-trade and post-trade activities covering all asset and derivatives classes.
Wall Street & Technology July 26, 2004 Jonathan Beyman	Dear CIO... The author is chief of operations and technology at Lehman Brothers, as well as an executive vice president. In addition, he has served as the firm's CIO since 2000. Read some questions and answers from his point of view.
Wall Street & Technology February 14, 2006 Ivy Schmerken	Brokerage Teams Tackle Reg NMS as Deadline Looms Many financial firms have joined industry committees to make sure that their organizations' interpretations of Regulation National Market System (Reg NMS) are in line with other market participants' views.
Wall Street & Technology June 23, 2007 Ivy Schmerken	Private Equity Firms Fueling the Growth of Electronic Trading Private equity firms are rushing to invest in electronic trading companies and financial technology companies that provide services to hedge funds.
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 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 July 18, 2006 Ivy Schmerken	Amex CIO Prepares to Launch New Hybrid System, AEMI, for Reg NMS CIO Antoine Shagoury is ramping up the process to launch the exchange's new hybrid trading system AEMI to be ready for Reg NMS.
Wall Street & Technology October 24, 2007 Michael Topper	The Repercussion of MiFID and Reg NMS in the U.S. U.S. financial institutions must educate themselves on the difference and similarities between Reg NMS in the States and MiFID in Europe to ensure they know the rules and are able to comply.
Wall Street & Technology June 12, 2007 Melanie Rodier	Wall Street Firms Fine-Tune Reg NMS Compliance, Look Ahead at the Future Most financial firms have been working on boosting their order-routing capabilities and their infrastructure. But now is the time to see whether their systems can efficiently handle the data Reg NMS requires.
Wall Street & Technology May 15, 2006 Cory Levine	An Industry in Denial Reg NMS is set to change the foundation of the securities industry and represents the reality of a major industrywide spend. But on whose shoulders that expense will fall remains largely up in the air.
Wall Street & Technology January 23, 2007 Cory Levine	NYSE Requests a Four-Week Extension of the Reg NMS Deadline Although it has been beaten to death by industry analysts and press, the importance of the changes to the U.S. securities industry spurred by Reg NMS cannot be overstated. The industry anxiously awaits full implementation of the regulation in 2007.
Wall Street & Technology November 26, 2007 Melanie Rodier	Streamlining Global Compliance Globalization continues to be a trend, and financial companies are finding they can't manage current global compliance requirements efficiently.
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Greg MacSweeney	Reg NMS: Hurry Up and Wait An interview with Joe Gawronski, COO at Rosenblatt Securities, on the possibility of a delay in the implementation of both Reg NMS and NYSE's planned hybrid exchange model.
Wall Street & Technology March 14, 2008 Melanie Rodier	SIFMA Survey Shows Electronic Trading Extremely Popular in Europe Greater efficiency and reduced costs drive growth of e-trading among European hedge funds and asset managers.
Wall Street & Technology June 13, 2006 Cory Levine	Indirect Hit Although the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) has yet to fall on the EU, the global nature of the industry demands that U.S. financial firms pay attention to the changes at hand.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Maria Santos	Attracting Order Flow Given the amount of trading activity hedge funds generate, competition for their order flow is heating up.
Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2005 Steve Silberstein	Dear CIO... Question: How will Reg NMS impact broker-dealers?
Wall Street & Technology January 23, 2007	Pondering Liquidity Management The next five years will see a considerable increase in order internalization as market pressures force banking firms to adopt the philosophy of liquidity management in order to stay competitive, a new research note speculates.
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 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 April 22, 2008 Ivy Schmerken	Buy Side Seeks Independent Valuation Providers for OTC Derivatives After Credit Crisis With the credit markets in turmoil over OTC derivatives valuations, buy-side firms are tapping vendors to avoid the conflict of interest inherent in broker-determined prices.
Wall Street & Technology May 30, 2007 Melanie Rodier	Market for Wealth Management Compliance Systems Set to Jump 15% by 2011 Investment advisors are expected to spend the most on technology as they are among the fastest growing and most regulated group of advisors. But hedge funds are also likely to increase IT spending.
Investment Advisor December 2005 Savita Iyer	Transatlantic Teachers Hedge funds are big news in the U.S., but old news in Europe. What can we learn from Europe's approach to hedge funds?
Wall Street & Technology November 29, 2004 Jim Middlemiss	CIO Challenge As hedge funds soar, winning their order flow has become more vital than ever. To compete for that business, brokers and other providers need to offer hedge fund managers wider access to markets and trading products, and break down silos to improve integration.
HBS Working Knowledge February 20, 2006 Ann Cullen	When Hedge Funds Meet Private Equity Seeking greater returns, hedge fund managers are increasing investments in private equity opportunities such as real estate and non-public companies, leading some industry observers to predict a convergence between the two.
