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Wall Street & Technology March 17, 2008 Penny Crosman	Markit's Moving Fast Into Derivatives Processing London-based data provider Markit has bought Communicator, Swapswire and BOAT. What's next for this fast-moving derivatives player?
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.
Wall Street & Technology March 25, 2008 Ivy Schmerken	InterContinental Exchange Acquires Yellow Jacket Software to Expand its Electronic Trading of OTC Derivatives Exchanges are moving into OTC derivatives as these instruments become more standardized and can trade on exchange-like electronic platforms.
Wall Street & Technology June 18, 2007 Penny Crosman	Technology Upgrades Improve Derivatives Processing The DTCC, SwapsWire, major broker-dealers and custodians, such as State Street, all are upgrading their technology to bring derivatives processes into the 21st century.
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Paul Allen	Trading Gets Exotic As the search for higher returns and diversification has sparked a surge in alternative investments, financial firms are working to establish a technology infrastructure capable of managing an acceptable balance between risk and reward.
Wall Street & Technology November 26, 2007 Penny Crosman	Derivatives Processing Will Attract More Dollars, Attention in 2008 As OTC derivatives grow increasingly popular, accurate pricing and risk evaluation is more important than ever. Automating derivatives processing can prevent costly mistakes that will be compounded by market turns.
Wall Street & Technology November 17, 2008 Penny Crosman	Wall Street Taking A Closer Look at Collateral Management In the wake of the credit crisis, JPMorgan, BNY Mellon, many of the top broker-dealers and a few buy-side firms are all involved in collateral management technology upgrades.
Wall Street & Technology March 14, 2008 Cory Levine	Reuters Delivers New Derivatives Pricing Service The new offering is part of Reuters' overall strategy to speed up the valuation process for complex instruments.
Wall Street & Technology March 19, 2007 Paul Allen	Many Firms Lack the Processing Infrastructure to Support Growth in Alternative Investments On Wall Street, the great demand for sources of alpha have fueled innovation in instrument development and front-office trading strategies, but automation challenges and data management problems must be addressed.
Wall Street & Technology April 11, 2008 Ivy Schmerken	Putnam Investments Sees Competitive Advantage in Building OTC Derivatives Pricing Engine In-House To verify prices from brokers and other outside sources, Putnam Investments developed an internal OTC derivatives valuation engine using grid computing.
CFO October 1, 2009 Randy Myers	Boxed In The government's push to standardize over-the-counter derivatives could severely disrupt corporate hedging programs.
Wall Street & Technology November 23, 2009 Ivy Schmerken	Derivatives Clearing Gives Congress Fits Congress is working on legislation for OTC derivatives reform, but there is still no agreement on mandatory clearing of standardized instruments or on how exotic instruments will be handled.
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.
FDIC FYI March 26, 2003	Derivatives Risk in Commercial Banking Derivatives serve an essential role in the U.S. and world economies but also present certain risks to the deposit insurance funds. This article explains what these risks are and describes how they are managed within commercial banking.
U.S. Banker August 2001 John Hackett	Credit Derivatives Hit a Snag After years of booming growth, the market in these hedging tools dropped in the first quarter, but the consensus is that they're too good to keep down. Includes statistics on the biggest bank participants.
Wall Street & Technology September 18, 2006 Cory Levine	Stephen Andress Hired by Northern Trust In the interest of expanding its presence in the derivatives space, Northern Trust Corp. has hired Stephen Andress to fill the newly created position of global head of derivatives operations.
Wall Street & Technology November 21, 2006	OTC Obstacles Eighty-five percent of respondents to a recent poll claim that data issues are the biggest obstacle to processing OTC derivatives.
On Wall Street January 1, 2009 Gwen Moran	Do Derivatives Need More Oversight? These securities have gotten a bad rap but new legislation may do more harm than good.
Real Estate Portfolio May/Jun 2007 Dees Stribling	The Dawning of Derivatives REIT and real estate derivatives are introduced as a new financial tool in the real estate world.
U.S. Banker March 2002 Man Yin Li	Transfer That Risk! With more and more bankruptcies and defaults, many banks can protect themselves with credit derivatives. There are dangers in using them, but if used intelligently, they can be a boon to many banks...
Wall Street & Technology November 26, 2007 Ivy Schmerken	Demand for Quants Heats Up on Wall Street But Recruitment is Hard As Wall Street trading becomes more mathematical and firms look to revamp their risk management systems, the demand for quantitative skill sets is never ending.
The Motley Fool July 25, 2007 S.J. Caplan	Profit From Credit Default Swaps Credit default swaps are privately negotiated contracts between institutional investors which are based on corporate bonds. How can you profit from them?
The Motley Fool November 14, 2011 Travis Hoium	Behind the Scenes of the Market: Derivatives and Risk How risk is calculated and the way derivatives are really traded.
