Unlock Your Competitive Advantage
Many financial institutions have invested at some point in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technology. But changing business priorities have halted many of these efforts mid-stream, leaving millions in possible benefits on the table. Download this whitepaper and find out how to unlock the wealth of your existing knowledge to remain competitive.
- Choose Segment:
- Banking
- |
- Insurance
- |
- Capital Markets
- |
- Trading/Exchanges
- |
BPM for Dummies
[ Source: IBM ]
August 2012-
Unleash the power of technology as a competitive advantage! Learn how your entire enterprise can become far more agile, helping you meet your goals with Business Process Management (BPM).
Download Business Process Management For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition, now and learn how BPM creates value through growth, improved performance, better productivity, higher staff effectiveness, and better customer service.
You discover why changing to BPM now makes sense for your organization, how ...
How To Build a Mission-Critical Data Center
[ Source: HP ]
May 2012-
Infrastructures must be able to quickly and cost-effectively adapt to evolving needs. Unfortunately, many companies cannot achieve this response with their current data center network architectures. The traditional three-tier model of access, aggregation, and core switching is an operational nightmare.
This white paper unveils a solution that streamlines the design of next-generation data centers to ensure the superior resiliency, performance, and agility that enterprise networks now require.
Sponsored by:<...
Avoiding the 8 Common Mistakes of Windows 7 Migration
[ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
September 2011-
The recession put important things on hold for many organizations, like upgrading to new client systems. Now organizations such as yours are ready to upgrade and gain from better performance and efficiency by purchasing new laptops and notebooks with Windows 7 factory-installed.
Before you move dozens - or hundreds - of important business applications into a new environment, find out how other organizations tackled this challenge.
Download "Avoiding the 8 common mistakes of ...
Accountable Care and the Cloud: The Future of Medical IT
[ Source: Siemens ]
July 2011-
In this podcast, Dan Emig and David M. Hamilton of Siemens Medical explain how the cloud can help healthcare providers significantly improve business performance by shifting allocation of their limited budget and human resources away from lower-value back-office operations in favor of higher-value clinical and patient-facing services.
The cloud does this by 1) allowing healthcare IT organizations to leverage the economies of scale offered by shared, on-demand infrastructure and 2) providing turnkey access to state-of-the-art ...
Advanced Malware Exposed
[ Source: FireEye ]
May 2011-
This handbook shines a light on the dark corners of advanced malware, both to educate as well as to spark renewed efforts against these stealthy and persistent threats. By understanding the tools being used by criminals, we can better defend our nations, our critical infrastructures and our citizens. The "Operation Aurora" incident represents an example of how the threats have escalated, revealing how advanced malware is being used in a systematic, coordinated fashion to achieve ...
Creating a Timeline for Deploying Windows 7 and Eliminating Windows XP
[ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
February 2012-
Windows XP support ends April 8, 2014. Therefore, organizations must decide when to begin their migration to Windows 7, set a target date to have Windows XP out and define the scope of the project.
This research paper reviews Gartner's key findings and recommendations for deploying Windows 7.
CISO Guide to Next Generation Threats
[ Source: FireEye ]
May 2011-
Over 95% of businesses unknowingly host compromised endpoints, despite their use of firewalls, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), antivirus and web gateways. This situation-the new status quo-results from criminals leveraging multiple zero-day vulnerabilities, commercial-quality toolkits and social media to perpetrate next-generation threats. These threats move "low and slow" and use several stages and channels to duck traditional defenses and find vulnerable systems and sensitive data.
Read this paper and learn how to regain the upper ...
8 Things That Could Affect Your Business IT Security In The Next Two Hours
[ Source: NETGEAR ]
August 2011-
Discover the secrets over-priced security consultants don't want you to know. Network security is not just about preventing a breach, it's about making every working day as productive as possible by preventing external threats.
Where should you start? Download this security brief and NETGEAR will show you the 8 things to do to improve your security posture right now.