Wall Street & Technology October 29, 2008 Penny Crosman	U.S. Hedge Funds to Cut IT Spending 40%, to $882 Million New Tabb study finds hedge funds will make drastic IT cutbacks, although more than 75% want to trade multiple asset classes electronically.
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.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2006 Kristen French	Legg Slims Citi Swap Ranks After Legg Mason and Citigroup closed their asset swap deal on Dec. 1, Legg announced in a regulatory filing with the SEC that it plans to cut some of the employees that came with the swap.
Registered Rep. June 27, 2005 Kristen French	Citi/Legg Deal Strikes Blow at the Heart of Financial Supermarket Concept The recently announced asset swap between Citigroup and Legg Mason could be a sign that the financial supermarket of yore is on its way out, to wit: the separation of asset management and distribution.
Financial Planning December 1, 2008 Suzanne McGee	The Perfect Alternative Is there an asset class for your clients portfolios whose price moves in the opposite direction to that of mainstream investments like stocks and bonds?
Wall Street & Technology January 23, 2007 Jessica Pallay	In the Search of Liquidity: The Time Is Now Now that Reg NMS is finally here, are firms ready to access 30 or more trading venues in their search for liquidity? After a year of investment in technology, firms need to demonstrate that their systems are up to the challenge.
Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2005 Maria Santos	The Cost of Compliance The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has come under scrutiny again following the adoption of a recent rule regarding hedge funds.
Wall Street & Technology November 21, 2006 Cory Levine	Inefficient Efforts: Firms Look to Break Down Their Isolated Compliance Processes Industry solution providers are coming up with new ways to unify compliance efforts across the organization, bringing efficiencies and benefits to the business from widely maligned regulatory mandates.
The Motley Fool July 25, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer	The Investment Banking Business: Money Management These days, investment banks do much more than just investment banking. In addition to traditional asset management they're getting involved in hedge funds and private equity.
Wall Street & Technology November 21, 2006	Electronic Trading Expectations Soften The buy-side trading desk continues to transform itself into a more electronic, automated and self-directed operation, but the spread of electronic trading is slowing, according to TABB Group.
Knowledge@Wharton February 26, 2003	The Perils of Hedge Fund Regulation Hedge fund products are increasingly available to a broader audience than previously had access to this asset class. A barrage of news reports focused on hedge fund fraud and blowups raises the idea that regulation might provide a useful fix. So should hedge funds be regulated? No.
The Motley Fool June 27, 2005 Tom Taulli	Legg Mason's Big Swap With two transactions last week, the firm transformed itself into a pure-play money manager. For stockholders, it probably makes sense to wait before jumping into Legg Mason stock.
Wall Street & Technology February 5, 2007 Ivy Schmerken	The Buy Side Jumps on Board the Push to Automate OTC Derivatives Now that traditional buy-side firms and hedge funds are increasingly investing in credit derivatives, the industry is focusing on automating post-trade processes to reduce operational risk.
Registered Rep. May 1, 2005 Chris O'Leary	Break a Legg With Mason approaching retirement age (he is 68 and has not talked about retiring), and with the company frustrated in its efforts to find suitable acquisitions to keep growing, Legg has become an oft-rumored takeover target.
Bank Technology News April 2004 John Adams	Lending A Hand... To Trading Without One BofA Joins CSFB and Goldman In "Low-Touch" Trading Space Race -- one of the newest frontiers in trading, where thousands of shares of stocks, bonds and other instruments move electronically and a century of Wall Street tradition fades by the day.
Registered Rep. June 1, 2006 Kristen French	Is Legg Mason Suffering Citi Indigestion? Can Legg Mason pull it off? That's what fickle Wall Street investors are wondering lately about the firm's blockbuster asset swap deal with Citigroup, in which Legg exchanged its brokerage unit for Citi's asset management business.
Bank Technology News June 2005 Glen Fest	Irreconcilable Differences? When Jerry Putnam used to describe the New York Stock Exchange and its practices, the CEO of Archipelago Holdings was prone to using words like monopolistic, blackball and pathology.
The Motley Fool March 24, 2008 Sham Gad	An Introduction to Asset Management Some pointers to help you choose the right path for your investments.
Registered Rep. August 1, 2005 Kristen French	Next Year's Model If the one-stop shop is out, what new formula will take its place? In many ways, the Citi/Legg Mason swap looks like an ideal prototype. The thing is, a swap like that is not likely to be repeated.
Wall Street & Technology June 13, 2006 Greg MacSweeney	Careful What You Wish For While financial firms are relieved by the extension of full Reg NMS implementation, compliance now bumps up against the Nov. 1, 2007 deadline for the European Market in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). So where does that leave the industry?
Wall Street & Technology July 26, 2007 Maria Wakem	Christopher Rogers Helps Instinet Expand Globally Here, the financial firm's CTO discusses past work experiences, what's next for financial technology, 2008 initiatives, and his top three current IT projects.
BusinessWeek May 13, 2010 Robert Schmidt	The Charmed Life of Hedge Funds As banks get a tighter leash, funds may remain lightly regulated