financial services

EGuide: Financial services, an industry on the vanguard

Posted October 4, 2011 - 2:43 pm

Companies throughout the financial services industry are engaged in massive changes on the technology front -- they're embracing mobile systems, social media, real-time processing and more. The smart ones see the shifts as ripe opportunities for business growth and they're preparing their IT staffs to step into these new arenas, armed with specialized training and career support.
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In fortified data center, NYSE runs 'gated' trading cloud

Posted August 31, 2011 - 5:34 pm

Hurricane Irene mattered not to NYSE Euronext's large data center, which is built on land high enough to avoid 100-year floods and just about everything else.
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10 vital stats about iPad enterprise adoption

Posted April 3, 2011 - 5:32 pm

Getting the straight scoop on iPad enterprise adoption isn't as easy as it seems.
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Financial services firms expand online fraud defense

Posted November 4, 2010 - 8:26 pm

As guardians of wealth, financial-services firms have always been a high-value target for cybercrime, and with online banking and trading, banks find they have to work harder than ever to safeguard their operations.
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SEC looks to ban of 'flash' trading

Posted September 18, 2009 - 8:56 pm

The SEC has formally proposed a ban on the practice of 'flash' trading where large financial companies get access to trading information fractions of a second before it becomes public and use superfast computers to push through buy and sell orders.
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Staff are biggest threat to finance firms' data

Posted October 8, 2008 - 1:13 pm

Insiders represent the greatest threat to the secure data of financial services firms, according to the latest Verizon Business Data Breach report. This marks a strong contrast with companies in other sectors, such as high tech services, food and beverage, and retail, which saw business partners as posing the greatest risk to their data.
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