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Commentary
Content posted in April 2014
Closing the Quality Gap: Firms Look To Short-Term Corrective Testing Strategies
Commentary  |  4/28/2014  | 
Financial services firms are investing more to remedy post-event quality failure, but not enough to pre-empt failures at the source, writes Steve O'Reilly of SunGard Consulting Services.
Market Direction? Let's Call It: Confused
Commentary  |  4/22/2014  | 
The markets seem to be confused and continued to meander in March and in the beginning of April.
The Irresistible Rise of Agile Development
Commentary  |  4/16/2014  | 
Building responsiveness into the front office, agile development is becoming a market necessity, writes David Meitz, CTO at ITG.
The Pursuit of IBOR
Commentary  |  4/11/2014  | 
Achieving an accurate and consistent IBOR can be elusive for some investment management firms, writes Marc Firenze, CTO at Eagle Investment Systems.
Fast and Furious: High Frequency Trading Raises Hackles
Commentary  |  4/10/2014  | 
Michael Lewis' new book "Flash Boys" has whipped up a furious tornado of criticism about high frequency trading. But the market and regulators need to resist the urge to ban the practice and instead embrace the notion of high frequency monitoring and surveillance.
Video: The New Crisis Management Tool
Commentary  |  4/9/2014  | 
Financial institutions are already embracing video as a standard communications tool, so why not rely upon video as a primary tool for crisis management, writes Vern Hanzlik of Qumu.
Are Banks on a Collision Course with Data Privacy Laws?
Commentary  |  4/8/2014  | 
International banks and other global private entities need to ensure that they do more than pay lip service to the data privacy laws of sovereign states, writes Andrew Waxman of IBM's consulting practice.
Take A Look Inside A Microsoft Azure Datacenter
Commentary  |  4/7/2014  | 
Microsoft leverages decades expertise to make the facilities that house Azure some of the most efficient datacenters in the industry.


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