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise LAN
[ Source: HP ]
May 2011-
Major LAN purchases and upgrades should not take place without a full competitive review. This Gartner Magic Quadrant reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the major players; including, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, Extreme Networks, HP and Juniper Networks.
Trading Desk Of The Future: How To Pick The Best OMS/EMS
[ Source: TechWeb ]
December 2010-
Changing your EMS or OMS is a daunting task. Larry Cohn, CIO, Baron Capital discusses with editor-at-large Ivy Schmerken when and why firms should make the change as well as the biggest pitfalls of picking an OMS or EMS.
Losing Customers Through Poor Financial Website Performance
[ Source: Akamai ]
May 2010-
Poor website performance leads to dissatisfaction more often than any other factor, particularly in financial services. As financial institutions add more features and functionality, have the basics of site performance and reliability fallen out of focus? Download this research study to learn more.
The Forrester Wave: Complex Event Processing (CEP) Platforms, Q3 2009
[ Source: Progress Software ]
September 2009-
Forrester Research, Inc. has named the Progress? Apama? complex event processing (CEP) platform as a standout leader in "The Forrester Wave™: Complex Event Processing Platforms, Q3 2009"(August 2009) Report. In this detailed review of products, the Apama platform received the top score in current offering and market presence.
According to the report: "Progress Apama earned high marks for its event processing features, its development tools, and its business end-user tools, propelling it into its ...
Sinan Baskan, Director of Business Development at Sybase, on Information Delivery
[ Source: Sybase ]
July 2008-
Managing and sustaining a continuous flow of data in a low latency environment is critical to organizations in the capital markets industry. Learn about successful strategies for delivering information to the point of use, across multiple groups, so that actual portfolio and trading decisions can be made in real time.
Advent Moxy? - Trade Order Management System
[ Source: Advent Software ]
July 2007-
Debra Wentworth, Boston Private Value Investors, Inc., discusses the benefits of Advent Moxy®, from increased time savings to enhanced trading workflow and improved trading accuracy.
Trading Desk Of The Future: Trading Avatars
[ Source: TechWeb ]
November 2010-
In this video from the Buy Side Summit, Abe Cofnas, trading expert and founder of FX Dimensions, tells us about the Algo his company recently developed that determines position size based on expected probabilities of trader performance.
Top Strategies in Risk Management
[ Source: TechWeb ]
December 2009-
One financial services discipline that has taken a lot of heat has been risk management. Some experts say the beginnings of the financial crisis were allowed to form because firms didnt practice risk management correctly.
Low Latency and Private Optical Networks Equals Faster ROI
[ Source: Ciena ]
August 2008-
Financial markets firms are overwhelmed by market data and need to build applications and infrastructure that can deliver high performance and ultra low latency to source liquidity pools, execute trades, analyze risk and maintain a real-time order book. To be competitive, firms must receive data from direct exchange feeds and then push that data throughout the enterprise, explains Tom Rice, Research Director, TowerGroup. Firms of all sizes are turning to private fiber optic networks that ...
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.
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.
Big Data and Smart Trading
[ Source: SAP ]
September 2012-
The convergence of big data and smart trading is leading to the rapid development of new, profitable, and often fascinating trading strategies. These strategies extract and harness information from a myriad of conventional and not-so conventional data sources, often on a massive scale. Trading organizations employing these new big data trading strategies are searching for sustained profitability over extended periods of time.
This white paper explains what these strategies are and how to ...
IT Complexity Metrics - How do you measure up?
[ Source: CAPCO ]
April 2012-
IT Complexity is so important that 'learning through failing' is no longer satisfactory given that this form of complexity so clearly and harshly impacts the cost, delivery quality and flexibility of the IT landscape.
We now need a robust and functioning model for complexity measurement and mitigation. This paper describes how Commerzbank, in partnership with Capco, is deriving such a model. We also examine how it can be developed over time to provide ...
