In an active investment banking division at a large financial institution, the Chief Compliance Officer's duties have increased immensely due to new compliance regulations regarding email supervision including SEC 17a-4, NASD 3010, etc. To complicate things further, SEB is required to meet US and EU compliance regulations. As the CCO...
As the financial crisis deepens, science and math graduates of top colleges and universities who once flocked to investment banking are now looking to jobs in engineering and technology. Sexy science? Indeed. The article, which appears in BusinessWeek, details how the fall of the...
Governance risk and compliance are not the most popular of topics. Until there is a monumental screw up that is. Then everyone with a GRC solution emails to remind me they have the solution that could have avoided last week's mayhem in the financial markets,which will fix the ongoing situation...
Founded in 1989, MasterLink Securities Corporation offers brokerage, wealth management, and investment banking services. Headquartered in Taipei, the company has offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. It intends to broaden its online brokerage service to provide customers with the convenience of 24-hour financial support. It needed to install a...
Based in Toronto, Canada, BMO Capital Markets is the North American corporate and investment banking division of BMO Financial Group. With 400 servers distributed worldwide, BMO Capital Markets wanted to create a dynamic IT infrastructure that could easily scale to meet increasing demands for performance and international expansion. The company...
Yahoo has named Blake Jorgensen chief financial officer. The move comes as Susan Decker moves over to run Yahoos advertiser and publisher group. Deckers move was announced late last year. She has taken a more prominent role on earnings conference...
Goldsmith-Agio-Helms, a global private investment banking firm with offices in Minneapolis, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and London. The company wanted to provide the highest level of customer service while being mobile the majority of the time. A Nortel unified communications solution with high-value IP calling features, unified messaging, PC...
As a global investment banking company, RSM EquiCo Capital Markets must follow many regulatory requirements for the monitoring, retention, and retrieval of e-mail messages. Although it had a rudimentary archiving solution in place, the company was unsure it could meet all legal requirements. When the firm learned it was to...
Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Montgomery & Co. is a privately held investment banking firm serving growth companies in technology, life sciences, and media vertical markets. Years ago, the company implemented an open-source archiving and filtering solution to safeguard its existing Microsoft Exchange Server enterprise messaging system. By late 2004,...
Actively meeting client needs is paramount to success in the financial services industry. When its client wanted a straight-through, automated digital certificate management process, Citigroup sought a global technology solution to serve as the intermediary between the client and various certificate authorities, each of which requires a different infrastructure to...
QIF Master makes it easier to enter banking, credit card, and investment transactions into Quicken or other programs that accept Quicken Interchange Format QIF. Bank and Credit Card Transactions: Many online banks and credit card companies allow you to download recent transactions (checks, deposits, credit card charges, etc.) into a...
SEE Finance is a new personal finance manager for Mac OS X. Whereas many personal financial managers compromise function for form, this software offers comprehensive financial management with an elegant user interface. SEE Finance allows you to track and monitor all your income and expenses quickly and easily. With SEE...
Navigating the ever-changing/dynamic financial services industry successfully for most institutions translates into growing revenue while simultaneously controlling costs. From revisiting business models to evaluating how best they can improve analytics and risk management strategies, banks today are metamorphosing into institutions encompassing a variety of businesses such as insurance, securities, investment...
Some Quicken thoughts...I have used Quicken for many years and yes, it can be a little buggy and cryptic at times. Overall, It's a real time saver and VERY convenient. BUTT...Things to think about: Usually never considered until that fateful day comes.My entire financial life, banking accounts (4) investment accounts...
I would disagree Sam...You are missing the point of Mint then. This is a financial aggregator - nothing more, nothing less - to get a birds-eye view of your financial status. These features you want, would be better served by using the Quicken Online product for a nominal fee or...
When it comes to personal finance software on the Web, I like Mint - even though I was a bit concerned that the site would change after Intuit announced the acquisition last month. But the message seems to be coming through loud and clear: Intuit has no plans to mess...
I hope notI want Steve Jobs controlling all my consumer electronics gear EVEN LESS than I want Bill Gates controlling all my computers!Sure, I'd like much more creativity and interconnectedness in the CE world, but not that the cost to be exacted by ol' Steve.No to SonosApple already has products...
Compatibility with Pocket Quicken has been improved.In some cases Quicken online banking transmissions failed with an OL-293 error. This issue has been resolved. The QuickEntry Dashboard widget now maintains account settings after rebooting your computer. When downloading investment transactions Quicken now also considers hidden securities. Any previously hidden securities with...
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft founds, funds a new open-source foundation Is Microsoft stalling on its GPL Linux drivers? ...
In the past, keeping track of your life online meant logging in to each of your accounts separately. Is your flight running on time? How many minutes are remaining on your monthly cell phone plan? How much money do you have left in your checking account? Now thanks to Pageonce...
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