Key to developing successful investment strategies is ongoing research, and this depends on the pace of investigating and understanding new ideas. Two variables can influence this speed of research progress: the organization of the research team and the tools they have available. In this session, Ben demonstrates how FFTW, the global fixed-income investment manager within BNP Paribas, used MATLAB to build such tools. They were built using standard functionality from MATLAB products, user-written toolboxes, community content from MATLAB Central File Exchange, and more advanced integration with native Java™. These tools have both allowed greater team collaboration and increased research bandwidth, together enabling faster research progress.