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Yahoo! investor demands Microsoft talks reopen

News Paulson & Co, a $30bn hedge fund that raked in billions of dollars betting on the credit meltdown, disclosed Thursday it had amassed a 3.4 per cent Yahoo! Financier Carl Icahn launched a proxy battle on Thursday to force Yahoo!

Tags: board, microsoft, yahoo

[16 May 2008]

Swiss Financial Services Group: Hedging Its Bets Against Data Loss

whitepaper Swiss Financial Services Group is a hedge fund administrator providing accounting and administration services for hedge funds. The company has offices in Naperville, Illinois; Waterford, Ireland; Nassau, Bahamas; and Zurich, Switzerland.

Tags: back-up, financial services, disaster, hedge

[10 Apr 2008]

XOsoft's WANSync Business Continuity Platform Helps Richard Fleischman & Associates Inc. Keep Systems Availability High During East Coast Blackout

whitepaper RFA) is a provider of network solutions that support New York-area portfolio managers and promote successful hedge fund management. Richard Fleischman & Associates Inc. RFA builds all of its networks with the highest availability possible, based on...

Tags: disaster recovery, exchange, file, wansync

[10 Apr 2008]

Banks lay off IT staff as big tech projects get the chop

News The report states: "We are seeing asset management and the hedge fund space continuing to be active in hiring senior IT staff, with an emerging trend for high quality change/PMO types to drive major change initiatives across these businesses.

Tags: recruitment, financial services, jobs, cio

[22 Feb 2008]

Hedge fund manager in £3.5m IT deal with Savvis

News The financial services company specialises in hedge funds and manages over $9bn in assets. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. A is for Antivirus B is for Botnets C is for CMA

Tags: financial services, disaster recovery, hosting, business continuity

[06 Dec 2007]

DreamWorks Animation: Over the Hedge - Pushing the Boundaries of Technology

whitepaper This webcast shows how a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) not only helped in the creation of cutting-edge animated filmmaking, but also improved flexibility while maximizing the IT infrastructure.

Tags: infrastructure management, service oriented architecture, edge, creation

[02 Nov 2007]

Tech pros up in arms over tax change

News Robert Peston, a blogger at the BBC, wrote last week: "This is the equivalent of the Treasury saying: 'let's turn the UK into a hedge-fund paradise, where the biggest rewards go to those who search out the easiest short-term profits'.

Tags: tax, chancellor, start-up

[15 Oct 2007]

London Stock Exchange: Data-X Foundation Service

whitepaper As part of this change, the Exchange teamed with Accenture to quickly and successfully launch several new services that leverage one of its core competencies - providing real-time and historical information about stock price and movements to such...

Tags: infrastructure management, stock, criteria, accenture

[23 Jul 2007]

Banks waging global tech talent war

News Some of the key financial-services CIO-level appointments highlighted from the last quarter include Fida Chishti moving to emerging-market hedge fund Spinnaker Capital as CTO from UBS Alternative & Quantitative Investments and Joe Gordon joining...

Tags: hiedrick & struggles

[20 Jul 2007]

Financial services IT spending spree this year?

News According to researchers Datamonitor, IT budgets have increased by an average of 11 per cent in the trading/brokerage, fund management, investments and securities, and hedge funds sectors during 2007.

[02 Apr 2007]

Major Financial Services Company Integrates Financial Systems to Meet Users' Needs

whitepaper A major financial services company is a global leader in hedge fund management services, performing a complete range of accounting, administration, shareholder and corporate services to hedge funds and collective investment schemes.

Tags: xml, financial services, websphere, fund

[16 Mar 2007]

Major Financial Services Company Integrates Financial Systems to Meet Users' Needs

whitepaper A major financial services company is a global leader in hedge fund management services, performing a complete range of accounting, administration, shareholder and corporate services to hedge funds and collective investment schemes.

Tags: xml, financial services, websphere, fund

[16 Mar 2007]

UK outsourcing gets banking boost

News Investment banks are starting to offer outsourced services to specialist financial services companies such as hedge funds. In May 2006, for example, JP Morgan signed a $2bn contract to run hedge fund operations and administration for London company...

Tags: investment bank, growth, outsourcing, pac

[26 Feb 2007]

Contractors banking on City payday

News The continuing boom in mergers and acquisitions along with increased transaction volumes are leading to higher demand for IT contractors within investment banks and hedge funds, said Matthew Brown, managing director of contractor services company...

Tags: mifid

[03 Jan 2007]

iTunes sales row data over-hyped

News Since publication of the report, Apple's stock dropped three per cent and one of the analysts behind the report, Josh Bernoff, has received calls from worried hedge fund managers, according to his blog.

Tags: forrester, ipod, itunes, apple

[14 Dec 2006]

Google lets staff auction stock options

News To hedge their bets, financial institutions may 'short' the stock, usually a complicated, three-way transaction where the short-seller makes money when a company's stock price goes down. Google plans to start an unorthodox stock options programme...

Tags: auction, google, stock options

[13 Dec 2006]

isoutsource.com Implements Tahoma Capital#$#s Network Infrastructure on Schedule - Despite Construction Delays and Other Obstacles

whitepaper Startup hedge fund Tahoma Capital incorporated in October 2005, with a goal of opening its new offices February 1, 2006. That gave the firm less than four months to locate and build out office space and get its IT infrastructure operational.

Tags: outsourcing, capital, construction, offices

[28 Sep 2006]

Hedge funds to spend $3.3bn on tech

News Hedge funds are ramping up their use of technology to cope with increased financial regulations and lower profit margins. As a result, global hedge fund investment in IT is set to reach $3.3bn by 2009, according to a study by analyst Datamonitor.

Tags: datamonitor

[31 Aug 2006]

Gravitas Technology Case Study: Leading Equity Long/Short Hedge Fund

whitepaper The client is a U.S.equity long/short hedge fund. The challenge was to design, implement, and support disaster recovery solutions for their email and high-volume trade order management system. Gravitas Technology designed and implemented a complete...

Tags: disaster recovery, email, disaster, disaster recovery

[10 Aug 2006]

IT contractors flock to booming City firms

News Financial services is now the fastest growing sector for the use of IT contractors in the UK on the back of booming profits and regulatory compliance initiatives that are driving a new wave of IT investment by investment banks and hedge funds.

Tags: giant group, it contractors

[07 Jun 2006]

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