HBS Working Knowledge March 20, 2006 Ann Cullen	Unlocking Your Investment Capital Many companies can double or even triple their capacity to invest in strategic assets and competencies by properly managing their risk balance sheet.
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006	Get Yer Red-Hot Derivatives Here! The derivatives market is heating up, and IT spending on derivatives management will experience a steady increase over the next four years, according to a new study.
Wall Street & Technology September 23, 2007 Penny Crosman	Can Financial Models Prevent CDO Problems? Computerized financial models help fund managers at Barclays, Mitsubishi and Point Clear make better decisions.
BusinessWeek May 27, 2010 Matthew Leising	How Wall Street Gamed Derivatives Reform New legislation likely won't have a major effect on banks that own stakes in trading and clearing firms.
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 January 5, 2007	TBI Broker Pricing Feed London's Tullett Prebon Information's Mark2Marker feed offers independent inter-dealer broker pricing for mark to market purposes, according to the vendor.
Investment Advisor September 2007 Kara P. Stapleton	The Fair Value Pricing Gap Narrows 90% of U.S. asset managers are now using third-party pricing vendors to value foreign equities, and with the continued focus on valuation as a primary risk area, the gaps between large and small asset managers have narrowed.
BusinessWeek November 24, 2010 Schmidt & Brush	Will Currency Derivatives Get a Pass on Oversight? Banks want them exempted. Geithner is caught between bankers and regulators on how much oversight to give currency derivatives.
Wall Street & Technology January 23, 2007 Matt Nelson	Ask The Expert: Trends Q: What business trend will have the biggest impact on asset managers in 2007, and how will it impact the IT department?... A: As we enter 2007, buy-side firms should be thinking about how they are positioned to support their clients' changing product needs...
CFO September 1, 2003 Hilary Rosenberg	Compromising Positions Will credit derivatives encourage more lending, or will they harm the interests of borrowers?
Reason February 2004 Callahan & Kaza	In Defense of Derivatives Between Enron, WorldCom, and Global Crossing, the controversial financial instruments have gotten a bad rap. Here's the truth.
The Motley Fool March 14, 2005 Tom Taulli	Diversity in Derivatives Derivatives are key for many financial institutions and corporations. GFI understands how to make money from them. The proof is in the earnings.
Wall Street & Technology April 11, 2008 Cory Levine	Hedge Funds Say Technology Is Critical to Business Hedge funds are focusing their technology efforts on improving automation around OTC derivatives, as well as adding collateral management technology and exerting better control over prime brokerage charges and rates, according to a new Aite survey.
The Motley Fool April 18, 2007 Emil Lee	Northern Trust's Streak as a Steward Continues The financial firm is picking up more business as a custodian of pension funds. Investors, take note.
Knowledge@Wharton February 12, 2003	The Changing Use of Derivatives: More Hedging, Less Speculation High-risk gambles like those that torpedoed Orange County, Gibson and P&G are far less likely than conservative plays meant to hedge against loss in underlying markets such as energy, commodities or currencies.
Wall Street & Technology May 8, 2009 Larry Tabb	OTC, Central Clearing or Exchange-Traded: Choosing the Right Path Increasing capital reserve requirements for OTC self-cleared products would change the economics of the marketplace and may nudge the industry toward an exchange-traded model.
Salon.com February 5, 2002 Damien Cave	Risky business How did Enron break into the elite Wall Street world of credit derivatives?
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Financial Planning April 1, 2010 Paul Menchaca	Derivatives Return As much as derivative products have been shunned as 'weapons of mass destruction,' certain derivatives may become more important as investors discover their value as a way of potentially limiting or focusing risk exposure.
U.S. Banker April 2008 Joseph Rosta	If You Build an Exchange, Will They Come? Devising exchange-based trading, complete with futures and options contracts, for the public trading of these securities may be the surest route to creating transparency and setting firm prices.
CFO May 8, 2006 Linda Corman	Lost in the Maze Problems with hedge accounting caused a wave of restatements in 2005. Are FASB's rules too hard to follow, or are companies simply too lax?
Wall Street & Technology March 19, 2007	Finding Liquidity in Derivatives Instruments Is Traders' Biggest Challenge Despite substantial growth in derivatives trading in recent years, much of equity derivatives volume is concentrated in the most-liquid contracts.
Bank Systems & Technology October 22, 2008 Peggy Bresnick Kendler	DTCC, LCH.Clearnet Announce Plans to Merge and Create Single Clearing House The merger proposal aims to create the world's leading clearing house, and should result in significant synergies and efficiency gains.
Bank Systems & Technology January 29, 2005 Travers & Tyrie	Monitoring Credit Rising consumer debt levels in many countries have led to concerns about deteriorating credit quality. To mitigate their exposure, leading banks are employing sophisticated analytical techniques to improve underwriting, while also managing risk better through the use of credit derivatives.
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The Motley Fool October 27, 2009	The Treasury Answers Fools' Questions Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Neal Wolin answers Motley Fool readers' questions regarding regulatory reform.