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Broadridge is a leading outsourcing provider to the financial industry, offering the most comprehensive range of fully-integrated solutions to meet the operational needs of banks and broker/dealers globally. We offer advanced systems and services that are dependable, scalable, and cost-efficient, enabling our clients to increase productivity, mitigate risk, and diminish operating costs. Our solutions provide full front, middle, and back-office support including global securities processing, investor communications, and fully-compliant document management and archival. Outsourcing to Broadridge allows your firm to streamline operations, lower costs, and dedicate resources to core business activities.
Contact: Sunnie Giles, Senior Vice President - Global Marketing, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., One Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016 . . . 888.237.1900 . . . info@broadridge.com . . . www.broadridge.com
The difficult economic environment and the severe dislocations in markets worldwide present unique opportunities, challenges and issues regarding fixed income securities, structured finance, synthetic and hybrid products, whole loans, and derivatives. Now, more than ever, financial market participants need legal advisors with the knowledge and expertise to navigate the complex array of contractual rights, financial structures, and bankruptcy and regulatory issues associated with such financial instruments. Long recognized as an international leader in the fixed income and debt capital markets, attorneys from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP possess that expertise. With our renowned capital markets practice and the support of an expert team of colleagues with broad experience in tax, securities and commodities regulation, bank and broker/dealer regulation, bankruptcy, and real estate, Cadwalader is equipped to deal with every category and type of financial asset.
Contact: Robert O. Link Jr., Managing Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, One World Financial Center, New York, NY 10281-0006 . . . 212.504.6000 . . . 212.504.6666 . . . robert.link@cwt.com . . . www.cwt.com
Dechert’s Financial Markets Recovery Task Force employs a global, multi-dimensional, team approach to counsel clients in formulating creative strategies and in implementing innovative solutions to meet the unprecedented challenges posed by the historic reshaping of the global capital markets in the wake of the current financial crisis. We regularly advise banks, broker-dealers, funds, investment managers, insurance companies and other financial institutions in connection with all aspects of the emerging legal framework and the various programs being established to address the global financial crisis.
Contact: Cynthia J. Williams, Partner, Dechert LLP, 200 Clarendon Street, 27th Floor, Boston, MA 02116 . . . 617.654.8604 . . . cindy.williams@dechert.com . . . www.dechert.com
Choosing the correct maintenance service provider for your organization’s IT equipment is an important step in providing a sound business continuity program. Delta Computer Group is a third- party maintenance company with 18 years of experience providing computer hardware maintenance across all manufactures platforms. The value in choosing Delta Computer Group as your maintenance provider helps maintain service levels to support your business community’s requirements and control your budgets reducing present and future spend. Paying less for maintenance, vendor consolidation, accountability and no hidden agendas are benefits of choosing Delta for hardware maintenance. Third –party maintenance with Delta Computer Group is a viable option for companies as it offers not just a less expensive but different type of service. Contact: www.deltacomputergroup.com
Contact: John Sullivan, VP, Delta Computer Group, 4 Dubon Court, Farmingdale, NY 11735, USA . . . 631-845-0400 . . . jsullivan@deltacomputergroup.com . . . www.deltacomputergroup.com
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For financial professionals, the thirst for fast and trustworthy information is unquenchable. Whether it’s a wealth manager contacting prospects, a trader taking big positions or a fund manager rebalancing a portfolio, market participants require a wide range of news, delivery and customizable solutions.
Dow Jones is one of the world’s most innovative solutions providers for financial enterprises. We filter, aggregate and integrate our content into your existing workflow, applications, and online channels, provide robust business development tools, deliver ultra low latency data feeds, and offer flexible delivery options that let you receive Dow Jones content on the market data platforms that work best for you.
With our global reach, renowned editorial expertise, fast delivery, and integration experience, Dow Jones brings market-focused news, information and data to financial professionals that give you assurance in your market decisions and a real-time advantage in creating opportunities.
Contact: www.solutions.dowjones.com
ICAP is the world’s premier voice and electronic interdealer broker, delivering specialist intermediary broking services to trading professionals in the wholesale financial markets.
The group offers a broad range of over the counter financial products and services in Interest Rates, Credit, Commodities, Foreign Exchange and Equities, and is the source of global market information and commentary for professionals in the international financial markets.
We are active in both established and emerging markets. Our reach and organisation are global, while providing a local response to customer needs.
Our electronic networks deliver global connectivity to customers seeking unparalleled liquidity and flow in an orderly marketplace. From pre- to post-trade, ICAP sets new standards for both voice and electronic broking.
ICAP operates offices in the key financial centres of London, New York and Tokyo plus 21 other locations globally with a multi-cultural and multi-national workforce of more than 3,500 employees worldwide.
