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Buyers Guide & Resource Directory

The fourth annual edition of the Securities Industry News Resource Directory and Buyer’s Guide assessed the newest vendor solutions that are transforming the markets, from trading platforms that enable electronic trading strategies, to back-office systems that improve post-trade efficiencies.

Contents

A New Generation of Credit Market Solutions

Technology companies are moving fast to meet the rapid expansion of the derivatives sector.

Clearing Firms Extend Their Outsourcing Businesses

Clearers bolster outsourcing services in the face of a shrinking customer base and declining fees for core business.

MiFID Brings New Trading, Data Management Opportunities

Europe's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive opens up competition in trading and data management.

For Front Office, More of the Same Means More $$$$

System-integration and electronic-trading requirements push continued growth in technology investment.

Easdaq Makes a Comeback as Equiduct

Defunct Easdaq trading platform lives on as a technology base for the Equiduct pan-European exchange.

A Time for Anticipation

There are reasons for the capital markets technology sector to look ahead to 2007 with more than the usual level of, if not outright optimism, anticipation.