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Wall Street & Technology March 19, 2007 Greg MacSweeney	Evolving Technology Enables Firms to Save Milliseconds on Data Exchanges, But Reliance on this Technology Can Cost Wall Street Money Bleeding-edge processor speed and high-performance technology offer many benefits to Wall Street firms, but reliance on them come at a high price.
Wall Street & Technology March 19, 2007	TowerGroup Predicts Growing Demand for Defined Contribution Plans Firms' increased attention to the defined-contribution channel and development of new investment products will result in increased demand for related technologies, TowerGroup predicts.
Wall Street & Technology March 19, 2007	Finding Liquidity in Derivatives Instruments Is Traders' Biggest Challenge Despite substantial growth in derivatives trading in recent years, much of equity derivatives volume is concentrated in the most-liquid contracts.
Wall Street & Technology March 19, 2007 Paul McDougall	Big Surge for Bank Offshore Outsourcing, Deloitte Study Predicts Banks in the U.S. and other countries will dramatically increase the percentage of their IT budgets devoted to procuring technology services from offshore providers operating from low-wage countries, such as India and China, over the next three years.
Wall Street & Technology March 19, 2007 Penny Crosman	Most Capital Markets Firms Are Not Ready to Deploy Microsoft's Vista Operating System Although Citigroup announced its intention to deploy Vista on 360,000 desktops this summer, most capital markets firms, while evaluating the new OS, are not quite ready for a major rollout.
Wall Street & Technology March 19, 2007	Celent Updates the Execution Quality Rankings of the NYSE and Nasdaq Exchanges In its latest report, the financial industry analyst firm adopted the standard market practice of measuring the effective-over-quoted spread, which has resulted in a shake-up of its rankings.
Wall Street & Technology March 19, 2007 James Walker	Credit Suisse Learns From Past Outsourcing Deals to Fine-Tune Agreement With BT and Swisscom Credit Suisse refined its recent sourcing process to compress the timescales, which not only enabled the bank to generate savings faster but also created a more-competitive and aggressive bidding environment, right up to contract signature.
Wall Street & Technology March 19, 2007	Aite Recommends Improving Advisor Productivity in Wealth Management Market Aite Group recently released its evaluation of wealth management platforms and noted the importance of improving adviser productivity in an industry experiencing consolidation.
Wall Street & Technology March 19, 2007	Evaluating CRM Solutions When Companies Merge CRM systems are not one-size-fits-all. Those that have features specific to financial industries will more easily reveal their value to users and deliver greater ROI.
Wall Street & Technology March 19, 2007 Larry Tabb	U.S. Firms Have Had Few Options When it Came to Investing in Companies Overseas, Until Now Investors and brokers need to move with caution, however, as all markets, all economies and all governments are not alike. Be prepared for tax, withholding, regulatory and accounting challenges that will make overseas investing a little different than buying 100 shares of IBM.
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