New Sybase Global Report Provides Outlook on Critical Regulations and Impact to Future Capital Markets Landscape

DUBLIN, CALIF. — NOVEMBER 11, 2009 — Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software, today announced the release of a global report on the regulatory landscape that capital markets will confront, including the key drivers that will shape the outlook for the financial services industry in 2010 and beyond.

Given the dramatic changes occurring in capital markets, the report, “New Landscape (Or Landslide?): Regulation's Impact on the Capital Markets and Technology Priorities,” commissioned by Sybase, aims to help its customers and the industry navigate these uncertain times. Authored by TowerGroup, a leading research and advisory services firm focused exclusively on the financial services industry, the report discusses how regulatory forces will change not only the rules, but the very manner in which securities firms operate. The primary initiatives regulators are likely to overhaul—but hopefully not stifle—are market-driven structures that have historically enabled efficient flows of capital within and across markets around the world.

“As changes unfold and the industry continues to adapt to this new terrain, it is inevitable that regulatory response to the global financial crisis will change not only the rules governing the industry but the very manner in which securities firms operate,” said Stephen Bruel, Research Director, Securities and Capital Markets at TowerGroup and author of the report.

Regulators will compel the financial services industry to shift priorities within their existing IT budgets especially in areas such as data management, complex event processing tools, and improved IT architecture in order to accommodate regulatory directives and heightened focus on near real-time information.

“The challenge is in designing trading and capital markets solutions that strike a balance between intervention and control, while leaving room for innovation and growth,” said Sinan Baskan, Director of the Financial Solutions Group at Sybase. “The impact of these new regulations will be felt by IT departments across the financial world. Sybase is at the forefront of providing solutions, such as RAP – The Trading Edition, to help customers increase the speed and frequency of their risk analytics, the scope of their data analytics, and to create a single view of reality across desks, asset classes and geographies.”
The report highlights the most critical areas which will be affected by regulation:

Increased intervention – the current laissez-faire regime will become demonstrably more activist
Regulatory harmonization – across and within national boundaries, even potentially conceding influence to supra-national bodies
Systemic risk management – a framework that depends upon data collection and analysis, of markets and participants, to manage the “too-big-to-fail phenomenon”
Holistic view – regulators will monitor the health of entities, activities, products, and asset classes across business units and geographies
Greater transparency – into products, processes, and data
Enhanced technology infrastructure – better manage, extract and analyze data and put into actionable form

To obtain a copy of the report visit: www.sybase.com/regulationsreport. For more information on Sybase’s capital markets solutions, visit: www.sybase.com/capitalmarkets.

Read Sybase’s Trading & Risk Technology blog at http://blogs.sybase.com/tradingandrisk/

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