Uber Architect
[ Source: CAPCO ]
April 2012-
What does a Solution Architect do? In deference to traditional deliverable-based architect role definitions, Solution Architecting spans the SDLC. While SAs are responsible for some deliverables, they primarily configure the required building blocks of the working product. They make transparent a myriad of tough decisions, encourage stakeholder collaboration, break deadlock and resolve difficult issues. SAs have a "line of sight" from ideation through implementation. Figure 1 summarizes the major processes by Project Management Institute (PMI) function ...
7 Critical Questions for Financial Services Firms
[ Source: CAPCO ]
April 2012-
Despite uncertainty over the ultimate form and scope of the rules, smart financial services companies are moving ahead to prepare. Dodd-Frank is law, and many key provisions will be implemented regardless of how the next months' proceedings play out and political winds blow. The Volcker Rule will alter how banks trade and invest. The Collins Amendment will intensify capital requirements. The Lincoln Amendment will require some banks to spin off their swap desks.
...
IT Complexity: Measure, Model, Master
[ Source: CAPCO ]
April 2012-
IT complexity: A new metric to evaluate the impact of change
What if complexity was a discreet, measurable metric rather than a discretionary, ambiguous term? Could a complexity metric reshape the decisions and activities of a CIO?
The information technology field is filled with quotes and anecdotes about organizations trying to contain, explain and manage complexity. Often these words reflect an inclination to assume that if complexity exists, we should try ...
Sales and Service
[ Source: CAPCO ]
April 2012-
What are the forces reshaping the financial services industry?
Customer expectations are evolving and new channels are proliferating. Credit and market risks are growing. The lines between traditional and nontraditional banks continue to blur. These and other factors are having an unprecedented impact on the industry, compelling institutions to address competitive threats, solidify customer relationships, and strengthen fraud prevention and security measures.
How has the industry responded?
Forward-looking institutions ...
Real-time Data Feeds: Creating a Competitive Differentiator Through Event-Driven Trading
[ Source: Bloomberg ]
November 2011-
There's money in the microsecond. Traders today realize that market-moving insights can be gleaned from an ever-growing pool of unstructured data. Leading firms use complex strategies powered by machine readable news to compete in the low-latency space. Automated event-driven trading exploits market inefficiencies or volatility that arises in response to breaking news, economic releases and other events. While the average time it takes for news stories to move markets today is about 4 seconds, Bloomberg's Event-Driven ...
Trading Desk Of The Future: The Rise Of The Robo-Trader
[ Source: TechWeb ]
December 2010-
Will algos one day completely replace traders? In this video presentation, editor-at-large Ivy Schmerken talks to Tom South, IT director, Northern Trust Global Investments about what the trading desk of the future could look like.
Trading Desk Of The Future: How To Pick The Best OMS/EMS
[ Source: TechWeb ]
December 2010-
Changing your EMS or OMS is a daunting task. Larry Cohn, CIO, Baron Capital discusses with editor-at-large Ivy Schmerken when and why firms should make the change as well as the biggest pitfalls of picking an OMS or EMS.
Trading Desk Of The Future: What Lies Ahead For The Markets?
[ Source: TechWeb ]
December 2010-
Michael Levas, chief investment officer at Olympian Capital Management discusses new regulation with editorial director Greg MacSweeney and what the markets should expect in the coming months.
View All Categories
ADVANCED TRADING: ATS/ECN/Dark Pool, Algorithmic Trading, Block Trading, Cross Asset Trading, Data Latency, Derivatives, Market Data, OMS/EMS, Trading Infrastructure/Technology, Trading Regulations/Compliance, Trading/Exchanges, Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA)
INSURANCE: Architecture/Infrastructure, Claims, Customer Insight/Business Intelligence, Distribution, Management Strategies, Policy Administration & Management, Regulation/Financial Systems, Security/Risk Management
BANKING: Architecture/Infrastructure, Channels, Core Systems, Customer Insight/Business Intelligence, Payments & Cards, Regulation/Compliance, Risk Management/Security
CAPITAL MARKETS: Asset Management, Compliance, Data Latency, Data Management, Data Security, IT Infrastructure, Operations, Risk Management, Wealth Management
Featured Trading & Exchanges Resources
