Sibos Day 2: Typhoon and Crowd Sourcing [ Source: TechWeb ]
September 2009 - At the Sibos conference in Hong Kong Typhoon Koppu was the talk of the show. Also, Chris Skinner, chair of the Financial Services Club, discusses the future of crowd sourcing in financial services.
SIBOS Day 1: Payments Mkt Sees Impact of Global Finan Crisis [ Source: TechWeb ]
September 2009 - According to the findings in the 2009 Global Payments Report from the Royal Bank of Scotland and Capgemini, the global financial crisis has caused a decline in the overall global payments volume. Also, an IBM and S.W.I.F.T. study finds that risk mana
Sibos Video Preview: Risk Management Takes Center Stage [ Source: TechWeb ]
September 2009 - During the Sibos conference, Dushyant Shahrawat of TowerGroup is looking forward to hearing more about how the Asian economies are faring better than those of the U.S. and Europe, he said at the Camino-TowerGroup reception on the eve of Sibos 2009.
Daily Video Reporting from Sibos [ Source: TechWeb ]
September 2009 - Greg MacSweeney, Editor in Chief of Wall Street & Technology welcomes you to the first of a series of video reports that we will be filming at the Sibos financial securities conference...
Transforming the Payments Infrastructure [ Source: TechWeb ]
September 2009 - Financial institutions are systemically transforming their critical payments infrastructure in a variety of ways, including reducing costs; improving intelligence and analytics and partnering with third parties and other financial institutions.
The Goldman Sachs Trading Software Espionage Case [ Source: TechWeb ]
August 2009 - The arrest of programmer Sergey Aleynikov for allegedly stealing 32 megabytes of trading software code from his former employer Goldman Sachs has made front page headlines. Theft of proprietary software has always been a concern of Wall Street firms.
Microsoft's Capital Markets Partner Ecosystem [ Source: TechWeb ]
July 2009 - It's mind-boggling to think about the challenges facing today's capital markets: Increased information and data volumes, continual and growing product complexity, subsecond decision making (on trades as well as risk). Firms have to manage all of this
Solace's Unified Messaging Platform [ Source: Solace Systems ]
June 2009 - Solace's Unified Messaging Platform is the first solution that handles all the major types of enterprise messaging in a single purpose-built hardware platform, with a single API and detailed management and monitoring. The Unified Messaging Platform simplifies the messaging infrastructure, improves performance, reduces time to market for new applications and slashes operational complexity and expense. Solace's Unified Messaging Platform supports ultra-low latency data distribution, high volume fanout, persistent message queuing and WAN-optimized messaging, all ....
SIFMA: Performance Measurement Key During Crisis [ Source: TechWeb ]
July 2009 - With the markets down, managers are focusing on performance measurement to figure out how they can increase their alpha.
SIFMA: Low Latency Finally Comes Into Its Own [ Source: TechWeb ]
July 2009 - Financial firms need their data faster than ever before, and this year consumers (not just vendors) have finally understood the importance of low latency technology, according to TowerGroup Senior Analyst Tom Price.
IT Cost Efficiency During an Economic Crisis [ Source: TechWeb ]
June 2009 - Nasdaq CIO Anna Ewing talks to Wall Street & Technology about maintaining cost efficiency during an economic crisis without sacrificing technology innovation.
SIFMA: Driving Innovation During Tough Times [ Source: TechWeb ]
June 2009 - At SIFMA TMC, we caught up with Larry Tabb, founder and CEO of TABB Group, who talked to us about the importance of driving technology innovation during an economic downturn.
Lower Project Costs and Time of Technology Rollouts [ Source: Concert Technologies ]
September 2008 - The rapid deployment of nationwide technology rollouts requires well-defined processes, robust management skills, and a unique understanding of how to get the job done. Without a proven Technology Rollout System, you run a high risk of project complications that result in increased costs, missed deadlines, and an overwhelming burden on internal resources. This paper explains what a Technology Rollout System is, how it lowers costs and saves time without compromising quality, and provides essential ....
