Public Cloud vs. Private Cloud: Which is Best for Your Wealth Management Organization?
A Wall Street & Technology Webcast

The usage of cloud computing has increased drastically during the past few years as wealth management firms have become more comfortable with the technology and have realized certain benefits. Today, many wealth management organizations are considering taking a bigger step to the cloud and are looking for insights into the benefits of private vs. public cloud. Join Wall Street & Technology's Editorial Director, Greg MacSweeney, Paul Rowady, Senior Analyst, Tabb Group, and Jason McDermott, Vice President, Financial Services, from NexJ Systems to discuss how to select and deploy wealth management applications for the cloud.

Topics include:

- Benefits of cloud-based technology
- Selection of public versus private cloud deployments
- Real-world examples of how organizations are using cloud technology to deploy Integrated Advisor Desktop

Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Duration: 60 minutes

Reference Architecture for Hadoop in Banking - Industry Perspective
UBS has been an early adopter of Hadoop and continues to test a number of data processing & analytics use cases. In this webcast, Executive Director at UBS, Dave Casper will discuss how Hadoop fits the overall Data & Architecture strategy at UBS. Joining Dave in this discussion is Abhishek Mehta, (Founder, Tresata) and Arun Murthy (Hortonworks) who will outline a template to design, build and implement a Hadoop powered Data Processing & Analytics Platform within the confines of an Enterprise Data Stack. Get expert advice on how financial organizations can introduce Hadoop into a traditional Banking data environment while symbiotically integrating with existing tools and technologies.

Delivering Real-Time Analytics for Proactive Capital Markets Risk Management
A Wall Street & Technology Webcast

In this Wall Street & Technology Editorial Webcast, learn how newer tools and systems are allowing capital markets firms to improve financial results, while meeting compliance mandates. During this 60-minute presentation, you will hear from the Aite Group, Informatica, and EMC about the latest trends and technology that financial firms are deploying in their quest to improve real-time financial analytics.

This webcast will cover:

- Real-world financial analytic challenges

- Tools and solutions to meet compliance demands

- Analytic strategies to improve financial/trading performance


Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET Duration: 60 Minutes

Today's Wealth Manager: Integrating CRM to Improve Customer Service
As the markets continue their rollercoaster ride, investor's anxiety continues to increase. Financial advisors are fielding more inquiries from their clients who are looking for information about their investments. In order to respond to the flood of inquiries from clients, financial advisors need to have the capability to view their client's complete investment profile in a single space and must have the ability to have customer relationship systems integrated across applications. However, financial advisors and wealth managers are often challenged by older, disparate systems that require multiple log-ins, duplicate data entries and other time-consuming tasks. Join this webinar to learn how new customer relationship management tools are allowing financial advisors to respond to client inquiries with world class customer service.

Wall Street & Technology's High Speed Trading 2011

• New types of trading strategies that can enhance and streamline systems to take advantage of nanosecond latency
• How smaller firms are able to leverage technology in order to compete in a market dominated by a number of well-established low-latency players
• Tools, tricks and best practices firms are using to make sure their systems can keep up with low-latency market data feeds in an increasingly fast market

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The Right Payment Data, in the Right Time, to the Right Place: Preparing for Compliance and Competition in Today's Marketplace
In the last four years, there have been over USD 2 billion in published fines for AML compliance and sanctions screen. Given new regulation and increased scrutiny due to worldwide conditions, there could be significant amount to follow. In order for banks to comply with new regulation, they need to provide the right data in the right time. This means getting the right data from the customers as well as to all the internal applications in a consistent manner. But compliance is not the only thing. In this webinar hear from TowerGroup, Informatica, and CapGemini on how to comply in a way that prepares you to compete and retain your clients throughout their lifecycle.

Banks Need Transaction-Level Insight Into Mainframe Systems to Meet New Transparency Demands
Banks Need Transaction-Level Insight Into Mainframe Systems to Meet New Transparency Demands During this complimentary, one-hour webcast, moderated by Bank Systems & Technology Editorial Director Greg MacSweeney, and featuring Gareth Lodge, Senior Banking Analyst at Celent and Hub Vandervoort, Chief Technology Officer, Enterprise Integration at Progress Software, you will learn about the challenges banks face in gaining visibility into core transactions across mainframe and other legacy systems and how line of business owners can now do so in real-time. Date: Thursday, September 29, 2011 / Time: 9 am PT / 12 pm ET

Netezza, an IBM Company and Revolution R Enterprise vs. the Cloud and R:
Comparing Performance of Distributed Computing Platforms Using Applications in Backtesting FINRA's Limit Up/Down Rules
This webcast is for statisticians, analysts and IT teams responsible for Big Data Analytics who are looking for ways to achieve greater innovation and leapfrog current performance.

Yale researchers Michael Kane, PhD and Casey King, PhD looked at roughly 24 billion trades from 2008-2010 to study the efficacy of the FINRA rules. This webinar will compare three techniques used to meet the challenge that timely analysis of this enormous volume of market data poses.

While each technique meets the challenge of this massively parallel problem, the Netezza, an IBM Company and Revolution R Enterprise solution brings analysis time from months to hours. Join the webcast to learn how they were able to innovate their models and extend their analysis using the integrated solution.

Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Duration: 60 Minutes

Web-Facing Applications Require Built-In Security
With close to half of enterprise vulnerabilities coming from web-facing applications, financial services institutions require automated solutions to proactively detect, discover, fix and protect private and corporate information. In this complementary one-hour webcast, you will learn how leading financial institutions are using software and processes that help developers and security professionals “build in” application security during the application development process. We will also share the benefits of building security into the software lifecycle and how you can make web applications more secure.

Transforming the Mortgage Loan Capture Process
At this free webcast, moderated by Bank System & Technology Editorial Director Kathy Burger, you will learn how intelligent capture and exchange capabilities can help your organization automate the entire mortgage loan process - linking back-office information processes, front-office knowledge workers, customers and partners to enable financial institutions to exchange information automatically with anyone, anywhere, in any format. Hear about an innovative approach that is helping banks achieve as much as a 76 percent decrease in loan processing time, 81 percent less labor and staff required for initial processing, and 83 percent staff required for document separation and indexing.

Effective and Proactive Debt Management

A Bank Systems & Technology Webcast

Join IBM and Bank Systems & Technology for an in-depth discussion about debt management, featuring a case study on successful student-debt management from loan guarantor American Student Assistance (ASA®) and systems integrator Princeton Blue.

Attend this webcast and learn:

- Tools, rules and methods proven to be successful at risk mitigation and collection abatement.
- How intelligent BPM engines with proven case logic can highlight and escalate loans that exhibit challenges to debt service.
- Insight into how BPM and intelligence engines combined with best-practices help manage customer relationships, making direct contributions to controlling costs for loans in danger of non-compliance.

Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Duration: 60 Minutes