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By David Flower, VP EMEA, Compuware Gomez The American Bankers Association conducted research last summer to establish how people in the US like to do their banking. It discovered that 62 per cent of US adults see online banking as their preferred banking method, compared to 36 per cent in 2010.The findings emphasise the growing importance... read more

By Marc Alvarez, senior director for reference data infrastructure, Interactive Data It’s a phrase that’s been hard to avoid over the last year: ‘big data’. But what exactly does it mean? Big data describes a phenomenon that is becoming increasingly difficult for firms across a wide range of industries to manage. In... read more

By Fabian Samaniego, a senior consultant to TCS Financial Solutions and ex-COO of HSBC Brokerage and managing director of global operations at ICM Capital Markets (additional contributors: Danny Garcia and Gary Schwartzberg) The current post-crash landscape in the financial services industry is driving broker-dealers to evolve at a much... read more

This technical paper details the optimal analytics platform architecture needed to support today’s derivatives markets. Historically trade details and modelling techniques were often combined however today’s increasingly sophisticated analytics demand a different approach. By separating what is being valued from how it is being valued, a... read more

The inaugural Mobey Day, organised by the bank-led Mobey Forum industry association, which also includes handset manufacturers, vendors and others, was held at CosmoCaixa in Barcelona on 21 March where more than 250 senior level technologists and industry players attempted to map out the future of mobile financial services. Ron van Wezel,... read more

The majority of banking will eventually be done on the mobile channel, believes David Urbano director of mobile and social media, at La Caixa bank in Spain, and the shift is already underway he told Neil Ainger at the recent Mobey Day event in Barcelona on 21 March at CosmoCaxia. The day when we see the majority of banking being done on the... read more

There are two technological requirements for global and regional banks and other financial institutions − the need to centralize and consolidate their applications and the need to reduce total operational costs. Polaris' FT Grid offers the ideal solution to meet both these requirements. However, this solution does raise the usual share of... read more

This white paper is an examination of how the cloud is creating a major shift in business technology - away from legacy technologies to cloud based services - and how financial service companies can transform their businesses growth by embracing new web based tools that maximize operational capacity. “Employing cloud resources can save IT up to... read more

The company is using PolarLake to improve the efficiency and accuracy with which trading systems are updated with credit default swap affirmations originating from inter-dealer brokers, such as ICAP, Creditex and GFI. By doing so the bank is improving both trading performance and competitiveness levels. read more

The Dodd Frank rule will have a significant effect on the European swaps and derivatives market, alongside other regulation that will cause many businesses to alter their operations. Originally signed into law in the US in July 2010, the act was conceived as a means of tackling the recession that spread across the globe in previous years, helping... read more