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  • Articles by Greg MacSweeney

      • Fidelity NetBenefits App Provides Mobile Access to Benefits and Retirement Accounts
        By Greg MacSweeney | May 17, 2013
        New mobile app provides a look into Fidelity workplace and personal accounts.
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      • Bloomberg Spygate Lights Up Twitter
        By Greg MacSweeney | May 17, 2013
        News that Bloomberg allowed its reporters to access certain Bloomberg Terminal client data sent the Twitter world on fire. Then, news broke that Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan had contacted Bloomberg asking for an explanation, which fanned the flames. Here are some of the most interesting Tweets about the Bloomberg snooping scandal.
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      • Culture Clash: Transparency Versus Proprietary Data at Bloomberg
        By Marcus Holland, FinancialTrading.com | May 15, 2013
        The news media requires transparency and openness, while trading on Wall Street thrives on minimizing information leakage and protecting proprietary data.
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      • Financial Conduct Authority Selects Nasdaq OMX SMARTS Integrity for Market Surveillance
        By Greg MacSweeney | May 14, 2013
        FCA will use market surveillance technology to monitor financial transactions across asset classes.
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      • Carrier Pigeon or Twitter Bird: The Evolution of Corporate Actions Messaging Efficiency
        By Brendan P. Farrell, Jr., SunGard’s XSP | May 13, 2013
        The next evolution of corporate actions processing is underway, with an end goal of providing straight-through processing for industry participants and reducing the risks and costs associated with manual processes — while increasing efficiency through messaging automation.
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      • Big Data Could Transform Global Financial Markets
        By Greg MacSweeney | May 10, 2013
        Analytics unlocked by big data technology could change the way that financial services firms do everything from asset allocation to customer service, according to a report from BNY Mellon.
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      • The Security Holes Investment Firms Are Ignoring
        By Phil Albinus | May 09, 2013
        Hackers are becoming smarter, more resourceful and more brazen. Is your investment firm fortified against someone who has the power to bring your operations down?
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      • OpUSA Cyber Attacks: More Bark Than Bite
        By Greg MacSweeney | May 08, 2013
        Hundreds of smaller sites hacked or defaced, but financial institutions, government agencies and companies reported little disruption.
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      • Nasdaq OMX Now Offers Packet Capture Trading Data Through QView Latency Optics
        By Greg MacSweeney | May 08, 2013
        Users can now see minimum, maximum and average packet capture (PCAP) latency data for trade orders on Nasdaq OMX QView Latency Optics product.
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      • Financial Services Trust Index Debuts
        By Greg MacSweeney | May 07, 2013
        New quarterly TRust Index leverages proprietary data, analytics, news and social media sentiment to help determine confidence in the world's financial institutions.
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      • Text Analytics: Knowing Customer Sentiment Has Bottom Line Benefits
        By Heidi Boyle, Ernst & Young LLP | May 07, 2013
        Financial institutions need to do more with data collected during interactions with customers. Text analytics could be part of a complete data analytics solution that providers brokers, advisors and customer service representatives with a better picture of the customer.
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      • E-Trading Finally Takes Over Fixed Income
        By Melanie Rodier | May 06, 2013
        New regulations and low liquidity have fixed income markets going electronic.
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      • Dodd-Frank’s Third Anniversary: The IT Journey To Date
        By Henry Hilska, Virtusa Corporation | May 03, 2013
        The Dodd-Frank Act, which turns three in July, has created more questions for IT departments than it has answered.
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      • The HFT Debate: Looking for Consensus
        By Dan Solak, Thomson Reuters | May 02, 2013
        Although supporters of HFT and its detractors will always clash, market participants agree that one thing has certainly changed: the role of technology in the equities markets.
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      • 5 Reasons a Limit Order Book is Good for Electronic Bond Trading
        By Sumant Gupta, Head of Corporate Development, iTB Holdings | May 01, 2013
        As the US fixed income markets adapt to the exchange-like limit order book (LOB) way of electronic trading, there are a number of ways institutional investors can improve their current RFQ-dominant trade work flow.
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      • Cloud Adoption Rapidly Gaining Speed in Financial Services
        By Greg MacSweeney | April 29, 2013
        Many banks no longer want to run, support and maintain technology and prefer the speed and flexibility of cloud solutions.
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      • Industry Inertia Hampers E-Trading
        By Greg MacSweeney | April 29, 2013
        Institutional traders see some value in fixed income electronic trading, but a lack of a regulatory push and the desire to maintain existing business models is causing inertia in the move to electronic trading methods.
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      • Fidelity Focuses on Windows 8 With New Trading App
        By Melanie Rodier | April 29, 2013
        Key features in the app include a U.S. market summary showing quotes for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, NASDAQ Composite Index, Russell 3000 Growth Index.
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      • American Century Names New Head of Quantitative Research
        By Greg MacSweeney | April 26, 2013
        American Century names former BlackRock/BGI exec Vinod Chandrashekaran as head of quantitative research.
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      • Bankers Could Soon Face Jail For Reckless Behavior
        By Melanie Rodier | April 26, 2013
        A UK banking commission is currently debating the proposal, with many in favor of punishing reckless acts with jail time.
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      • Where’s The Growth In The Electronic Bond Market?
        By David B. Weiss, Aite Group | April 25, 2013
        The U.S. corporate bond market is notable for both its size and growth, but the electronic market isn’t growing as fast as some predicted.
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      • Who Was Really Behind The Twitter Hack That Wiped Out $136 Billion?
        By Melanie Rodier | April 25, 2013
        While the Syrian Electronic Army claimed responsibility for the attack, the FBI, SEC and CFTC are now investigating the hack.
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      • 4 Ways To Stop Twitter Hacks That Swing The Markets
        By Melanie Rodier | April 24, 2013
        The fake AP tweet this week left traders and quants scratching their heads over their vulnerability to breaking news on social media.
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      • CQG and Continuum Join Forces With AlgoFast
        By Melanie Rodier | April 23, 2013
        The AlgoFast platform will be able to integrate market data with its wide range of indicators to power algorithmic execution strategies.
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