2004

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Taking It Gradually
Spending on technology in the fund management sector is up, but only by a little, begging the question of where any additional money should be invested to maximise the benefits of IT for the business.

Richard Jones is interviewed to discuss his views on investing in IT in the front office and technology's role in managing compliance issues.

Published - Funds Europe, December 2004

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OMS Survey
In a survey conducted by The Trade at the end of Q3 2004, over 300 buy-side traders were invited to answer a series of questions about the rade Order Management Systems (OMS). Within the responses, eight vendor names (including LatentZero) were regularly cited. Each of these is profiled in summary.

A key finding was that in Category 4 (assets greater than $50 billion), LatentZero has largest market share.

Published - The Trade, December 2004

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Labour saving devices
The buzz around algorithmic trading is growing and spreading from the US to Europe. Beyond taking some of the grunt work out of trading, what other opportunities does algorithmic trading create, and what technology requirements does it generate?

Published - STP Magazine, November 2004

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Asset Management Solutions in Western Europe: A Comparison
This study by IDC and Financial Insights deals with the changes that are taking place in the asset management industry and outlines the most important software solutions available in Europe for asset management needs. Since this industry is passing through a transitional phase, it is of the utmost importance to understand the evolution in the short term as well in the long term in order to leverage on them and avoid negative consequences.

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Open Platform: The Evolution of Compliance
Compliance has never been a hotter topic on the buy side, as regulators on both sides of the Atlantic look to monitor the industry more closely and add a semblance of transparency to buy-side institutions' operations without stifling the culture of entrepreneurship associated with this side of the industry.

LatentZero's Adrian Pay looks at some of the advances made in investment compliance over the past five years.

Published - Hedge Fund & Investment Technology, October, 2004

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Tapping Into Tomorrow's Technology
To ensure it would be able to meet it future as well as its existing compliance requirements, Gartmore was prepared to invest in Sentinel when its provider, LatentZero, was a start-up.

Published - STP Magazine, October, 2004

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ABN Amro Asset Management Extends LatentZero to Global Role
LatentZero has won an extended contract from ABN Amro Asset Management (AAAM) that will make the U.S. order-management system provider's Capstone front-office suite the Dutch investment manager's global front-office technology infrastructure. The wide-ranging deal follows a similar decision to adopt Capstone by U.K. find manager Morely Asset Management a month earlier.

Published - Transaction Networks & Technologies, September, 2004

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Morley takes full LatentZero front office suite
Morley Fund Management has bought LatentZero's full front office suite comprising solutions for portfolio management, trading and compliance. The London based investment house is implementing the LatentZero products Tesseract, Minerva and Sentinel in its main office and the solution may be rolled out to its operations in Sydney and Boston in subsequent phases. The system will support Morley's equity and fixed income businesses.

Published - STP Magazine, September, 2004

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LatentZero to support ABN Amro Asset Management's global front office
The Dutch fund management house is to implement LatentZero's order management solution in Amsterdam and London before rolling it out, along with its existing compliance and trading functionality also from LatentZero, globally.

Published - STPzone, August 2004

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Going Global
When Baring Asset Management decided it could not run an efficient buy side operation on a global basis without a complete rethink of its order management system, it deployed technology from LatentZero to support its vision.

Published - STP Magazine, June 2004

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Southeastern Asset Management Selects LatentZero
Southeastern Asset Management (SAM) picked LatentZero's complete front-office suite, Capstone, for its equity-trading group. The investment advisory firm has $27 billion under management.

Published - Wall Street & Technology Online, 17 June 2004

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Pricey OMS vendor attracts attention
LatentZero, the new kid in buy-side order management, is trumping many of its more established competitors with technology typically found on the sell-side. Its Minerva trading and order management system can cost several million dollars, but its edging aside older software.

Published - Traders, June 2004

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Technology is not architecture
The changing role of the buy-side trader.

In the past few years, new industry regulations and changes in market structure have revolutionized securities trading. The emergence of disparate tool of liquidity, such as ECNs and crossing systems, resulted nt only in severe fragmentation of the market, but also a dramatic increase in trading volumes.

Published - Waters, June 2004

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Saved by Zero
Paul Charie and JP Cunningham outline what asset management companies like Threadneedle Investments and Insight Investment focussed on when selecting OMS and investment tools.

Published - Waters, May 2004

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European regulation is a one way street for asset managers
Asset managers require new front office technology for both the regulators and their clients.

Published - AMITA Newsletter, May 2004

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Compliance systems: no cause for concern
The traditional role of compliance systems was that of control, preventing breaches. Now they are also increasingly being used by fund managers to optimise the construction of portfolios and models, ahead of the generation of any orders.

Published - STP Magazine, April 2004

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Pressure to embrace technology
Asset managers need to stop taking a half-hearted apprach to technology if they don't want to be left behind as the regulation regime tightens up.

Published - European Fund Strategy, March 2004

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GE Asset Management Taps LatentZero
GE Asset Management, a Stamford, Conn.-based financial institution with $180 billion in its coffers, recently licensed fixed-income portfolio-management, trading and compliance applications from software provider Latent Zero. The firm, which counts $109 billion of that $180 billion as fixed-income assets, decided to standardize on one system after management put three GE financial-services entities under one unit, explains GE asset management vice president Bob McCorkle.

Published - WS&T online, March 26, 2004

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SSgA revamps order management system
Shane Kite reports that State Street Global Advisors will soon begin the implementation of LatentZero's Minerva order management and trading system. SSgA already use Sentinel for compliance checking. This latest decision will link Sentinel more closely to portfolio management and trading with both pre- and post-trade compliance checks.

Published - Securities Industry News, February 2004

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Best execution is the new compliance frontier
This article by Celia Mather highlights the growing importance of best execution, and the systems required to prove compliance.

Published - STPforum , February 2004

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