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CRM comes of age
Historically, buy-side implementations of client relationship management (CRM) systems proved a tricky proposition. Third-party options were few and expensive, cumbersome to deploy, and had little functionality specific to the asset management industry. In recent years, though, a new crop of developers have brought to market more nimble, easily implemented and integrated products tailored more closely with the sales, marketing and client servicing operations of investment managers. By Stewart Eisenhart

The other side of the fence
When the largest financial institutions become as susceptible to sudden collapse as the smallest hedge funds, analysing counterparty credit risk becomes an increasingly crucial part of the investment and trading process. But as Joel Clark reports, the counterparty risk issue is just as acute, but very often overlooked, in the post-trade space.

This month's free news stories

Editor's letter - Are you going soft?

DTCC and Markit announce OTC derivatives alliance

SunGard, PerTrac ally to support FOHFs

Phoenix adds Linedata apps to fund service offering

Spotlight

With expansion on its collective mind, FIX Protocol Limited (FPL) has tapped Daemon Bear of JPMorgan Asset Management to co-chair its EMEA regional committee along with ITG’s Alasdair Haynes. Bear talks to Stewart Eisenhart about his efforts to expand uptake of FIX across asset classes and geographies.

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The Big Interview

Harbour Capital Partners, a recently launched London-based hedge fund hotel, became the first such UK-based operation boasting FSA regulatory approval. Victor Anderson speaks with Steve Williams, Harbour’s chief executive, about what he believes makes his firm’s offering unique, the challenges facing funds in the current business climate, and Harbour’s choice of Sophis’s technology to underpin the business

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Open platform

After 85 years at the heart of Wall Street, Bear Stearns is no more. But even before the highest profile and most celebrated casualty of the credit crunch closed its doors, the inevitable questions about who was next in line were already doing the rounds in an increasingly jittery industry. By Peter John

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Product profile

From its inception, Markit had the necessary ingredients for remarkable growth across the financial services industry: it identified (and focused on) a number of the most acute operational challenges for buy- and sell side firms; it attracted the financial backing from the industry’s largest and most influential players; and it made a number of key acquisitions and alliances, forging a lead in the CDS market that’s unlikely ever to be challenged. By Victor Anderson

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Special Report

North American and Western European buy-side markets at their saturation points, a new TowerGroup report anticipates a slower rate of growth for the buy-side OMS market. The future of OMS vendors’ growth prospects, says the report, lies with small- and mid-tier managers in other markets. By Stewart Eisenhart

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Best Execution – New York September 25, 2008

Jointly hosted by DWT and Buy-Side Technology, Best Execution 2008 is the first annual conference to bring together leading financial firms from the buy- and sell-side communities to discuss, debate, and present on the key issues and challenges to achieving best execution across a range of asset classes.

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