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Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Direct-Market-Access Trading The buy side is taking more control of its trading decisions while looking for faster, lower-cost and anonymous executions. Direct market access (DMA) tools permit buy-side traders to access liquidity pools and multiple execution venues directly, without intervention from a broker's trading desk.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Maria Santos	Alternative Investment Tools As hedge funds gain wider acceptance in the wealth-management space, investment advisers struggle to determine how they fit into their clients' portfolios.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Anthony Guerra	Integration After decades of technology development, Wall Street firms find themselves with multiple business lines running dozens of applications that don't speak the same language.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Jim Middlemiss	Outsourcing: Captive Sites The newest outsourcing trend is the building of captive sites, in which brokerage firms essentially expand their operations, taking on their own space and employees in a foreign country rather than using the services of a third-party service provider.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Maria Santos	Compliance As the Securities and Exchange Commission steps up its efforts to regulate the industry and protect investors, financial institutions must take proactive measures to comply with current and possible future rules before the SEC takes action against them.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Kerry Massaro	Shared Data Services Several consulting firms and one vendor are looking to build separate utilities that would allow broker-dealers and investment managers to outsource their data services to achieve cost savings. A second model being considered is a utility owned and operated by the industry firms themselves.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Pre-Trade Analysis Brokers are developing pre-trade analytics in connection with their algorithms to help buy-side customers determine the best algorithms to use.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Julie Gallagher	Data Latency Market-data latency has gotten much attention on the sell side, but like so many other industry issues, the buy side is just now playing catch-up.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Maria Santos	Attracting Order Flow Given the amount of trading activity hedge funds generate, competition for their order flow is heating up.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Reg NMS As part of the extreme makeover of the National Market System, the SEC's Reg NMS proposes that market centers route orders to the venue that offers the best price.
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