financial firms
RSS financial firmsMillfield Partnership Ltd Cuts Its Phone Bill Costs by Over £300,000 With Tiscali Business Services' Solution
White Paper Millfield Partnership Ltd, the principle operating company of the Millfield Group is one of the largest independent, financial advisory firms in the UK. Millfield wanted to implement a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to enable Voice over IP (VoIP... [11 Jul 2008]
See How Financial Services Firms Succeed with Unified Communications
White Paper Focused on Financial Services, the study reveals that with unified communications: SMBs improve responsiveness to customers; employees collaborate effectively; time to resolve problems decreases; approval process time decreases; mobile workers are... [10 Jul 2008]
Performance Management 2.0: Broader or Better? (Part 1 of 2)
White Paper Performance Management 2.0 is being referenced by some IT research firms as an advance over Performance Management 1.0. Does PM 2.0 simply mean it is broader and more inclusive than the PM 1.0 traditional view of being simply a CFO-driven... [09 Jul 2008]
IT Governance, Risk and Compliance: What the Best Performing Firms Do in IT to Deliver Better Business Results and Lower Risk
White Paper These same firms experience lower financial loss and risk, lower rates of customer data loss, nearly 100% uptime in IT, and spend much less on regulatory audit than all other organizations. Combining the governance of IT with a focus on operational... [06 Jul 2008]
Surviving the Paradigm Shift: How Financial Services Firms Can Assure Profitability and Continued Relevance in the New Economy
White Paper Armed with this information, financial service firms can execute an enlightened strategy to survive and prosper in the new economy. This paper explores the volatile market dynamics that have led to decreasing profit margins and increasing customer... [03 Jul 2008]
Doing More With Less - Accelerating Performance in the Financial Industry With Grid Computing
White Paper The need to enhance competitive advantage is driving many financial services firms to search for new ways of getting IT resources to work harder. Grid computing breaks that relationship and actually allows financial services firms to spend less... [03 Jul 2008]
Grid Computing: Accelerating the Search for Revenue and Profit for Financial Markets
White Paper The Grid approach offer financial markets firms the opportunity to start small and grow. Over time, all applications will run natively in Grid environments. Until the widespread availability of native Grid applications, Grid and Web services can be... [03 Jul 2008]
States are Slow to Adopt Cyber-Security Rules, Study Says
White Paper Although the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley banking law requires state banking regulators to develop cyber-security rules for banks, insurance firms and other financial services institutions, few states have done so, according to a report released by... [03 Jul 2008]
The Advice-Enabled Enterprise: A Customer Context Server for the Financial Service Industry
White Paper This ability will enable financial service firms to position their products—and stay agile and profitable in a volatile market. While broadening their offering to the client, firms can simultaneously target their advice to meet and exceed customer... [03 Jul 2008]
The Evolution and Implications of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
White Paper Layered on top of this is often conflicting advice from a myriad of different sources: academics, business process engineering firms, legal professionals and auditing firms. Chief Financial Officers are grappling with "disclosure controls. [03 Jul 2008]
Email-Related Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
White Paper The Sarbanes-Oxley Act directly affects all publicly traded companies, financial services companies, CPAs and CPA firms, as well as attorneys of publicly traded companies. Every accounting firm that audits public companies is required to register... [03 Jul 2008]
Bank invests in low latency monitoring
News He said: "The need to increase speed and reduce latency is a priority for all financial services firms using real-time market data or accessing trade execution venues. Global investment bank Credit Suisse is rolling out a monitoring system for its... [23 Jun 2008]
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Issues
White Paper The law, which applies to all firms that issue securities traded on US securities markets, contains several requirements for firms to comply with. Compliance issues have always plagued financial businesses, but the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA) of 2002... [19 Jun 2008]
Stock Exchange offers low latency feeds
News The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has agreed a deal for connectivity service provider Savvis to provide a proximity hosting service for member firms, hedge funds, market data vendors and the automated trading community. [10 Jun 2008]
Streamlining Operations: How a Financial Services Leader Consolidated Accounting Systems for Over 150 Affiliate Firms With Hosted Lawson Software
White Paper With a blended team of 13 functional and technical consultants, EDL leveraged Lawson's Accounts Payable, Cash Ledger, General Ledger and other modules to craft a customized solution that helped NFP to transfer over 150 financial advisory firms... [05 Jun 2008]
