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Performance analytics – helping to bring transparency to the FX pricing process

Currency Investor For years, many professional currency practitioners have seen trustees’ and investment managers’ eyes glaze over when asked two questions: how much they paid for the currency management component of their securities trading and how transparent the cost was to them. The same people would probably have completely dozed off had practitioners asked...

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Basic structures start to crumble

FT Mandate, June 2009 Despite surviving the market downturn so far, smaller administrators are in danger of running out of steam, as client demand for improved technology and higher standards of service may price them out of the game. By Gerry O’Kane. It comes as no surprise that the recession has hit every area...

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A regional power emerges

FT Mandate, March 2004 BNP Paribas Securities Services strategic acquisitions have given rise to optimism that European players can adapt to the fast-changing world of global custody and securities services. Gerry O’Kane explains. While most of the custody world has been glued to the unfolding State Street/Deutsche Bank drama, BNP Paribas Securities Services (BNPPSS)...

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State Street success story

FT Mandate, 23 February 2004 Some in the custody industry have commented on the smugger corporate face of State Street over the past few months. This is down to the first birthday of State Street’s acquisition of Deutsche Bank’s custody operations, and backed up by what Wall Street regards as better-than-expected results for the...

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Active Strategies – currency hedging that delivers smarter risk management

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Currency Investor, Active currency management is getting a new breath of life. As global economies lurch towards stagnation and the thermometer of equity markets...

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Performance analytics – helping to bring transparency to the FX pricing process

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Currency Investor For years, many professional currency practitioners have seen trustees’ and investment managers’ eyes glaze over when asked two questions: how much they...

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Middle East: regional E-forex perspective

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Gerry O’Kane looks at growth in e-FX throughout the Middle Eastern markets and how resistance to electronic systems is changing rapidly in the fast...

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Timing: – just how important is it for achieving currency alpha?

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Currency Investor, Winter 2010 Within the equities world there has been some discussion over whether market timing is a viable investment strategy or simply...

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