Managing the Desk 

Consolidated Clearing: Obstacles and Evolution August 27, 2008 | Cost savings and efficiency have the buy side taking note of consolidated clearing. But will widespread adoption happen?

Demand for Credit Analysts Rises on the Buy Side in Wake of Rating Agency Disasters
August 22, 2008 | After losing faith in rating agencies, buy-side firms are hiring their own in-house talent to perform credit analysis of issues.

Northern Trust Releases Fundamentals Dashboard
August 21, 2008 |

Pali Capital Expands with Three New Hires in Equity Trading
August 20, 2008 | Taps three sales traders from Bear Stearns and Jefferies & Co.

Sectoral Selects LongView Trading
August 19, 2008 |

Coexis Hires Stephenson to Head Up Asia Ops
August 19, 2008 |

Former BofA Exec Joins Cuttone & Company
July 28, 2008 |

Duke to Head Up Knight’s European Electronic Sales
July 17, 2008 |


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CAPIS Sees Buy-Side Demand for Fixed Income in CCA Programs July 16, 2008
Former Citi Exec Joins Tora Trading July 15, 2008
Knight To Expand Transition Management Services June 17, 2008
Henderson Adopts Imagine Software’s Portfolio Management Solution June 16, 2008
George Weston Foods Chooses SunGard’s Kiodex For Its Commodity Hedging Program June 04, 2008
Credit Suisse Launches Virtual Infrastructure Management Software Company June 04, 2008
Morgan Stanley Investment Management Launches Commodities Alpha Fund May 23, 2008
BNY ConvergEx Group Discusses New Transition Management Paradigm May 22, 2008
Cuttone & Company Makes Key Hire May 12, 2008
Managing the Desk: Keeping Up With Information Overload April 21, 2008
Managing the Desk: Technology Documentation April 15, 2008
Stephen Potter Appointed President of Northern Trust Global Investments April 03, 2008
Rosenblatt Hires New NYSE Floor Head March 26, 2008
IB Trading Olympiad Winners Announced March 20, 2008
Minority- and Woman-Owned Broker Dealers Gaining Ground December 13, 2007
The City of New York Turns to Minority- and Woman-Owned Broker-Dealers December 13, 2007
Demand for Quants Surges as Trading Requires More Math and Programming Skills December 05, 2007
Achieving Alpha: How Do Traders Do It? December 03, 2007
Agency Broker Weeden & Co. Organizes Traders in Pods to Offer Targeted Service November 19, 2007
Broker-Dealers vs. Agencies: Broker-Dealers Still Get the Majority of Commissions November 19, 2007
Agency Brokers See Growth as Business Evolves November 19, 2007
2008 Outlook: The Buy Side Raises Issues With Fragmentation, Data Traffic and Execution Systems October 08, 2007
Commission Management Practices - From Soft Dollars to Hard Boiled Bucks? September 01, 2007

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This page was designed for head traders who are managing a staff of traders, a trading desk or a trading floor. Issues such as hiring staff, particularly quantitative analysts, financial engineers and technology execs who understand trading, are covered here. In addition features that uncover how buy and sell side firms have structured their trading desks and why, how they deal with certain regulations, or what their strategy is on using algorithms or international trading can also be found here. Issues concerning how a trader managers the technology on his/her trading desk as well as the vendor relationships and relationships with inhouse IT can also be found here. All issues covered from a management perspective for a head trader can be found in this section.