SunGard's Front Arena and Adaptiv Win Banking Technology Reader's Choice Awards.
LONDON, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- SunGard's Front Arena and Adaptiv have been named as winners in the second annual Banking Technology Reader's Choice Awards. Front Arena (http://www.sungard.com/frontarena), a cross-asset trading solution, was chosen as "Best Trading Platform/Order Management Product", while Adaptiv (http://www.sungard.com/adaptiv), a suite of solutions for enterprise-wide risk...

RBI leaves personal finance untouched.
Byline: Madhu T MUMBAI: Good news, however small, is always welcome. The Reserve Bank of India didn't do a US Fed, as was widely expected. The banking regulator has left its key policy rates untouched in its policy review on Tuesday. That means it is...

Multiple benchmarks leave markets with no rate clues.
Byline: Preeti R Iyer In India, benchmark interest rates have either soared over 200 basis points or remained rock steady, depending on which benchmark rate you are looking at. For a fixed income market that is still at an evolving stage, there are as many as half...

Yen-carry trades may hurt more.
Byline: Nishanth Vasudevan MUMBAI: Equity investors may have to bear the pains of further unwinding of "yen-carry trade" for few more weeks, as further possible repatriation of overseas profits by Japanese banks and companies, ahead of the country's fiscal ending March 31, could lead to further rise...

PDs open to rate risks, but have less hedging options.
Byline: Sangita Mehta Mr Gopalakrishan has spent most of his career in international treasury and foreign exchange related areas. He is also a director of the Fixed Income & Money Market Dealers' Association as well as of the Primary Dealers' Association of India. At one...

How to brighten dark side of negotiated dealing system.
The negotiated dealing system (NDS) for government securities does not have customers but hostages. It uses a monopoly on gilt clearing and settlement to deny competitors like NSE straight-through-processing. Competing bilateral electronic platforms have not been allowed. Its deals are exempt from stamp duty. It has a waiver for...

Details of Ford's Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2006 Financial Results Briefing.
DEARBORN, Mich., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ford Motor Company will release fourth quarter and full year 2006 financial results at 7 a.m. EST on Thursday, Jan. 25. The following briefings will be held after the announcement: At 9 a.m. EST, Alan Mulally, president and chief executive officer...

Townsend Analytics to Offer Electronic Trading of NYSE Corporate Bonds through its RealTick(R) Platform.
Direct Connection to New NYSE Bonds(SM) Trading Platform Provides Investors and Traders with Unparalleled Transparency and Increased Liquidity CHICAGO, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Retail and institutional investors and traders soon will be able to electronically trade fixed-income offerings from the New York Stock Exchange right along with...

Attraction guaranteed.
Byline: Haresh Soneji Equity funds have been outperforming the debt segment for quite sometime now. However, with interest rates beginning to look up, debt mutual funds become attractive for low-risk investors once again. Haresh Soneji spoke to Rajiv Anand, head- investment, Standard Chartered Mutual Fund, to know...

Legg Mason Renames U.S. Salomon Brothers Funds To Legg Mason Partners Funds.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Legg Mason, Inc. today announced that effective November 20, 2006, it had rebranded substantially all of the U.S. mutual funds, including most Smith Barney and Salomon Brothers mutual funds, it acquired in the Citigroup transaction into the Legg Mason Partners Funds family. It is...