Investment Services

Research Meeting Findings

• Findings: Co-opting Customer Competence (The Wisdom of Crowds or Ignorance of Masses)
  29 June 2007
• Findings: What You Need to Do Now About The Thomson Corporation's Plans to Take Over Reuters
  23 May 2007

Featured Research

• Latest Platform Aims to Help Brokers Address Markets in Financial Instruments Directive Compliance
  13 July 2007
• Findings: Virtual Worlds Evolve Toward Financial Legitimacy but Have Real Regulatory Risk
  12 July 2007
• Early Efforts at Web 2.0 Brokerage Will Challenge Existing Providers
  29 June 2007
• SWIFT's Role in Industry Standards Development is a Benefit That Should be Leveraged and Protected
  26 June 2007
• Broadridge's Gloss: An International Securities-Processing Solution
  20 June 2007
• GoldenSource EDM Suite: Seeking to Provide an Enterprise Data Management Solution
  7 June 2007
• NASDAQ/OMX Combination Puts Spotlight on Volume, Technology
  30 May 2007
• Messaging Standards in the Investment Services Industry: Why, What, When (and a Pinch of How)
  25 May 2007
• Aligning Business and IT Strategies in Wealth Management
  25 May 2007
• Broadridge's Impact: An Enterprise Fixed-Income Solution
  24 May 2007
• IT Spending for Investment Services Firms, 2007
  22 May 2007
• Bank Controls Runaway Use of Microsoft Excel, Improves Risk Management
  15 May 2007
• Financial Services Business Priorities, 2007
  17 April 2007
• Key Issues and Research Agenda for Investment Services Industry, 2007
  27 February 2007

Front Office

Sell-side and buy-side client-facing processes, applications and strategies

• Evaluating Vendor-Supplied Investment Services Data Models
  26 June 2007
• Product Review: Misys Summit
  4 January 2007
• Product Review: Misys Opics Plus
  2 January 2007
• Leveraging SOA in Wealth Management Deployments
  27 December 2006
• IBM Launches WebSphere Front Office for Financial Markets
  12 December 2006
• Investment Firms Are Not Eager to Replace Portfolio Management and Accounting Systems
  6 December 2006

Back Office

Internal operations, infrastructure and architecture of sell-side and buy-side firms

• Latest Platform Aims to Help Brokers Address Markets in Financial Instruments Directive Compliance
  13 July 2007
• royalblue Seeks Elusive Product Synergy in Buying LatentZero
  19 April 2007
• FAQ: The Impact of Virtualization on the Server Market
  10 April 2007
• Technology Tools for Portfolio Decision Making
  28 March 2007
• Thomson Transaction Services: A Solid Securities Processing Workhorse
  22 March 2007
• Avox Brings Collaboration to Legal Business Entity Reference Data
  17 March 2007
• Product Review: Misys Summit
  4 January 2007
• Product Review: Misys Opics Plus
  2 January 2007
• The SEC's Banning of Pre-Trade Netting Will Definitely Raise Your Clearing Costs
  16 March 2007
• Best Practices for Maturing Your Reference and Market Data Management Organizational Approach
  27 February 2007
• Best Practices in Balancing Centralization and Decentralization: Identifying Processes for Movement to a Shared-Service Layer
  6 February 2007
• Survey of North American Asset Managers: Algorithmic and DMA Trading Use Growing Gradually
  28 December 2006
• Consolidation Will Be Slow in the Order Management Systems Market
  28 December 2006
• Product Review: ADP Global Processing Solution
  14 December 2006
• Banking and Investment Services BCM/DR, 2006
  12 December 2006
• Product Review: ADP Brokerage Processing Services
  12 December 2006
• Investment Services Firms: Redesign Your Architecture to Succeed in the Emerging Ecosystem
  11 December 2006
• Case Study: Business Process Outsourcing Collaboration Gives Rapid Results for Investment Startup Careon
  30 November 2006
• Product Review: Shadow Financial's ShadoSuite
  28 November 2006
• Product Review: SunGard Phase3
  28 November 2006
• Securities Processing Systems: A Growth Business
  9 November 2006
• Teradata Proposition for the Investment Services Industry
  6 November 2006
• Survey: Inadequate Use of Corporate Action Methods Found in Middle and Back Offices
  30 October 2006
• Fidelity ActionsXchange for Corporate Actions: Return on Investment May Outweigh the Cost
  25 October 2006
• Selecting the Right Corporate Action Automation Solution
  2 October 2006
• The New Look of Correspondent Clearing
  9 October 2006
• The DTCC Will Provide a Much Needed Boost to Annuities Exchange Processing
  5 October 2006
• Update: SunGard Executing on Its Common Services Architecture
  28 September 2006
• Key Features, Vendors and Packages of Over-the-Counter Derivatives
  11 August 2006
• Thomson Financial Deepens Effort to Position PORTIA as a Core System for Asset Managers
  28 July 2006
• Sell-Side Brokerage Security Processing Systems: Market Overview
  24 July 2006
• Outsourcing's Pending Role in Securities Clearing and Settlement
  12 July 2006
• The Impact of Investment Services Industry Practices on SOA
  3 July 2006
• Sourcing Models Are Needed for Securities Clearing and Settlement
  29 June 2006
• SWIFT Banks on the Securities Industry
  22 June 2006

