Now & Z/Yen - March 2006
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"Zest for Enlightenment" The Irregular Newsletter of Z/Yen Limited March 2006 Raising Interest
Comply with Compliance
Other applications for PropheZy grow almost daily. PropheZy has recently been tested on the prediction of inbound call volumes to a call centre, the identification of trademarks that are likely to be refused registration and the identification of counterparties to equity trades. Much to the frustration of after-hours staff, it still fails to predict the lottery... Odd Jobs Z/Yen’s expert resourcing division
SpecialiZm continues to provide our clients with experts for special
projects. We recently provided an expert in economic capital and Basel II to
assist an organisation with a project on compliance with European regulation.
Similarly, an expert in technical architecture and the implementation of large
scale, high-availability and highly-scalable secure systems was deployed to
advise on the development and testing of a new IT application. A third recent
assignment was the Social Engagements
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Z/Yen’s
range of Operational Performance studies on the services provided by investment
banks have generated wide interest this past year with client presentations in
Hong Kong, New York and London and numerous press articles. Additionally, the
results have been presented to a number of industry-wide
forums including the
Asia Broker Forum, the Scottish Operations Forum and the
London Client Forum. Z/Yen’s first 2006 Operational Performance Survey covering
Foreign Exchange, commences in March with Listed Derivatives following in April.
Z/Yen are also collaborating with MA Partners to produce an overall global
report.
"Best
Execution Compliance Automation” is hardly the most exciting project title, but
Z/Yen have completed an enormous, exciting project with Sun Microsystems and the
London Stock Exchange to test the feasibility of identifying share anomalies
using 
First
and foremost, our congratulations go to Francesca on her engagement. In other
Society Page news, we hear rumours of Linda’s plans for a move from “The Sty”
(not quite “The Shire” in Lord of the Rings) to “Paradise”. Naturally, our
friends at