For more information, visit www.icap.com.
Contact: Chris Ferreri, Managing Director, Hybrid Trading, ICAP, Harborside Financial Center, 1100 Plaza 5, 12th Floor, Jersey City, NJ 07311 . . . 212.815.9070 . . . Chris.Ferreri@us.icap.com . . . www.icap.com
Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) is a leading global provider of financial market data, analytics and related services to financial institutions, active traders and individual investors. The Company's businesses supply real-time market data, time-sensitive pricing, evaluations and reference data for millions of securities traded around the world, including hard-to-value instruments. Many of the world's best-known financial service and software companies subscribe to the Company's services in support of their trading, analysis, portfolio management and valuation activities.
Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data provides global securities pricing, evaluations and reference data designed to support financial institutions’ and investment funds' pricing activities, securities operations, research and portfolio management. Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data collects, edits, maintains and delivers data on more than 6 million securities, including daily evaluations for approximately 2.5 million fixed income and international equity issues. Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data specializes in ‘hard-to-get’ information and evaluates many ‘hard-to value’ instruments.
Contact: William Ward, Director, Evaluated Services, Interactive Data Corporation, 100 William Street, 17th floor, New York, NY 10038 . . . 212.771.6827 . . . william.ward@interactivedata.com . . . www.interactivedata.com
IMR specializes in the placement of permanent, temporary, and consultant employees within financial services. We specialize in: Equity Operations, Fixed Income Operations, Prime Brokerage, Asset Management, Technology, Derivative Products, Hedge Fund Fields, Trade Support, Risk Analysis, Sales, Accounting and Finance. Since 1990, we’ve earned a reputation for excellence in finding candidates that resolve current situations and become important decision makers in the future.
We currently have offices in New York and Charlotte. Through our network of offices we have successfully relocated candidates to opportunities of their choice across the country in both permanent & consultant situations.
As a strategic partner with clients, IMR is committed to providing a prompt and effective response to staffing requirements, and an in-depth understanding of business needs. This enables IMR to build strong and lasting bonds, by solving immediate staffing needs and by placing quality candidates that become instrumental to the success of our clients.
Contact: Joseph M Sullivan, President, International Market Recruiters, 55 West 39th St, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10018 . . . 212.819.9100 . . . imr@goimr.com . . . www.goimr.com
Powered by 160 partners and a staff of over 1,000, J.H. Cohn addresses issues faced by senior executives, board members and their advisors. The multi-disciplinary Client Economic Recovery Team (CERT) includes top professionals from our nationally acclaimed Business Investigation Services, Corporate Governance Services, and Financial Services practices.
J.H. Cohn brings unrivalled resources and experience to bear on the business, legal, regulatory and compliance issues faced by our clients. We understand the difficulties of the current financial crisis having provided services to large multi-national clients in the areas of regulatory compliance, crisis management, business restructuring, process optimization, corporate governance, internal audit, M & A transaction support, litigation services and internal controls.
Working together, we can turn the effects of the economic crisis on your business into a economic recovery, seizing opportunties, mitigating risks and effectively managing new challenges.
Contact: Anthony Zecca, CPA, Partner, J.H. Cohn LLP, 4 Becker Farm Road, Roseland, NJ 07068 . . . 973.871.4020 . . . azecca@jhcohn.com . . . www.jhcohn.com
Lenox Financial is a Mortgage Management company specializing in the acquisition, modification and disposition of distressed asset relief funds in order to maximize fund growth and over all returns.
Contact: Jack C. Stevens, Chief Operating Officer, Lenox Financial, Six Piedmont Center, Suite 500, 3525 Piedmont Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30305 . . . 404.601.0153 . . . jstevens@lenoxfinancial.com . . . www.lenoxfinancial.com
First American CoreLogic is the largest provider of mortgage performance, property record and advanced analytics for the investor and capital markets. First American CoreLogic and their LoanPerformance solutions provide investors with critical transparency to determine and manage risk at the loan, pool and portfolio level. LoanPerformance Securities provides investors access to the most comprehensive source of credit risk and prepayment information available anywhere—with loan-level detail on the underlying collateral on over 96% of the active non agency mortgage-backed securities. TrueLTV exposes default and prepayment risk by exposing all open liens, estimating the current market value, and calculating current equity and the combined loan-to-value. LoanPerformance HPI provides the most comprehensive and timely set of monthly home price indices and median sales prices covering 7,575 ZIP codes, 958 Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSA) and 670 counties in all 50 states. LoanPerformance RiskModel projects the performance and volatility of securities as well as the underlying pools and individual loans by drawing on the mortgage industry’s most comprehensive database. LoanSafe 2.0 identifies fraud and collateral risk by simultaneous evaluation of property, borrower, income, identity, and market risk. More information about LoanPerformance and First American CoreLogic solutions can be found at www.loanperformance.com and www.corelogic.com.