CA Inc. CEO John Swainson discusses the Economics of IT [ Source: TechWeb ]
May 2009 - Enterprise software management company CA Inc., CEO John Swainson discusses the Economics of IT, challenges facing the industry and how IT can help companies succeed in tough times.
TS-3000i TimeSync Web-based Clock [ Source: Amano Cincinnati, Inc. ]
May 2009 - Amano�s innovative TS-3000i turn-key web based clock provides users with automatic time synchronization for validated time. This clock will run on its own by employing easy-to-use resident time synchronization schedules with a back-up system that sends e-mail notification and SNMP trap alerts. It also generates time sync reports on events for a potential audit. The TS-3000i will provide the end user with savings in time, effort and money! Time synching clocks are used by ....
Top Data Center Challenges [ Source: TechWeb ]
May 2009 - Data centers for the capital markets still need to be located near the traditional market centers, such as New York or Chicago. However, the need for close proximity limits power availability options and is more expensive, notes Larry Tabb.
Custodial Data Interface Privacy and Security [ Source: Advent Software ]
April 2009 - Advent Software strives to achieve the highest possible level of participant confidence in the privacy and security of investor account information transferred via any Advent Custodial Data (ACD) interface. We operate a Tier IV, SAS70 Type II audited data center* in accordance with Title V of the Gramm Leach Bliley Act (GLB).** This means Advent maintains industry leading safeguards intended to ensure the security and ....
Building Distributed Applications Integrating the Trading Value Chain via .NET Framework [ Source: Microsoft ]
June 2007 - Many customers in the Securities and Capital Markets industry rely on products from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to obtain solutions for their business needs. These products usually come from different ISVs and they are based on different technologies. Very often, customers are confronted with significant post-purchase deployment and integration costs if they need various ISV products to communicate and exchange data with each other. This paper describes how Microsoft partners 4th Story, Digipede ....
Developing a Risk and Trading System on an Integrated Environment [ Source: Microsoft ]
December 2007 - Financial services organizations need to support the rapidly evolving structured products they offer their clients, but the solutions available can't always keep pace with the demands of the business. Employees working in the risk and trade management market have to contend with resource-intensive, monolithic systems, and frequently resort to using spreadsheets for products that don't fit with existing trading applications.
Aleri, Coral8 Executives Explain Their Merger [ Source: TechWeb ]
March 2009 - Don DeLoach, CEO of Aleri, and John Morrell, vice president of product marketing at Coral 8, share with us the reasons behind their merger and what it means for Wall Street customers.
Structured Products Gain Traction in Eastern Europe [ Source: Orc Software ]
December 2008 - Eastern European financial markets are increasingly looking beyond equities and other “plain vanilla” investment products. As markets mature, a move to more sophisticated investment products follows naturally. The current economic unrest has accelerated this trend. Trading in warrants, certificates and other structured products is now growing rapidly across Continental and Eastern Europe. From this follows an increasing need for technology to support “financial engineering.”
Orc Futures Spreading Webinar [ Source: Orc Software ]
February 2009 - Futures spreading requires speed and sophistication. As more and more firms seek to identify and trade on short-lived opportunities, trading firms are looking for technologies that help them gain an edge. Orc Algorithmic Trading is helping these firms to get that edge. This half-hour web session shows how firms are using Orc's algorithmic trading engine for high frequency, ultra low latency futures spreading.
Liquidity Risk Management - Good Practices for Broker Dealers [ Source: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd ]
February 2009 - The paper deals with criticality of adherence to good liquidity management practices by broker dealers. Liquidity is essential to the viability of broker dealer firms. Any risk posed to the timely and cost-effective supply of liquidity can be disruptive in many ways. Therefore, it is crucial for broker dealers to devise and implement appropriate liquidity risk management practices and strive to create a risk sensitive culture across their organization.
World-Class Risk Management Architecture [ Source: TechWeb ]
February 2009 - The current economic crisis has brought financial institutions back to the basics of generating revenue while mitigating risk. A unified network architecture maximizes computing efficiencies without impacting sophisticated risk analysis.