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Financial Industry Veterans DiFazio And Schenkman Join Mantara Board
The appointments made on proven track records.
Credit Agricole To Implement Brokerage Compliance Market Abuse Solution
Actimize solution chosen to aid in compliance.
TD AMERITRADE Launches New Mobile Trading Tools
Tools and services will be available on the Apple App Store
Update: Credit Suisse Talks About Reasons for Investing in FTEN
Cites proxmity to exchanges, low latency trading technology and advanced risk tools required by multiple prime brokers.
Ways to Make the Financial Crisis More Fun; Unexpected Uses of the BlackBookBerry
Earlier this month, David Letterman offered ideas for how to put the "fun" back in "financial crisis" and this week, the gang at Doogleheimer & Schmitt released a new video about the BlackBookBerry.
NYSE Harnesses News Filtering Technology to Retain, Attract Issuers
In its latest act of self-reinvention, to compete with and differentiate itself from among the growing throng of electronic exchanges, the New York Stock Exchange yesterday rolled out a new, free market data, news and alerting service for NYSE listed companies called Market Access Center.
Four Wall Street Giants Invest in FTEN’s Risk Technology to Expand Turnkey Solution to Hedge Funds in Europe and Asia
Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Credit Suisse take stakes to support multi-prime trend and multi-asset offering to hedge funds.
Thomson Reuters Restores BETA Systems Brand Name as Brokerage Platform
The system achieves record highs in trading and transaction volumes.
Saxo Bank Launches SaxoMobileTrader for iPhone
Online trading and investment specialist rolls out iPhone platform.
Research Spots Trend Toward Globally Managed Sustainability Programs
Cisco standardizes globally on SAS for sustainability management.
Is the bail out deal 'too sweet' for banks? (video)
When financially sound banks (and not burdened with so-called toxic assets) are running to the Fed to take part in the bail out, is that a sign that the deal is too sweet for the banks?
(Some) brokerages are finally getting into YouTube (video)
Entertainment and consumer product companies have been dabbling in social media since at least 2005. But until now, financial firms had been slow to react.
U.S. Hedge Funds to Cut IT Spending 40%, to $882 Million
New Tabb study finds drastic cutbacks to be expected, although more than 75% want to trade multiple asset classes electronically.
Scottrade Ranks Highest in Self-Directed Investor Satisfaction in 2008
Investment firm's top ranking in eight of the last nine studies confirms customer trust remains strong, says CEO Rodger Riney.
Capco Opens Swiss Branch
Capco closer to customers in Switzerland through new Swiss office and local team experts.
BNP Paribas Offers New Multi-Trading Facilities Services
BNP Paribas Securities Services' expands services to clients on multi-trading facilities.
Bank IT Execs Go to the Web First for Technology Information
How do financial services executives shop for new technology? Forrester senior analyst Ellen Carney completed a report today that looks into bank IT executives' research methods and found that their number one digital media source of technology information is "vendor, industry/trade or professional web sites" (cited by 90% of bank IT executive respondents). The ne
SunGard Enhances WealthStation Financial Planning
Enhancement geared to help advisors guide clients through uncertainty.
TheMarkets.com Launches Alert on Analyst Ratings Changes
New service summarizes upgrades, downgrades, initiations of coverage and drops from leading brokers.
Deconstructing "Too Big to Fail"
With increased regulation an almost foregone conclusion, the financial services industry will have to work to regain trust and credibility.
Fix Flyer Experiences Rapid Growth for Allocations
Wealth managers gain operational efficiencies with new solution.
Three weeks on, how is the bailout going? (audio)
Three weeks after the $700 billion bailout package, big name banks are finally getting their money, while a number of smaller regional banks have also signed up for federal cash. Economist Doug Elmendorf at the Brookings Institutions takes stock of the bailout and talks about how he expects banks to react to their cash injection, in a Marketplace segment from American Public Media.
ACTIV Financial and Marco Polo Network Unite To Simplify and Speed Inter-Market Trading in Brazil
Joint solution makes it as easy, cost-effective and reliable to trade with emerging markets as developed ones.
BondDesk Group Partners with IDC Financial Publishing
First electronic trading platform to offer a bank rating system to link industry leading bank ranking analytics with bank issued certificates of deposit.
Brandes Investment Partners Implements SmartStream’s TLM Reconciliations
TLM Reconciliations used as an enterprise platform delivering greater visibility to diverse portfolios.
Content Analytics for Individual Investors
As we continue to anxiously follow the wildly fluctuating stock market, YellowBrix, a provider of content analytics, announced the release of RightTrade, a service that makes predictions before the market opens each day and tracks the real-time sentiment of any publicly traded company.
DTCC Warehouse Releases Values for WAMU
DTCC Trade Information Warehouse provides values for Washington Mutual and Icelandic banks CDS contracts.
WAMU Credit Event Auction Conducted
Markit and Creditex release results of Washington Mutual credit event auction.
BridgePortfolio Partners With PIEtech’s MoneyGuidePro
BridgePortfolio forms partenerhsip and integration wih PIEtech solution.
UMAs Continue to Grow in Turbulent Financial Markets
Amid the worst market turmoil in a generation, high-net-worth investors are increasingly entrusting their long-term wealth to unified managed accounts.
The Rise of R: A Tool for Quantitative Analysis
The R programming language--- is an open source implementation of the S programming language, and is rich and well suited for data operations.
Natalie Portman, Rashida Jones, the Trumps Speak Out on the Fiinancial Crisis
Natalie Portman and Rashida Jones offer a solution to America's financial crisis and Donald and Ivanka share their insights on the economy. Also, the catchy song, "You've Got the Fed," and a faux news article about the NYSE from The Onion.
Natalie Portman and Rashida Jones Speak Out
The Sky Didn't Fall on Lehman Swaps, Yet (audio)
Hundreds of billions in losses were expected from Lehman Brothers' credit default mess. But the reality wasn't so disastrous after all -- more like $5 billion.
While Greenspan Pans Derivatives Price Modeling, Vendors Fine-Tune Their Offerings
In testimony before Congress today, Alan Greenspan placed the blame for the current financial crisis squarely on the use of mathematical models to determine value and risk for mortgage-backed securities: "It was the failure to properly price such risky assets that precipitated the crisis," he said. "In recent decades, a vast risk management and pricing system has evolved, combining the best insights of mathematicians and finance experts supported by major advances in computer and communications
Riskdata Collaborates with Hedge Fund Research
To improve hedge fund transparency and achieve selectivity in investment decisions, Riskdata publishes VAR For HFR Indices.
NYSE Euronext Launches TradeCheck
NYSE Euronext offers a low-cost service enabling customers to evaluate equity trade execution in a range of European markets.
Fidelity Blurs the Line Between Desktop and Mobile Apps
Fidelity's mobile application improvements include intuitive navigations and shortcuts for investors who can only use one hand.
The Dawn of a New Investment Banking Model
Rising from the ashes of the bulge-bracket investment banking model, a new breed of partner-driven merchant-investment bank is on the horizon, predicts Larry Tabb, special contributing editor.
Is This Crisis Different? Not Really
Despite popular sentiment that the financial meltdown of 2007-08 is unique in history, we can glean lessons from earlier crises to make a better, more stable financial system, says John Chen, CEO of Sybase.
KEEPING TABS: Industry Moves and Appointments
Scottrade named Joan Albeck the company's first CTO and hired Timothy Friedman as chief AML compliance officer. Janney Montgomery Scott named Robert Thielmann CIO and SVP. ING Advisor Network CIO Jim Clabby has taken on additional responsibilities including overseeing IT.
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