Have you seen the new report from Celent about Hedge Funds and how they are upping their IT dollars in 2011? The report, titled Hedge Funds 2011: Navigating Tumultuous Waters, came out last week and presents some positive feedback on where the industry is headed in the next few years. Which is a good thing
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Dodd-Frank IT Implications for Investment Firms: Disaster Recovery, Archiving
Guest Contributor: Mary Beth Hamilton, Director of Marketing, Eze Castle Integration At 800+ pages, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is far reaching and requires a serious time commitment to comb through. As the deadline approaches, investment firms are increasingly looking at the technology requirements outlined in the regulation and the implications
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Is Data More Valuable than Assets?
When someone hears the term “cyber crime” they will usually think of their personal information being stolen, for instance when someone steals your credit card information and goes on a shopping spree. However, cyber crime no longer strictly applies to personal information. According to a recent survey by McAfee and Science Applications International Corporate (SAIC),
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The Results are in. Vote for our FTF News Technology Innovation Finalists!
After sorting through an overwhelming number of submissions and after much deliberation and debate, the FTF News editorial team is pleased to announce the official nominees of the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards 2011. Voting is open to all qualified registered subscribers to FTF News (subscription is free). Voting closes on April 8th at 6
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FTF News Announces the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards 2011
FTF News is pleased to announce that nominations are open for the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards 2011. Nominations can be made by any registered subscriber to FTF News (subscription is free). Nominations close on March 24, 2011 and will then be considered by the editorial panel before a final short-list is presented for voting.
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Basel III: Planning for the Future
Guest Contributor: Joe Antocci, Account Manager, Avid Technical Resources While the world picks up the pieces caused by the destruction of the economic crisis, financial institutions face a variety of challenges – among these challenges is how to respond to the wave of new regulatory reform. Given that technology plays such a vital role in
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Dodd-Frank and IT Departments – A Super Team?
Since being signed into law this past July, Dodd-Frank has created many challenges for the Financial Services Industry. New requirements and compliance rules will be affecting nearly every sector of the industry from data management to proprietary trading, but what will the impact be on a firm’s IT department? IT departments are usually asked to
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So Much Desktop Virtualization, So Little Time…
Guest Contributor: Simon Rust, VP of Technology, AppSense With desktop virtualization expecting to achieve a revenue of $1.5 billion by 2014, an increasing number of financial institutions are investing a great amount of time and energy into this up and coming technology as they are beginning to see the value of centralized management to help
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Financial Technology Companies Expand in 2011
Wall Street bonuses may have fallen 8% in 2010 according to a survey conducted by the Office of the New York State Comptroller, but it’s no reflection on whether or not Wall Street plans to buy this year. There has been a good indication of growth in the financial technology space in Q1 of this
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Automating Governance, Risk & Compliance
This week I came across an article in Wall Street & Technology that discussed GRC and the need for firms to implement technology in efforts to increase their automation and increase their control over risk and compliance. With GRC being a topic that will be discussed at our 5th Annual OpRisk Conference, scheduled for Wednesday,
