A-Team IQ meets with Niall Cameron, Markit’s man charged with replicating the company’s OTC success in equities; How the credit crunch has put new pressures on market liquidity and brought about new scrutiny; Examining Europe’s fragmented markets with clutch of new MTFs; Risk drives data innovations; Low latency in a flash; Know your exposure; Getting the measure of best execution, and more…

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  A-TeamIQ Issue 07 - Q1 2009 (2.8 MiB)
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Get IT right for risk management; Risk analytics rise to the fore; Certification – standard bearers; IT challenges for financial institutions in 2009; Valuations at face value; Case study – HighStep seeks edge in knowledge management; Can commodities ride the credit crunch wave?; The network perspective of low latency; and FX wholesale banking automation…

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First Word

• Welcome Break

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Review & Outlook

• Getting IT Right For Risk Management
• Risk Analytics Rise to the Fore as the Industry Scrambles for Insight
• Certification: Standard Bearers

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Features

• Running on Empty
  Firms that decide to continue their markets activities will face major IT challenges in 2009. By Andrew P. Delaney
• Valuations At Face Value
  The valuations business has witnessed a surge of activity this past year, following increased scrutiny of counterparty risk and focus on independent fair value pricing. But with so many new entrants into the market, is there room at the table for all of them? Virginie O’Shea reports
• Case study: HighStep Seeks an Edge with Connotate Knowledge Management
  Following robust take up in the U.S., Connotate Technologies is set to unleash its web-based ‘knowledge management’ solution on the European buy-side marketplace. Jason Jones, founder of U.S. hedge fund HighStep, spoke to Virginie O’Shea about his user experience
• Can Commodities Ride the Credit Crunch Wave?
  With equity markets floundering everywhere, can the increasingly automated commodities markets provide a ray of hope? Roger Aitken examines the risks
• Low Latency: The Network Perspective
  Low latency has emerged as a key consideration in network design and management. But just what do you have to bear in mind when putting it into practice – particularly when you are limited by the laws of physics? Simon Taylor, Strategic Account Manager at Leeds-based network security and performance company Boxing Orange, offers some perspective
• FX Wholesale Banking Automation
  Now more than ever, banks are turning inwards to see where they can offer new services and streamline processes. Tim Shaw, Product Manager at IMX Software explores what opportunities are still to be found within foreign exchange

One year on – has Swift’s bold restructuring plan had an impact?; With attention turning to commodities, derivatives and volatility, has Chicago’s moment arrived?; What role does technology play in making M&A activities a success?; Does the growing array of alternative trading venues offer real choice or just a big headache?; Tailoring MiFID to the commodity derivatives business; Workflow orchestration; Cloud technology; XBRL and more…

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  A-TeamIQ Issue 05 - Q3 2008 (2.3 MiB)
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A-Team IQ talks to NYSE’s global technology head Larry Leibowitz and TransactTools CEO Sam Johnson about their vision for universal market access; Does outsourced reference data management meet the challenges of tighter cost control?; Downstream data integration; is the ‘investment roadmap’ just another set of standards doomed to failure?; Visualising what’s best for smart order routing; Regional focus on the Gulf States; Regional focus on Israel; the buy-side re-evaluates data management; hardware acceleration, and more…

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  A-TeamIQ Issue 04 - Q2 2008 (3.3 MiB)
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Turquoise’s Eli Lederman on turning Turquoise from a project into a business; OMS/EMS integration; Regional focus on the Nordics; CIO Interview with T Rajah of CLSA on post-trade infrastructure; Software as a Service (SaaS); Financial regulation – keeping your customer satisfied; The data headache of alternative investment; Inside the complex world of event processing; Making MiFID work for you, and more…

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  A-TeamIQ Issue 03 - Q1 2008 (8.2 MiB)
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A-Team IQ interviews Swift’s Lazaro Campos on doing more with the Swift franchise; trading and operations for OTC derivatives; New frontiers for algorithmic trading; Interview with Omgeo CEO Marianne Brown; When will automation take hold for corporate actions?; The rising priority of counterparty data; Regulation – how to dig up the road only once; Regional focus on Singapore; Web 2.0 takes its first steps on Wall Street, and more…

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  A-TeamIQ Issue 02 - Q4 2007 (3.7 MiB)
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