09/13/2012
“la Caixa” strengthens Private Banking
"la Caixa" is set to drive growth in Private Banking and Personal Banking by introducing a new model for interacting with customers and by pioneering innovation in the banking industry.
FinTech
09/11/2012
UK asset manager moves to SimCorp Dimension
“A key criterion was to have a system that would be future-proof and reduce our overall costs of ownership. SimCorp Dimension was the best fit for this,” says Hughes.
09/11/2012
Delta Lloyd Bank chooses Wolters Kluwer's ALM, liquidity risk services
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services has announced that Delta Lloyd Bank is expanding the use of its offerings, having selected its ALM and Liquidity Risk Management solutions for the bank’s Belgian and Dutch divisions.
09/11/2012
1 in 5 IT Staff Have Accessed Executives’ Confidential Data
IT professionals are allowed to roam around corporate networks unchecked, according to a survey of more than 450 IT professionals released by Lieberman Software Corporation.
09/10/2012
Advent Augments Syncova with Collateral Management for IRS
Advent has announced it will launch a new interest rate swaps (IRS) package for its Syncova platform.
09/10/2012
Esma issues online investor warning
The European Securities & Markets Authority (Esma) has published a Europe-wide investor warning about investing online.
09/09/2012
Irish Wealth Manager Implements SunGard's Protegent
"It is vital to display corporate responsibility and identify potential market abuse. SunGard's Protegent solution provides the flexibility and functionality that we need to help manage the increasing regulatory requirements to perform timely an
09/09/2012
FSA to switch software as it ramps fight against market abuse
Its use of the technology will come into effect next year, according to the Financial Times, which has seen copies of requests for information sent to suppliers of the software.
09/05/2012
Wealth-X Launches Salesforce App Enabling CRM Access to Over 90,000 Global UHNW Individuals
The powerful capabilities of this new application for Salesforce users includes the ability to mine existing customers to identify the highest potential prospects, to access thousands of new qualified UHNW leads and to identify the social networks of the
09/05/2012
Banks should outsource to avoid IT issues
Following the call this week from the FSA to challenge executives of the high street banks to show what actions they are taking to protect themselves from future IT outages, such as the RBS computer glitch earlier this year, the argument for outsourcing I
09/05/2012
Deutsche Borse new network operator for CEESEG
Deutsche Börse AG and CEE Stock Exchange Group (CEESEG) have announced the conclusion of a major IT agreement.
09/04/2012
Axioma signs BlueCrest Capital Management
Axioma, a leading provider of decision support, risk analysis, portfolio rebalancing and performance attribution tools, today announced that BlueCrest Capital Management LLP, a leading alternative asset manager with more than $32 billion in assets under m
09/04/2012
FSA 'asks banks for IT contingency plans'
The Financial Services Authority wants the main high street banks to detail their efforts to prevent a software glitch like the one that hit Royal Bank of Scotland in June, the Financial Times claimed.
09/04/2012
Ex-ABN AMRO CEO Slams Financial Institutions for Losing Touch With Customers
“It has been clear for some time that many banks and other financial institutions have done little but think of themselves, they have lost touch with their customers and they are no longer trusted. At the same time the drive toward ever more stringe
09/04/2012
Ashmore Investment Management goes live with Calastone
Joining the network is simple and does not require additional costly technology. Single point of entry to the market via Calastone is seamless and industry developments, such as the movement away from ISO 15022 messaging to the ISO 20022 standard, are eas
09/03/2012
Bravura Solutions sees more efficient online world for financial firms
Improvements in the internet experience will depend on shifting away from proprietary systems to standards based ones that ensure access to latest technologies.
09/03/2012
FSA challenges bank chairmen over IT
The letter to the nine largest banks and building societies from two senior Financial Services Authority executives also demands the names of senior managers who could be held personally responsible if information technology systems go awry.
09/03/2012
Banks’ regulatory spend spurs Rule Financial’s growth
Despite many economists doubting banks’ IT spend this year (e.g. Celent predicted growth of just 2.8% in 2012), Rule Financial is continuing to expand globally. Rule Financial has found that regulatory pressure is a key driver for projects that it i
09/03/2012
SS&C Launches CAMRA I-Risk
SS&C Technologies today launched CAMRA I-Risk for Insurance companies to address emerging Solvency standards by combining CAMRA’s sophisticated financial reporting capabilities with a state-of-the-art position-based stochastic simulation model.
09/03/2012
Standard Life launches on-line traing portal for institutional investors and advisers
Standard Life Investments today announced the launch of a portal of wide-ranging education tutorials to help institutional investors and advisers meet their professional development and training needs.