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Z/Yen Group is the City of London’s 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/Yen’s 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 world’s leading ‘open source’ research cooperative into climate change economics. Z/Yen created and runs the City of London’s Global Financial Centres Index (see the Members Area for more details).

Z/Yen Financial Services Research Studies	Dates
Anti-Money Laundering Requirements: Costs, Benefits and Perceptions – City of London Corporation	2005
Best Execution Compliance Automation – research into trade anomaly detection for Sun Microsystems, London Stock Exchange and five brokers	2005 to 2007
CCP Consolidation Impact Analysis – London Clearing House	2003
Cost per Trade Benchmarking – European Securities – consortia	2000 to present
Cost per Trade Benchmarking – Global FX and Money Markets – consortia	2001 to present
Cost per Trade Benchmarking – Global OTC Derivatives – consortia	2000 to present
Cost per Trade Benchmarking – USA Securities – consortia	2003 to present
Effects of Moving to Anonymous Counterparty Trading & Reinsurance Costs – London Stock Exchange	1998
Evaluation of Competitive Stock Exchange Systems – Advantage West Midlands	2004
Institutional Investment And Trading In UK Smaller Quoted Companies – Quoted Companies Alliance	2002
Online Gambling Effects on Finance – Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation	2004
Operational Performance of Brokers – Asian Securities - consortia	2004 to present
Operational Performance of Brokers – European Securities – consortia	2002 to present
Operational Performance of Brokers – Global FX and Money Markets - consortia	2004 to present
Operational Performance of Brokers – Global OTC Derivatives - consortia	2004 to present
Operational Performance of Brokers – USA Securities - consortia	2003 to present
Operations Best Practice – Brokerage Costs - consortium	2005
Operations Best Practice – Corporate Actions - consortia	2003 to present
Operations Best Practice – Settlement and Custody Fees - consortia	2001 to present
OTC Derivatives Processing Costs – Deutsche Bank & 15 other investment banks	1999
Product Control Survey – product control functions for ABN Amro & eight other investment banks	2003
Strategy Canvas – survey of strategic factors for Deutsche Bank & eight other investment banks	2004
The Competitive Position of London as a Global Financial Centre – City of London Corporation	2005
The Financial Laboratory – research into risk visualisation - consortium of Barclays, Royal Sun Alliance, London Stock Exchange, City University & others	1995-1997
The Global Financial Centres Index – City of London Corporation	2006 to present
The London Accord – economic research into climate change investment opportunities – BP, City of London Corporation, 10 investment banks, 10 other parties	2005 to present
Trade Publication Study on Transparency, Liquidity and the Delayed Publication Rules – London Stock Exchange	2003

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