Face-to-Face Events:
October 21-23, 2012
Advanced Trading's Buy-Side Trading Summit 2012

Online Events:
February 28, 2012
Optimizing Customer Communications and Content Management to Improve Profitability

March 7, 2012
Analytics: The Key To Avoiding Past Mistakes

News

TD Ameritrade's New Mobile App Scans for Investment Opportunities
February 22, 2012 The online broker released a new mobile app for the iPhone and Android enabling investors to scan a product's bar code with the smartphone camera to reveal detailed information about the public company during the shopping experience.
Merrill Lynch Sweetens Bid for Rivals' Top Brokers
February 22, 2012 Bank of America's Merrill Lynch has launched an aggressive recruiting campaign that aims to attract more top-tier brokers by offering lucrative bonuses.
Cloud Computing Is Still In Its Adolescence
February 22, 2012 Compare the adoption rate for cloud services to that for virtualization, and it's evident we still have a ways to go.
Lombard Risk Offers Solution for OTC Swaps Data Reporting
February 21, 2012 The risk management technology worked closely with U.S. clients to design a solution for OTC swaps data reporting under Dodd-Frank as of July 2012, but is eyeing European regulations with similar requirements by 2013.
BMO Capital Markets Expands Rollout of SunGard's GlobalOne
February 21, 2012 Already a customer utilizing SunGard's Global One in New York and London, BMO adopted the system in Toronto earlier this year to consolidate all global securities lending on one technology platform.
Google Gets Real-Time Data from LSE
February 21, 2012 The London Stock Exchange Group is to provide real-time market data to Google , bolstering the search-engine's Google Finance offering with free access to London prices previously only available with a delay.
Greek Debt Could Easily Derail Again - EU/IMF Report
February 21, 2012 Greece's second bailout programme could easily go off the rails and send the nation's debt rocketing back to today's unmanageable levels, a confidential study by its international lenders shows.
Chastened UBS uses 150th events to polish image
February 21, 2012 UBS is using its 150th anniversary to try to rebuild an image tarnished by a $2 billion trading scandal that struck just as Switzerland's biggest bank was starting to win back client trust after its near collapse in 2008.
Data Collection Arms Race Feeds Privacy Fears
February 21, 2012 Revelations last week that Google Inc, Twitter and other popular Internet companies have been taking liberties with customer data have prompted criticism from privacy advocates and lawmakers, along with apologies from the companies.
Italy Police Seize $6 Trillion of Fake U.S. T-bonds
February 17, 2012 Italian police said on Friday they had seized about $6 trillion of fake U.S. Treasury bonds in Switzerland, and issued arrest warrants for eight people accused of international fraud and other financial crimes.
Citigroup Whistleblower: I Have No Regrets
February 17, 2012 It wasn't Sherry Hunt's original intent to go public on the shoddy quality control at a mortgage unit at Citigroup Inc, her employer since 2004.
Ex-Goldman programmer's conviction overturned
February 17, 2012 A federal appeals court has thrown out the conviction of Sergey Aleynikov, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc computer programmer who had been convicted of stealing part of the Wall Street bank's high-frequency trading code.
Accelerate IT Delivery, Or Die
February 17, 2012 With technology evolving so rapidly, entering into lengthy enterprise IT contracts seems foolish.
University of Nebraska (Lincoln) Wins TradeKing's $100K API Campus Challenge
February 16, 2012 Winning application allows trading from any location via a browser plug-in or Android app.
Oman's Muscat Securities Market Launches Upgrade of E-Trading
February 16, 2012 The Middle Eastern marketplace migrated to NYSE Technologies' NSC V900 trading platform to boost speed and reduce the time needed for brokers to process transactions.
Nasdaq, BATS, CBOE Websites Knocked Offline by Anonymous-Backed Attacks
February 16, 2012 NASDAQ, BATS and the CBOE were knocked offline earlier this week by hacktivists. Nasdaq emphasizes that stock trading remained unaffected.
Dubai Investment Bank Renews Contract for Orc Trader
February 16, 2012 Arqaam Capital will extend its use of Orc Trader to support cash equity trading on three stock exchanges in the United Arab Emirates.
No Silver Bullet to Fight Security Threats
February 15, 2012 The complexity and frequency of cyber threats are increasing, but there is no permanent fix to ward off online dangers.
Tech Economy Is Booming in New York
February 15, 2012 New York City is doing everything it can to attract new technology companies and compete with Silicon Valley.
Mobile Payment Startup, Equity Financing Innovator Win SWIFT's Innotribe New York Regional Awards
February 14, 2012 P2P Cash Technology and Gust win New York competition and will compete in competition finals in October.
Poland's CCP Choose Nasdaq OMX's Sentinel Solution
February 14, 2012 KDPW_CCP, Poland's leading securities clearing house and central counterparty, has selected Nasdaq OMX to deliver its OTC derivatives clearing and risk management product.
Wall Street Disrupted: Silicon Valley's New Elite vs Banking Giants
February 14, 2012 More talented workers are opting for Silicon Valley over Wall Street, a shift from the days when financial services could simply attract the best and the brightest by offering hefty compensation packages.
Cloud Computing Can Drive Business Innovation
February 14, 2012 Cloud can enable new business models, but too many companies are just experimenting or improving existing processes and not taking full advantage of the technology, says IBM.
Empaxis Introduces Overnight Process Monitoring for Buy-Side Firms
February 13, 2012 New system provides added security for Advent and Axys users.
Apple Pops, Wall Street Firms Drop in Brand Study
February 13, 2012 "Financial services companies ... have been mishandling their corporate reputations even pre-Occupy Wall Street." The result: financial institutions ranked the worst in a brand-reputation study.
Rodman & Renshaw Acquires Assets of Investor Relations Group
February 13, 2012 The acquisition of IRG is complementary to Rodman & Renshaw's pending launch of DirectMarkets, an electronic platform linking public company issuers of private offers with investors.
TradeKing to Announce $100,000 College API Challenge Winners Wednesday
February 13, 2012 Students from 12 schools entered 29 applications in the contest, with some apps almost ready to go live in a production environment, according to TradeKing.
CME Group CEO: Don't Expect New Round of Exchange Mega-Mergers
February 10, 2012 Craig Donohue, CEO of CME Group, says a new round of exchange mega-mergers is unlikely, echoing the comments of other exchange chiefs.
Swift's Arkelis Teamed Up With Red Hat Linux
February 10, 2012 Fiinancial institutions can now run the outsourced Arkelis messaging solution on Red Hat Linux, an open source solution, more cost effectively.