Now & Z/Yen - December 2003
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Now & Z/Yen - December 2003
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Volume Four, Number Twenty-four "Zest for Enlightenment" The Irregular Newsletter of Z/Yen Limited December 2003 From Foresight to PropheZy
90 Interviews, 10 Countries, 17 Banks, 2 Gratuitous Rugby World Cup Mentions
No Beer and Sandwiches but Plenty of Incisive Debate
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Z/Yen has won
the prestigious Department of Trade and Industry Smart Award 2003 for PropheZy,
Z/Yen's world-class risk/reward prediction engine. A restricted number of Smart
Awards are given to innovative technologies in order to establish their
feasibility in wider applications. Z/Yen will use the proceeds from the Smart
Award for further research on real-time visualization of financial markets. The
research will extend our Foresight Challenge award-winning, "alpha
science" work from the Financial £aboratory that made waves from the FT to
Wired magazine in 1996. Smart alecks Michael Mainelli, Alan Helmore-Simpson,
Dimitris Fatouros and Kevin Parker featured heavily in Z/Yen's win.
Z/Yen's
financial services team strove to complete two Operational Performance of
Brokers (OPB) surveys before the end of 2003, in which 90 international fund
managers are interviewed. In a remarkable feat of planning, both interview
streams, the US led by Jonathan Davies and Europe led by James Pitcher, have
come to an end simultaneously. Jeremy, Giles, Francesca, Mary and Dimitris are
busy polishing off graphs and analysing trends. One thing is clear, Customer
Relationship Management (CRM) and operational excellence are ever more serious
for banks. Z/Yen will start 2004 with a further (Global) OPB study into the
Treasury Market. Australia beckons, but too late for the Rugby World Cup!
Z/Yen
was pleased to host a fantastic dinner in November where Dave Prentis, General
Secretary of UNISON, the UK's largest trade union and a Z/Yen client, led a
scintillating discussion on the topic "Trading with Unions - Friend, Foe or
Futile?" aboard Lady Daphne. The team concluded that unions had a crucial
place in free markets. The Guardian rates Dave the fourth most influential
person in public services and so he proved to be, recruiting a private health
sector chairman to the trade union movement on the night.