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Z/Yen Group is the City of Londons leading commercial think tank promoting
societal advance through better finance and technology. Z/Yen applies its
risk/reward methodology for banks, investors, corporate treasuries, information
providers, exchanges, insurers, trade associations and alternative risk
vehicles. Z/Yens strength is in wholesale finance strategy, intelligence
and research. Z/Yen research interests include operations processing, new
risk products (e.g. novel gambling or insurance hybrids), prediction systems,
best execution, liquidity estimation, and institutional investment evaluation.
Z/Yen performs benchmarking & performance analysis, strategic planning
(outsourcing, re-engineering, relocation), market intelligence & surveys, risk
management and change management, as well as special projects such as conversion
from building society to banking status or fraud investigations. Z/Yen has
led several industry initiatives from the 1996 launch of Taskforce 2000, the
industry response to the millennium bug, to ongoing investment banking global
operations costs benchmarks (European securities, US securities, global
derivatives processing, global foreign exchange & money markets, operational
performance, and clearance & settlement). Working with the Universities
Superannuation Scheme and Gresham College, Z/Yen created the Farsight Award for
long-term investment research. Z/Yen created and supports the $15M London
Accord, the worlds leading open source research cooperative into climate
change economics. Z/Yen created and runs the City of Londons
Global Financial Centres
Index.
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Z/Yen Financial Services Research
Studies |
Dates |
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Anti-Money Laundering Requirements: Costs, Benefits
and Perceptions City of London Corporation |
2005 |
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Best Execution Compliance Automation research into
trade anomaly detection for Sun Microsystems, London Stock Exchange and
five brokers |
2005 to 2007 |
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CCP
Consolidation Impact Analysis London Clearing House |
2003 |
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Cost per
Trade Benchmarking European Securities consortia |
2000 to
present |
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Cost per
Trade Benchmarking Global FX and Money Markets consortia |
2001 to
present |
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Cost per
Trade Benchmarking Global OTC Derivatives consortia |
2000 to
present |
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Cost per
Trade Benchmarking USA Securities consortia |
2003 to
present |
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Effects of
Moving to Anonymous Counterparty Trading & Reinsurance Costs London
Stock Exchange |
1998 |
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Evaluation of
Competitive Stock Exchange Systems Advantage West Midlands |
2004 |
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Institutional
Investment And Trading In UK Smaller Quoted
Companies
Quoted Companies Alliance |
2002 |
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Online
Gambling Effects on Finance Centre for the Study of Financial
Innovation |
2004 |
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Operational
Performance of Brokers Asian Securities - consortia |
2004 to
present |
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Operational
Performance of Brokers European Securities consortia |
2002 to
present |
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Operational
Performance of Brokers Global FX and Money Markets - consortia |
2004 to
present |
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Operational
Performance of Brokers Global OTC Derivatives - consortia |
2004 to
present |
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Operational
Performance of Brokers USA Securities - consortia |
2003 to
present |
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Operations
Best Practice Brokerage Costs - consortium |
2005 |
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Operations
Best Practice Corporate Actions - consortia |
2003 to
present |
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Operations
Best Practice Settlement and Custody Fees - consortia |
2001 to
present |
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OTC
Derivatives Processing Costs Deutsche Bank & 15 other investment banks |
1999 |
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Product
Control Survey product control functions for ABN Amro & eight other
investment banks |
2003 |
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Strategy
Canvas survey of strategic factors for Deutsche Bank & eight other
investment banks |
2004 |
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The
Competitive Position of London as a Global Financial Centre City of
London Corporation |
2005 |
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The Financial
Laboratory research into risk visualisation - consortium of Barclays,
Royal Sun Alliance, London Stock Exchange, City University & others |
1995-1997 |
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The Global
Financial Centres Index City of London Corporation |
2006 to
present |
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The London
Accord economic research into climate change investment opportunities
BP, City of London Corporation, 10 investment banks, 10 other parties |
2005 to
present |
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Trade
Publication Study on Transparency, Liquidity and the Delayed Publication
Rules London Stock Exchange |
2003 |
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