Carol E. Curtis is special reports editor at SourceMedia. She can be reached at carol.curtis@sourcemedia.com.

Fiserv Acquires AdviceAmerica
June 8, 2010 Fiserv acquired AdviceAmerica, a provider of financial planning software for independent advisors as well as institutions

Sounding the Alarm for Compliance Technology
June 8, 2010 There is an internal crisis unfolding in compliance, stemming from a clash between the high cost of technology and the...

All Eyes on the Chief Compliance Officer
May 27, 2010 Three words keep cropping up in the financial reform package passed by the Senate on May 20: Chief Compliance Officer

Rejecting Injections, to Protect Customer Records
May 20, 2010 If the Davidson case demonstrates anything to financial firms, it's that protecting servers and educating employees about...

Archiving Obligations Extend Beyond Email
April 29, 2010 Some experts say that if Goldman had used some of the newer forms of e-communication, it might have been spared the public...

Lumigent Launches AppGRC Software
April 28, 2010 Lumigent Technologies, an auditing and compliance reporting software company, on announced the availability of an...

LTech Launches New Cloud Computing Offering
April 20, 2010 LTech announced the launch of LTech CloudManage, a blended offering of technology and services designed to improve the...

Longtop Wins Contract for Enterprise Data Warehouse in China
April 5, 2010 Longtop Financial Technologies, a software developer and solutions provider based in Beijing, said on Monday that it has won...

IBM and Verizon Launch New Private Cloud Service
April 1, 2010 Verizon and IBM have expanded their relationship to deliver Managed Data Vault – a new private cloud service

Polaris Software Acquires IndigoTX
March 29, 2010 Polaris Software Lab acquired IndigoTX, a software as a service company also based in Chennai, India

Pre-Trade Compliance Technology is No Longer an Option
February 18, 2010 Since the financial crisis blew through the securities industry, the impact on IT systems has been dramatic. In one key area,...

Regulations Haven’t Caught Up with the Cloud
February 11, 2010 Regulatory and licensing issues are delaying adoption of cloud computing and online, on-demand computing

Technology - And Preventing Another Crisis
February 4, 2010 The only way to effectively address systemic risk is by providing the regulatory community with direct access to a database...

LTech Announces Availability of CloudMove Migration Tool
January 29, 2010 LTech, provider of enterprise cloud computing products and services, announced the availability of a tool that automates the...

Smaller Hedge Funds Seek "Industrial-Strength Technology"
January 27, 2010 With some form of hedge fund adviser regulation a virtual certainty, the consequences for hedge funds in terms of risk...

Wealth Management Technology Spending to Grow By 5 Percent in 2010
January 12, 2010 Global wealth management technology spending by banks, brokerages and insurance companies is set to reach $3.7 billion by the...

SunGard Releases New Version of Portfolio Manager for Hedge Funds
December 21, 2009 SunGard Data Systems has released a new version of its Visual Portfolio Manager accounting system for hedge funds

SEI Joins with RiskMetrics to Deliver Independent Risk Reports
December 17, 2009 SEI is collaborating with RiskMetrics Group to provide independent risk management and reporting services that will integrate...

Morningstar to Acquire Logical Information Machines, Inc.
December 14, 2009 Morningstar, Inc. entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Logical Information Machines, Inc., a leading provider of...

Compliance Gets a Corner Office
December 1, 2009 At least one corner of the securities industry hiring is booming, and experts are predicting it will stay that way

Autonomy Unveils Cloud-Based Solution for eDiscovery and Compliance
November 11, 2009 Enterprise software provider Autonomy Corp. announced the availability of a next-generation collection solution for eDiscovery...

Deutsche Postbank to Use SunGard Product for Risk Analysis
November 5, 2009 Deutsche Postbank AG, a leading German financial services provider, picked SunGard’s Adaptiv Risk Cube for market risk...

Over the Web and Under the Radar
November 3, 2009 Brokers are saying too much and firms are capturing too little

Eze Castle Introduces Customer Relationship Management Tool on Web
October 21, 2009 Eze Castle Integration launched an application on the Web that provides hedge funds and other investment firms with advanced...

Risk Management Must Incorporate Behavioral Economics: BNY Mellon
September 22, 2009 Recent market events have shown that traditional economics and approaches to risk do not adequately describe real markets and...

RBC Capital Markets: Embracing "The Big I"
September 22, 2009 RBC Capital Markets has implemented SunGard's WealthStation Platform for the 4,000 advisers and financial consultants that use...

Tug of War: Bulls Wrestle Bears on Risk Management Spending
August 31, 2009 Research studies predict a boom in spending on systems to monitor and mitigate risk. But vendors say they aren't seeing it...

Financial Executives Say Managing Risk is Biggest Challenge
August 20, 2009 Senior business leaders in financial services and banking say that the single biggest challenge they face is managing risk

Real-World Risk Management Now a Crucial Focus in Finance, Study Says
August 11, 2009 A hands-on understanding of risk management, rather than a theoretical one, is becoming an essential part of the toolkit for...

Chief Risk Officers Necessary, But Influence May Vary
July 29, 2009 There is broad agreement among financial services firms that a Chief Risk Officeris necessary. But the officer’s role and...

The 70 Percent Solution: Cut Costs Upfront and As You Go, with Cloud Computing
July 9, 2009 If cloud computing needed an imprimatur that its time has arrived in financial services, it may have come in a survey released...

Platform Computing Announces Private Cloud Management Software
June 25, 2009 Platform Computing Inc. announced a new software product for managing private cloud environments

Challenges, Opportunities In Securities Technology
June 16, 2009 The theme of this year's Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's Technology Management Conference is--not...

Technology Offers a Bright Spot as Asian Exchanges Lag
June 1, 2009 Although the financial crisis is posing a host of challenges for Asian stock exchanges, systems and technology remain areas of...