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TGIF: BlackBookBerry
New device aimed at those who can't get a BlackBerry.
Outsourcing Provides New Opportunities for Trust Industry
To increase profitability and improve the client value proposition of their trust departments, banks can turn operations outsourcing and investment management outsourcing, according to a new report by Celent.
FXAll and Onix Partner
Onix hedge fund and asset management clients to use FXAll's foreign exchange platform.
TrendPoint Offers Suggestions for Greener Data Centers
Data center energy management company TrendPoint Systems is offering a four-point plan for "green data centers". Although the plan leads into a pitch for TrendPoint's product, it includes some helpful hints for those who find their data centers to be energy hogs.
Moss Adams Chooses Advisor’s Client Acquisition Software
Solution to assist with portfolio construction, portfolio diagnostics and proposal generation.
TowerGroup Warns That Without Innovation, Fee Revenue Processing Costs Will Skyrocket
If firms fail to innovate their methods to process fee revenue for managed accounts, their costs could jump from the current $20.6 million to $42.4 million by 2012, according to a new report by the TowerGroup.
1010data Introduces Open Database Connectivity Driver
New driver allows users to layer business intelligence on existing applications.
New Verari Blades Combine Processing and Storage
Latest DataServer blades designed for Web 2.0, cloud and file system applications.
Consolidated Clearing: Obstacles and Evolution
Cost savings and efficiency have the buy side taking note of consolidated clearing. But will widespread adoption happen?
Avalon Alpha-Testing Foreign Exchange ECN
ECN intended to improve institutional liquidity in the foreign exchange market.
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Service to help Savvis's hosting clients to find a market for ISE-traded options.
Nvidia Releases New Programming Environment for Graphics Processors
CUDA 2.0 intended for complex computational problems.
Adobe, GemStone to Speed Global Workflows, Document Sharing
As Wall Street firms continue to open new offices in foreign countries and to outsource around the globe, one challenge for IT departments is to make sure that work, data and documents flow quickly and smoothly among widespread offices and data centers. Adobe and GemStone are announcing today a joint solution designed to meet this challenge: they've embedded GemStone's GemFire data virtualiza
TGIF: iFrustration
iPhone kinks are starting to bother even people who don't have them.
State Street Completes Derivatives Processing Hub
OTC Hub provides customer reporting, electronic trade flow and reconciliation of positions and cash flows between middle and back office.
New Bloomberg Tool Tracks Weather’s Effect on Investments
Intended to let investors, traders and financial execs factor weather forecasts into their equity, commodity and derivative strategies.
Northern Trust Launches Performance Dashboard for Institutional Investors
Includes daily and monthly analysis of risk, return and market value.
Corvil Unveils Newest Latency Monitor
Product designed to meet analytical requirements of high frequency electronic trading.
Janney Montgomery Scott Announces New CIO
Robert J. Thielmann, formerly of AIG, will assume duties of CIO, vice president and management committee.
NYC Brokerage Offers Customers Access to BIDS
Minority-owned Penserra Securities to give clients access to dark-pool liquidity.
Weeden & Co.
The trading floor at Weeden & Co.'s Greenwich, Conn., headquarters is designed to foster teamwork, cooperation and communication among the full-service institutional broker's 75-plus traders, sales traders and assistants on the floor, and about 25 other traders in its regional branches in Boston, San Francisco and Chicago.
SEC Unveils IDEA, Successor to 1980s-Era EDGAR Database
"IDEA" will make company and fund information interactive, giving investors faster and easier access to data.
Marshall & Ilsley Selects Calypso Software
Calypso Solution will support front-to-back derivatives trading.
Huron Consulting Strengthens E-discovery Services with New DSL Partnership
Electronic document discovery has become one of the single largest components of litigation, with the review portion accounting for up to 80 percent of the $3 billion a year e-discovery marketplace, Huron said.
RIA Firm Fintegra Launches FundQuest’s Platform
The Institutional Spectrum platform features five different types of mutual fund managed accounts, as well as a separately managed account and individual stocks and bonds.
Sectoral Asset Management To Lease Trading, Portfolio Management Software
Firm to use hosted LongView software from Linedata Services.
Financial Insights Promotes Web 2.0 Collaboration between top C-Level Executives and Analysts
The tool will enable senior executives and research analysts to communicate via secure video conferencing, IM, and SMS.
Bank of Beijing Adopting VoIP On Its Trading Floor
Purchasing new trader turrets from IPC.
Knowledge Process Outsourcing Represents the Next Generation of Outsourcing Services
As financial services expertise increases among BPO providers, knowledge process outsourcing is the next step.
Coral8 Releases Version 5.4 of CEP Solution
The new Coral8 Engine release provides greater configuration flexibility, while the Coral8 Portal was enhanced to add more visualization options, including drill-down support.
DTCC Launches New ID Net Service
The new service streamlines clearance and settlement, cuts customer costs and reduces fails associated with affirmed institutional equity trades, the utility said.
Financial Firms Try to Protect Themselves Against the Insider Job
Following the Societe Generale scandal, Wall Street firms have reexamined their internal security practices. But a number of factors, including the economic downturn and business pressures, continue to make rogue employees a very real threat.
OptionXpress Unveils New Smart Router
XpressRouter simultaneously monitors quotes from all U.S. options exchanges and queries alternative liquidity sources to find the best prices.
TGIF: Is it Time for a Performance Review?
In the UK version of The Office, David Brent (Ricky Gervais) gives a performance review of accountant Keith, which soon turns into every boss's nightmare.
Rosenblatt Securities Signs Sponsor Agreement with BIDS Trading
Later this year, BIDS Trading and the NYSE Euronext plan to launch a joint venture that will allow dark orders to interact with both displayed and reserve orders from the NYSE.
5 Steps for Stopping the Insider Threat
Guardium's Phil Neray offers guidance on preventing insider data theft.
EuroCCP and SWIFT Join Forces on Turquoise
Access to EuroCCP - which launches Aug 15 - via SWIFT means Turquoise members can reuse existing network infrastructure.
Next Generation Automated Phone Technology Market to Soar
Outbound IVR originates and executes outbound calls with customers. According to a new Datamonitor report, the North American Market will grow 20% in the next five years.
Wolters Kluwer Launches Cost Basis Reporting Resource Center
The resource center provides news and updates related to the proposed legislation, insight from financial and legal experts who are continually monitoring its developments in Congress, and information about technology that can help them prepare.
Financial Firms Struggle To Keep up with AML Demands
AML compliance is recognized as a vital issue by regulators and financial institutions alike. But there is also a constant evolution in compliance strategies and regulations, according to a new Aite Group report.
Keeping Tabs: Industry Moves and Appointments
Putnam and Wen join FXall; Fuse joins 29West; Northern Trust promotes Severs; McCoy joins National Stock Exchange.
Fidelity Introduces E-Signature for RIAs to Automate Account Opening
Fidelity's e-signature capability will allow advisors and their clients to electronically sign all documents, including Fidelity and advisor-specific forms, required to establish and fund a brokerage account.
Now Is the Time for Firms to Position Themselves for the End of the Economic Downturn
Downturns happen -- the industry will survive. But firms need to adjust to changing market dynamics.
EuroCCP to Launch Clearing & Settlement System Friday
The DTCC subsidiary ultimately expects to provide clearing and settlement services in more than 20 separate markets in Europe.
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