Contact: David Stinner, VP Analytical Sales, LoanPerformance - A Unit of First American CoreLogic, 14006 Hartley Hall Place, Darnestown, MD 20874 . . . 301.216.9776 . . . david.stinner@loanperformance.com . . . www.loanperformance.com
Lowenstein Sandler is a nationally recognized corporate law firm with offices in Boston, New York, Palo Alto and Roseland, with more than 270 attorneys providing a full range of legal services. The firm’s commitment to its clients is demonstrated through its client-centered, service-oriented culture. Lowenstein Sandler attorneys are regularly recognized for excellence by clients and peers in national publications, including Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and The Legal 500.
The attorneys in our Global Financial Crisis Group, a multidisciplinary practice formed to assist clients in navigating through the current turmoil in the financial markets, are uniquely qualified to provide clients comprehensive and up-to-date analysis and advice on managing their businesses in this constantly evolving and interconnected global economy. The Group comprises a dynamic team of attorneys from a broad scope of practice areas: Bankruptcy, Capital Markets Litigation, Derivatives, Investment Management, Mortgage Banking & Finance, Insurance, Securities Litigation and White Collar Criminal Defense.
Contact: www.lowenstein.com
McKee Nelson was founded a decade ago by top-ranked lawyers who sought to create their vision of the ideal law firm – one that is relentlessly client focused and limited to practicing in those areas in which it can truly excel. Today, McKee Nelson is a top-ranked law firm exclusively serving clients’ most critical legal needs in the areas of corporate/finance, litigation/enforcement and tax.
Contact: Edward E. Gainor, Partner, McKee Nelson LLP, 1919 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036 . . . 202.775.4137 . . . egainor@mckeenelson.com . . . www.mckeenelson.com
At PricewaterhouseCoopers, we measure our success by yours. We are well placed to help you meet the challenges and opportunities of the US marketplace. We offer the perspective of a global organization combined with detailed knowledge of local, state and US national issues. Every day our more than 146,000 people in 150 countries go to work to help our clients succeed. From Dublin to Durban, from Minneapolis to Manila, our job is channeling knowledge and value through our lines of service and 22 industry-specialized practices.
Our industry-focused professionals in the fields of assurance, tax, human resources, transactions, performance improvement and crisis management help to resolve complex client and stakeholder issues worldwide. Our success in meeting today's business challenges rests on the way we approach our work. We call that approach Connected Thinking. We combine our unique perspectives, skills, and diverse backgrounds to create innovative solutions to today's most complex business issues.
Sound governance and transparency form the bedrock of leadership. We are committed to serving as a force for integrity, good sense and wise solutions to the problems facing businesses and the capital markets today.
Transparency and good standards of corporate governance--both in our clients' businesses and in our own---are central to our ability to achieve those objectives. And we aim to continue to achieve them from a position of strength as a leader in our profession.
Contact: Richard Reynolds, Partner, Internal Audit Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, 300 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017 . . . richard.reynolds@us.pwc.com . . . www.pwc.com
SecondMarket (formerly Restricted Stock Partners) is the marketplace for buying and selling illiquid assets, including auction-rate securities, bankruptcy claims, restricted securities in public companies and other illiquid assets. SecondMarket is comprised of nearly 1,500 members representing well in excess of $500 billion in investable assets. SecondMarket is a wholly-owned division of Green Drake, Inc. (Member FINRA/SIPC).
Contact: Samuel Hodges, VP, Business Development, SecondMarket, 26 Broadway, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10004 . . . 212.668.6675 . . . shodges@SecondMarket.com . . . www.secondmarket.com
Sheppard Mullin is a full service AmLaw 100 firm with more than 550 attorneys in 11 offices located throughout California and in New York, Washington, D.C. and Shanghai. Founded in 1927 on the principle that the firm would succeed only if its attorneys delivered prompt, high quality and cost-effective legal services, Sheppard Mullin provides legal counsel to U.S. and international clients. Companies turn to Sheppard Mullin to handle a full range of corporate and technology matters, high stakes litigation and complex financial transactions. In the U.S., the firm's clients include more than half of the Fortune 100 companies.
Contact: Melissa Shuman, Sr. Marketing Manager, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, 1300 I Street, N.W., 11th Floor East
Washington, DC 20005 . . . 212.332.3846 . . . mshuman@sheppardmullin.com . . . www.sheppardmullin.com