Strategy & Management

Investment industry trends and the contribution of technology to business success

• Early Efforts at Web 2.0 Brokerage Will Challenge Existing Providers
  29 June 2007
• IT Spending for Investment Services Firms, 2007
  22 May 2007
• Bank Controls Runaway Use of Microsoft Excel, Improves Risk Management
  15 May 2007
• Case Study: State Street Corp. Takes a Chinese Road to Supercharged Applications
  16 April 2007
• Financial Services IT Must Learn to Think Outside the IT Box
  26 April 2007
• A Flat World Demands New Management Approach
  11 April 2007
• Case Study: A Global Bank Takes the Best From Its PMO
  2 April 2007
• Banks Should Trust No One When Screening for Risk
  29 March 2007
• Banking on Agility: IT Investments That Maximize Growth
  21 March 2007
• Case Study: HP's Outsourcing Services Help Prepare a U.S. Investment Bank for the Future
  15 March 2007
• Survey of North American Asset Managers: Algorithmic and DMA Trading Use Growing Gradually
  28 December 2006
• Consolidation Will Be Slow in the Order Management Systems Market
  28 December 2006
• Exchange of the Future: Transformation
  18 July 2006
• Case Study: A Global Bank Stays Competitive With Dual Development Teams
  20 December 2006
• Product Review: ADP Global Processing Solution
  14 December 2006
• Banking and Investment Services BCM/DR, 2006
  12 December 2006
• Case Study: Reuters Group Chooses Russia for Offshore Testing
  18 April 2007
• Financial Services Business Priorities, 2007
  17 April 2007
• Banking on Virtual Worlds: Threats and Opportunities
  11 April 2007
• Adopt Participative Management to Navigate in a Flat World
  4 April 2007
• Develop Strategies to Win Retirement Income Planning Race
  15 February 2007
• Markets in Financial Instruments Directive: The Triple Hit for Technology Vendors
  29 December 2006
• Enterprise Nervous System Components Dominate IT Spending for Investment Services Firms
  29 December 2006
• Retail Brokerages Must Evolve or Face Extinction
  27 December 2006
• Consider Carefully Before Investing in Real-Time Market Data Distribution Systems
  22 December 2006
• Real-Time Market Data Distribution Systems: Definition and Evaluation Framework
  14 December 2006
• Case Study: Versatile Offshore Outsourcing With Kanbay Benefits Daiwa
  8 December 2006
• Market in Financial Instruments Directive and Its Impact
  9 December 2006
• Markets in Financial Instruments Directive: CEOs and CIOs Must Do Lunch
  8 December 2006
• SWIFT Incident Shows Financial Firms Must Manage Operational Risk
  1 December 2006
• Case Study: Applying Business Process Management for Superior Equity Research in Investment Services
  30 November 2006
• Case Study: Business Process Outsourcing Collaboration Gives Rapid Results for Investment Startup Careon
  30 November 2006
• Revisiting Gartner's 2006 Investment Services Predictions
  30 November 2006
• Predicts 2007: New Investment Services Ecosystem Will Spur Flexible, Responsive Technologies
  22 November 2006
• Case Study: Investment Services Firms Can Benefit From HR Outsourcing
  9 November 2006
• Global Wealth Management Opportunities Expanding
  24 October 2006
• Market Maturity Will Shape Investment Services IT Spending for Asia/Pacific Through 2010
  23 October 2006
• Deconstructing Algorithmic Trading
  24 August 2006
• Corporate Actions Are the Last Frontier in Investment Firm Automation
  25 July 2006
• The Impact of Investment Services Industry Practices on SOA
  3 July 2006
• Subcustodians Must Tackle Disappearing Business
  15 June 2006
• Retail Mutual Funds Are a 20th Century Solution; a 21st Century Solution Is Needed
  8 June 2006

Spotlights

Research collections focusing on current issues

• Case Study: Banca Popolare Italiana Implements Enterprise Risk Architecture as a Best Practice for Risk Management
  20 June 2007
• Case Study: Reuters Group Chooses Russia for Offshore Testing
  18 April 2007
• A Flat World Demands New Management Approach
  11 April 2007
• Banking on Virtual Worlds: Threats and Opportunities
  11 April 2007
• Develop Strategies to Win Retirement Income Planning Race
  15 February 2007
• Markets in Financial Instruments Directive: The Triple Hit for Technology Vendors
  29 December 2006
• Enterprise Nervous System Components Dominate IT Spending for Investment Services Firms
  29 December 2006

Hype Cycles

The wave of the future — or just hype? Gartner Hype Cycles show the difference

• Hype Cycle for Banking and Investment Services Front-Office Technologies, 2007
  2 July 2007
• Hype Cycle for Business Process Investment Services, 2007
  21 June 2007
• Hype Cycle for Investment Services, 2006
  27 June 2006

Magic Quadrants

Which vendors are leaders, visionaries, challengers or niche players

• Magic Quadrant for Basel II Software Applications, 2006
  22 November 2006