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Securities Operations: A Guide to Trade and Position Management

The only comprehensive account of operational risk in securities settlements
Securities Operations focuses on the settlement aspects of a securities transaction. As financial analysts make a greater effort toward quantifying and managing operational risk, they are paying more attention to securities transactions in general and to the settlement phase in particular. While describing the practical issues, this book enumerates the different "back office" related risks potentially encountered throughout the settlement. Simmons also covers more advanced topics such as derivatives, trade compensation, internal allocation of funding costs, and operational performance measurement.
Michael Simmons (London, UK) is currently Head of Business Consultancy at Wilco International, a major software systems provider to the financial markets.
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This is the Fountain Parkway Post Office of Grand Prairie. It is located on the part of town that extends into Tarrant County.

Grand Prairie is a city of roughly 154,000 people located in the heart of the DFW Metropolitan Area between the city of Dallas and Arlington.

My office at home. Somewhere between tidy and neat, serene and chaotic. Mine, at any rate. The feng-shui is such that a dragon cannot annoyingly flit about the room like an outsized mosquito.