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American Century licenses Sentinel
The article in highlights the reasons why American Century selected LatentZero.

Published - Wall Street & Technology, November 2003

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American Century recasts back office

Keith Kinart, American Century's VP of Investment Management Technology talks about the need for scalable systems.

Published - Operations Management, November 2003

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Martin Currie deploys LatentZero's Capstone
Anthony Murphy describes in STP Magazine how Martin Currie anticipates both a reduction in operational risk and improved fund performance.

Published - STP Magazine, October 2003

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Der Schlüssel zum Erfolg

Compliance-Technologie stellt dies gerade bezüglich der Kundenbetreuung und dem globalem Wettbewerb dar.

Published - IT Banken, October 2003

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Aronson+Johnson select Sentinel

Paul Dodge, Principal at Aronson+Johnson, says they chose Sentinel because it was easier to use than other systems.

Published - Operations Management, September 2003

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LatentZero debuts front office suite at Martin Currie

Martin Currie, in an interview in Hedge Fund & Investment Technology, talk about how Martin Currie plan to roll out the Capstone product and why they chose LatentZero.

Published - Hedge Fund & Investment Technology, October 2003

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LatentZero adds to links

Chris Kentouris comments that LatentZero is clearly aiming at being the most prolific in linking to liquidity providers.

Published - Securities Industry News, September 2003

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Instinet, ITG, Lava tap LatentZero

LatentZero announces connectivity with Instinet, ITG and Lava. LatentZero has already connected to Liquidnet and is in discussions with fixed-income trading platform TradeWeb.

Published - Securities Industry News, August 2003

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Getting to grips with legal risk in investment compliance

Pauline Ashall of Linklaters discusses the new compliance challenges that asset management firms are facing, and outlines the steps executives can take to mitigate legal risk. Real time systems that can support pre-trade checks, like LatentZero's Sentinel, are key.

Published - Operational Risk, August 2003

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Get match-fit quick
Paul Allen of STP Magazine looks at the bringing together of two IT and Operations infrastructures when two financial services firms merge. Stewart Norwood, IT director at Insight Investment, which has recently merged with Rothschild Asset Management, talks about their selection of the best technology from each company: chosing Rothschild's front office technology (supplied by LatentZero) and Insight's back office and client facing technology.

Published - STP Magazine, June 2003

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Playing the waiting game

Kristina West of STP Magazine, discusses the current market for order management systems. Richard Jones, Managing Director of LatentZero, talks about the company's current focus on fixed income, pending the resurgence of equities.

Published - STP Magazine, June 2003

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Insight upgrades global systems
Paul Charie, sales and marketing director at LatentZero, talks about the phased implementation of LatentZero's front office technology across all asset classes at Insight Investment. LatentZero's technology is closely integrated, using APIs, with Insight's other front and back office systems.

Published - Financial Sector Technology, June 2003

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The Quest for Zero Latency
Victor Anderson, of Buyside IT, writes a detailed profile of LatentZero's Sentinel product. The article includes a Baring Asset Management case study. Rob Knight, Baring's global head of operational compliance, talks about the benefits gained from using Sentinel for pre-trade compliance checks on all asset classes.

Published - BuySide IT, July 2003

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Gestion de portefeuille, technologies et contrôle de la conformité
Les gestionnaires de portefeuille européens devraient se rendre compte du potential des technologies de contrôle de la conformité comme fondement d'une nouvelle démarche proactive, pour répondre aux défis pressants de l'heure.

Published - Point Banque, June 2003

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Alliance Capital selects LatentZero
LatentZero's Capstone product implemented at Alliance Capital Management.

Published - Operations Management, June 2003

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LatentZero Targeting Small-to-Mid-Tier Shops
Chris Kentouris of Securities Industry News talks to Bill Elbery about how LatentZero is also targeting Capstone at the smaller investment management companies.

Published - Securities Industry News, June 2003

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Britannic Asset Management chooses Sentinel
Lindsay Gold describes why Britannic Asset Management chose Sentinel and outlines how the Sentinel system is used within Britannic.

Published - Wall Street & Technology Online, June 2003

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Britannic Asset Management picks LatentZero Sentinel for compliance
The article describes how LatentZero saw off the competition to win the sale.

Published - Securities Industry News, June 2003

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Insight speeds LatentZero implementation
The decision to implement LatentZero's Minerva, Sentinel and Tesseract products was accelerated by Insight's January 31 acquisition of Rothschild Asset Management. Stewart Norwood describes how as part of the integration of Rothschild's front-office suite with Insight's back office, all equity fund managers have been migrated onto the LatentZero Minerva system and the fixed income migration is underway.

Published - BuySide IT, May 2003

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A centre of expertise
Toronto Dominion Asset Management has created a Policy Risk Group to take responsibility for the running of the LatentZero compliance system it is implementing this year. Mike Thorfinnson describes the factors behind TDAM's decision to invest in Sentinel.

Published - STP Magazine, May 2003

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Credit and compliance
With fallen angels littering the corporate bond markets, there is a growing need for sophisticated compliance technology. By Tessa Van Der Burgh.

Published - Global Investor, May 2003

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Transparency in compliance for best execution
David King of Tiger Consultants describes how the growing demands for transparency add to the need for improved compliance checking. The newsletter includes an item on Insight taking LatentZero's product.

Published - Tiger Projects E-News, April 2003

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The height of fashion

The historically sleepy world of compliance has become more in vogue as clients and regulators demand more operational control from the buy side.

Published - STP Magazine, April 2003

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Walking the liqudity tightrope

In the raging bull market nobody gave liquidity risk a second thought. It was just something that investment theory students talked about in the comfort of the lecture theatre and had little practical meaning in the real world. But these days portfolio managers have to consider liqudity risk every time they make a trade.

By Adrian Pay

Published - AMITA Newsletter, April 2003

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LatentZero aims to challenge top-tier OMS Vendors
LatentZero is positioned to grab increased market share, says Gavin Little-Gill, an analyst at the TowerGroup, quoted in an Institutional Investor article by Matt Strickberger.

Published - Operations Management, April 2003

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LatentZero wins clients, launches Tesseract
Mike Thorfinnson of Toronto Dominion Asset Management talks about their selection of Sentinel for pre and post trade compliance.

Published - BuySideIT, March 2003

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Why risk IT?
Ever more complex investment risks with crushing liability factors and increased client scrutiny demand new and highly sophisticated technology, says Adrian Pay of LatentZero.

Published - STPforum, February 2003

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New market, new OMS sales pitch

It's still about STP, but vendors are highlighting expense tracking and compliance features to push OMSs to the buy side.

Published - Waters Magazine, February 2003

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Holy Grail on the back burner
A long bear market, tight IT budgets and general financial prudence have combined to take the momentum out of the push towards STP. But, says Philip Manchester, the underlying reasons for more integrated processing have not gone away and STP remains an inevitable future development.

Published - Securities & Investment Review, Jan-Feb 2003

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