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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 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 August 21, 2006 Tim Clark	Affirmative Action A flood of new solutions hits the credit derivatives space in an effort to stem the risk of backlogged paperwork.
Wall Street & Technology November 18, 2005 Paul Allen	Credit Derivatives Fears The credit derivatives market continues to soar, up nearly 48% in the first six months of the year and 128% over 2004. But such front-office trading success has its back-office price, along with the potential to cause the market to implode.
Wall Street & Technology February 13, 2007 Ivy Schmerken	Asset Managers Push Custodians to Offer Independent Pricing Services for OTC Derivatives The exponential growth of OTC derivatives is forcing custodians to provide independent valuation services to their institutional clients.
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...
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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 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 February 14, 2006 Cory Levine	DTCC Hires Derivatives Expert Derivatives processing authority Bill Stenning joined the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC) as VP of business development.
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 March 26, 2004 Jim Middlemiss	IT Challenge: Settlement The Challenge: For financial services firms, moving away from batch processing is still a challenge. The DTCC's new inventory-management system offers delivery flexibility and helps firms find efficiencies and increase automation in the settlement process.
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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.
Wall Street & Technology June 4, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Credit-Index Trading Takes Off Buy-side interest in two rival credit-derivatives indices is forcing dealers to adopt electronic trading to keep pace.
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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.
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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 23, 2008 Peggy Bresnick Kendler	J.P. Morgan Signs on for DTCC's Loan/SERV to Automate Syndicated Loan Services J.P. Morgan has signed on for The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation's Loan/SERV and will begin using the new suite of services to automate and streamline the processing of their syndicated commercial loans.
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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.
U.S. Banker April 2009 Joseph Rosta	Trade Credit Default Swaps on an Exchange It's time for this vulnerable market to take its vaccine.
Salon.com February 5, 2002 Damien Cave	Risky business How did Enron break into the elite Wall Street world of credit derivatives?
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.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 Brett Lancaster	Wringing the Risk Out of Corporate Actions The vice president of Global Corporate Actions, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) asserts that the global financial services industry recognizes the need to bring greater harmony and reduced risk to corporate actions processing, which will also advance the goal of straight-through processing.
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.
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.
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 May 25, 2005 Paul Allen	Slow and Steady Though notable strides have been made toward straight-through processing in many areas of the transaction life cycle, when it comes to automating corporate actions, the progress is more akin to staggering into a headwind - slow and hard.
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Greg MacSweeney	Don't Reinvent the Wheel An interview with Philippe Bibi, senior managing director and CTO at Putnam Investments on his plans to add business value in 2006 by developing technology that can automate derivatives transactions and replacing some legacy systems with off-the-shelf solutions.
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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.
Wall Street & Technology February 19, 2008 Larry Tabb	Societe Generale-Type Fraud Could Happen Again The scary thing is, what happened at Societe Generale could happen at virtually every bank and brokerage firm. So how was the fraud committed, and what can we learn from it?
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