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Having the systems and capability to process mass amounts of data is a benefit to a financial firm, but the same capabilities could create data security and privacy risks.Be the first to comment
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When compliance is working, it often goes unnoticed and flies under the radar. However, the value of a good compliance program is hard to measure.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A UK banking commission is currently debating the proposal, with many in favor of punishing reckless acts with jail time.
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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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While the Syrian Electronic Army claimed responsibility for the attack, the FBI, SEC and CFTC are now investigating the hack.
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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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The appointment follows the departure of Robert Khuzami, who revamped the division in the wake of the financial crisis with a record number of enforcement cases.
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Vocal supporters of the new law include Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Cisco's John T Chambers.
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As financial firms go through budgets and expenses with a fine-tooth comb, they need to analyze data in an intelligent way.
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It’s “proxy season” again, that time of year when shareholders, at least lately, have been shaking things up.
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Firms are continuing to look for ways to better control the client experience. Here are some of the key issues they need to think about if they want to compete.
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Wall Street firms are increasingly using social media to communicate with customers and to make trading decisions. But is it working?
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There's nothing like a scorned ex-wife to bring down a powerful man.
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A lifelong regulator, Schapiro joined the government straight out of law school.
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As permanent and profound changes to the trading environment affect market participants, firms’ ability to scale effectively will increasingly depend on a changing and more intelligent relationship with technology.
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In the weeks leading up to his arrest, SAC portfolio manager Michael Steinberg apparently told friends he knew he would be indicted but that he expected to beat the charges.
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In the HFT game, the number of big-time players seems to be thinning. What can firms do to capture a piece of the shrinking HFT pie?
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Wall Street's reputation may be damaged, but don't blame all of the industry's woes on high-frequency trading.
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The door has opened for hedge fund admins — who, with few exceptions, continue to enjoy a view of the fund’s entire investment book — to offer new services traditionally provided by their prime broker.
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Opaque financial products brought on the 2008 financial crisis. Opaque technology might bring about the next.
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Sluggish adoption of the technology keeps financial advisers a step behind mobile-savvy customers.
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Mobile is becoming so pervasive that only after the mobile functionality is developed are firms thinking about how to apply that same functionality to desktop browsers.
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Financial firms need to take an active role in adopting and governing OSS's broader usage, according to Black Duck Software's CEO.
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As the size of the data warehouse grows, Wall Street firms must invest as heavily in data analytics as they do hard disks.
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To avoid a future that repeats the past, organizations need to establish core tenets for how they approach contracts and manage the IT supply chain.
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IT workers have reasons to be optimistic about their careers, after two reports say salaries are increasing and technologists are in high demand.
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To keep pace with regulatory changes, capital markets should adopt the B2C industry's DevOp approach where organizations make numerous production releases per day, writes Sungard Global Services' David Chapman.
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Microwave networking can deliver a significant speed advantage over fiber for high frequency trading applications between cities such as Chicago and New York, writes Travis Mitchell of Aviat Networks
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Leading front-end trading applications in FX, fixed income and OTC derivatives have moved quickly to adopt HTML5. But this is no technology fad, writes Mazy Dar, CEO of OpenFin.
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After underestimating the strength of Hurricane Sandy, financial firms need to consider 'risk scenario planning' as a tool for forecasting what can go wrong in the future, writes author and risk analyst Andrew Waxman.
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FATCA becomes effective on January 1, 2014. Sitting back and waiting for further clarification of the requirements is not an option.
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Managing customer interactions across channels is a challenge for all financial firms. Customer experience management platforms can help streamline the customer's experience.
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Business users and executives in financial services will eventually demand data visualization to make their workflow more productive.
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Understanding the underlying concerns of data analysis is a good first step for firms looking to more clearly analyze complicated data sets, spot patterns and answer key questions.
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Looking ahead to 2013, European regulations are stepping up the need for automated surveillance and monitoring solutions on the buy side, writes SunGard Protegent's, Magnus Almqvist, who says firms must have audit trails and quick answers to questions on suitability and personal dealing.
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After more than a decade of DDoS attack evolution, the information security profession employed by banks, is still is not equipped to deal with the problem, argues Jeffrey Lyon, president of Black Lotus.
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