The Investment Industry for IT Practitioners (eBook)

An Introductory Guide

Andrew Bradford (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012 | 1. Auflage
408 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-119-94141-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Giving IT professionals in financial services firms a rounded and
comprehensive grounding in their knowledge of their industry, this
book offers a primer on the major financial instruments,
transactions, and processes, as well as a sound knowledge of the
principles of good IT management in the industry.

The book gives readers a clear understanding of equities, bonds,
currencies, listed derivatives and OTC derivatives. It explains
transactions in those instruments and the requirements of business
systems that process these transactions. Transactions covered
include (inter-alia) agency and principal purchases and sales,
loans and deposits, repos and reverse repos, stock loans; and also
the Sharia-compliant 'Islamic' transactions that may be used as
alternatives to interest bearing transactions.

Andrew Bradford gives an introduction to how investment firms are
regulated; offers an understanding of the STP
(Straight-through-Processing) concept following the trade cycle for
the transactions from order through to execution through
pre-settlement to final settlement; covers basic accounting
procedures for the transactions; and conveys the basic principles
of good IT management in the investment industry.

Autor

Andrew Bradford (Cheshunt, UK) is a Consultant and an Associate of the Securities and Investment Institute with expertise and background in back office operations, and systems analysis. He has contributed articles to a wide range of financial industry periodicals published in the UK, Europe and the United States including STP Magazine, Derivatives Report, Funds Europe, Journal of Securities Operations, Wall Street and Technology, Trading Technology Week and Futures & Options World. Andrew is the author of the SII IAQ Workbook IT in Investment Operations published in May 2007. Currently a freelance consultant, he has held positions in IT, Operations and Marketing for Merrill Lynch, ABN Amro, Sanwa Bank and ACT Financial Systems.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.2.2012
• Reihe/Serie: SII Series on Financial Services Operations
• Reihe/Serie: SII Series on Financial Services Operations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Finance & Investments • Finance & Investments Special Topics • Finanz- u. Anlagewesen • Finanzwesen • Spezialthemen Finanz- u. Anlagewesen
• ISBN-10: 1-119-94141-5 / 1119941415
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-94141-5 / 9781119941415