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Combined technology features policy administration with billing, claims and bureau reporting components; IDP clients Security Mutual and AFI commit to new solution.
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The obstacle to large financial firms' use of public clouds has been security, but industry groups and vendors are working to fix this. And internal clouds, protected within a firm's own firewalls, are under construction. By Penny Crosman
Online
Still-tight budgets and small IT staffs will drive Wall Street firms' preference for renting software rather than buying it. By Penny Crosman
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Institutional investors are already demanding more transparency from hedge funds. Not to be outdone, regulators are readying new rules for hedge fund reporting. By Greg MacSweeney
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With a plethora of proposed regulations in the pipeline, financial services firms are facing more strenuous audits and data reporting requirements that could result in penalties if firms get them wrong. By Ivy Schmerken
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Social networking is changing the way consumers, investors and traders interact and share information. But all companies are struggling to show how the technology is actually adding to the bottom line. By Greg MacSweeney
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Congress is working on legislation for OTC derivatives reform, but there is still no agreement on mandatory clearing of standardized instruments or on how exotic instruments will be handled.
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Congress and taxpayers agree on one thing: Financial firms cannot continue to make large, risky bets and expect a government bailout. Survival in 2010 will hinge on more-effective risk management processes and technology. By Penny Crosman
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Cloud 9's platform-as-a-service component enables developers to collaborate within IT teams to create reusable data integration and data quality mappings in the cloud or on premise.
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Amazon EC2
Business intelligence tools can deliver decision-making insight to areas on Wall Street that sorely need it, such as portfolio and risk management. The catch? Data has to be clean, accurate and organized (if not integrated), which means shelved enterprise data management projects may get ...
Hardware
Dark pools provide institutional investors with a valuable venue for trading large blocks of securities. But new regulations may change the way market participants interact with anonymous trading venues in 2010. By Greg MacSweeney
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Regulators are scrutinizing the surge in high-frequency trading strategies, which account for more than 60 percent of equities executions by some estimates. Charges of unfair access likely will continue to drive the HFT controversy in 2010.
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During the first few months of 2009, many financial services executives believed that it would be a lost year -- most expected the markets to continue to tumble, or at best tread water, and anticipated more bank failures, job losses and pain. 2010 couldn't get here fast enough.
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U.S. President Obama's push to improve math and science education for children has some heavy hitters for the younger set: Elmo and Big Bird.
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Barack Obama
The SIO To Go app sends realtime alerts to users' iPhones, notifying of attacks and potential threats to corporate networks.
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Apple
Put down that handset and pick up a wireless headset. We rate Bluetooth devices from Aliph, BlueAnt, MoGo, Motorola, Plantronics, and Samsung.
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Justin Rattner talks about the explosion of multicore processing, bringing security to cloud computing, and processor-based networking
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Intel
Top providers are touting new services. Yet many businesses that accept credit cards aren't ready for end-to-end encryption.
