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Risk Management: Buy-Side Firms See Rising Focus on Risk Control As Events Make Value Propositions Crystal Clear. The ongoing transformation and improvement of risk management platforms and analytics will continue to play out for as long as five to 10 years, compelling a deeper focus on both IT and organizational structures.

Industry Alert: Operational Efficiency Demands Driving IT Goals. Reducing risk and realizing operational efficiencies are seen as the two key drivers of IT projects in the securities and investment industry this year. IT spending budgets in the US securities and investment industry are projected to grow at a compound rate of 9.8 percent through 2011.

Spotlight: Thomas Zeeb, Head of Customer Relations, Europe, UK and USA, Clearstream. International central securities depositories like Clearstream are looking for further direction from the European Central Bank on how its Target 2 Securities initiative will change how cross-border equities trades are cleared and settled.

CEO Insights: Financial Firms ‘On Track’ to Triple Values by 2013. Despite “toxic and turbulent” market conditions, the financial services industry remains on track for tripling its value over the 10-year period ending 2013, says the head of the North American Corporate Strategy Practice at management consultancy Oliver Wyman.

Asian Markets Monitor: Low-Touch Electronic Trading Is on the Rise in Japan. Electronic or portfolio trades will account for more than half of all Japanese equity trading volume by 2010, according to projections of Japanese and Asian institutional investors reported in a new study by Greenwich Associates.

The News Network: Pipeline To Accept Orders From Fidessa LatentZero OEMS; ISE, Eurex Will Jointly Develop Options Trading System; Linedata Integrates NYFIX Millennium, NEXAS Algorithms; AFA Links Its Impact Pro OMS With Goldman’s REDIPlus; Panopticon To Provide Visualizations In Advent’s Geneva; Reuters Debuts Data Feed Direct Options Price Reporting.