OpUSA Cyber Attacks: More Bark Than BiteMay 08, 2013Hundreds of smaller sites hacked or defaced, but financial institutions, government agencies and companies reported little disruption.
Financial Services Trust Index DebutsMay 07, 2013New quarterly TRust Index leverages proprietary data, analytics, news and social media sentiment to help determine confidence in the world's financial institutions.
Text Analytics: Knowing Customer Sentiment Has Bottom Line BenefitsMay 07, 2013Financial 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.
Laundering $881 Million Is Now AcceptableMarch 08, 2013Senator Elizabeth Warren grills regulators (again) for failing to yank banking charters or criminally prosecute banking executives for their transgressions.
Bloomberg Vault Rolls Out Cloud Voice Recording ServiceFebruary 27, 2013Orange Business Services - Trading Solutions will power the voice recording capabilities for the cloud based service, leveraging Orange's expertise in voice communications.
Wealth Managers' Mobile DisadvantageFebruary 26, 2013Sluggish adoption of the technology keeps financial advisers a step behind mobile-savvy customers.
Best Reactions To Obama's Cybersecurity Executive OrderFebruary 15, 2013Is President Obama's executive order on cybersecurity causing hackers to shudder and financial institutions to breathe a sigh of relief? Here are some of the top reactions on the web to this controversial bill.
Anonymous to Goldman Sachs: Hack-y Valentine's Day!February 12, 2013The hacking group announced plans to take down the investment giant's Facebook and Twitter accounts and inundate their offices with bogus phone calls. What, no candy?
6 Most Memorable SEC ChiefsFebruary 01, 2013As critics debate whether President Obama's nominee for the SEC, Mary Jo White, is the right choice, we take a look at some of the past’s most memorable heads of the agency.
SunGard Acquires XSP, Beefing Up Corporate ActionsJanuary 07, 2013The acquisition of XciteckSolutionsPlus will add specific expertise in corporate actions processing to SunGard's capital markets business.
Wall Street's Funniest Responses to the Fiscal Cliff DebacleJanuary 04, 2013Thank goodness the Fiscal Cliff is behind us. Congress only had to bypass the "deadline" and go into overtime to get a deal done, keeping investors and the markets on edge the entire time. Here are some of the amusing quotes and Tweets that came across the
The Evolution of Outsourcing in Wall Street ITJanuary 02, 2013Asset managers are outsourcing more and more middle- and back-office functions, a trend that will likely accelerate in 2013.
Citi Internet Exec Peluso Departs for GiltDecember 07, 2012Citi board member and Internet executive Michelle Peluso has been hired as chief executive at Gilt Groupe, as the e-commerce company prepares for a possible IPO.
DDoS Attacks on Financial Industry: Ignoring Them Won’t Make Them Go AwayNovember 09, 2012After 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.