Financial Commentary
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Facebook & Grexit Fallout: What's Next?
An overblown IPO and a blown out European economy are bringing nothing but bad news to the US as we struggle to emerge out of a nearly four...
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Next-Gen Mobile Strategies Become Table Stakes Quickly
It only takes a short time for insurers and vendors to ramp up mobile capabilities to match competition.
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The iPhone5 Is Almost Here, And It’s Going To Be Big
A multitude of rumors about Apple's latest smartphone have been swirling around the web. Here is a low down of what it is expected to look like.
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Clearing as a Catalyst: FX Forwards, NDFs and FX Swaps Join the Modern Age
The more-robust capturing, reporting and clearing of FX forwards, NDFs and swaps should be counted as one of the more positive aspects created by...
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Could HFT Hedge Funds Spark a New Flash Crash?
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Streamlining the Program Execution Path Is the Shortest Distance to Faster Trades
While capital markets firms obsess over their proximity to exchange matching engines in order to reduce latency, reducing the program execution...
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HP Layoffs Signal Punishing Fall
Unless HP can turn enterprise software, cloud services, or some other line into a high-volume, high-margin business, it's in for a world of hurt.
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How To Build The Right IT Skills
Every IT pro, no matter how senior, must always be in learning mode, but especially in a lackluster economy.
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Even Facebook Can't Get Investors to 'Like' the Markets
The historic debut of the social networking giant on the Nasdaq was unable to help investors forget what ails the global markets.
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How Allstate Shed Stodgy Reputation in Favor of Innovation
Changing the culture of the insurer was a challenge worth taking on, executives said — and social media helped.
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Wall Street's Top 3 Operational Concerns: Regulation, Cost Pressure, IT Talent
Roundtable of Wall Street c-level executives say that increasing cost pressures, a heavy regulatory burden and managing IT talent are three areas...
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ACORD LOMA Notes: Hyland Emphasizes Strategic Partnership, Mobile
Hyland's Ed McQuiston sees opportunities for success in the background of core system modernization efforts, discusses customer appetite for...
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How Banks Can Create A Customer-Centric Channel Experience
Making the customer the center in a post-channel world.
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Secure Your Docs, But the User Should Always Come First
Users have no patience for clunky document management systems, so it was refreshing to discover that Rosenblatt Securities and Blackstone Group...
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5 Ways IT Leaders Can Get More Staff Feedback
Criticism is hard to take, but it can be even harder for employees to offer. Here's how to encourage your IT staff to open up and build a stronger...
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How to Implement High-Performance Underwriting With Lower IT Investment Risk
Four functional imperatives underlie desktop underwriting solutions that consolidate multiple sources for risk evaluation, liberating underwriters...
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Morgan Stanley Annual Meeting Disrupted by OWS Offshoot
The "99% Spring" managed to drown out Morgan Stanley's shareholder vote count, but without a strategy aimed at steering elections, they won't...
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ID Federation Draws Closer to Solving Password Problem
Insurers and vendors join forces in nonprofit to identify login standards for independent agents.
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Financial Firms Can't Ignore iPad and Android Tablet Apps
Brokerage firms are developing apps for the iPad and other Android-alternative tablets, but they should take advantage of the larger screen...
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What If Goldman Sachs Lost a $2 Billion Bet?
Wall Street golden boy Jamie Dimon is in a PR nightmare - usually the realm of Goldman Sachs. What would the reaction be if the CEO in the penalty...
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Celent Analyst Shares 4 Key Insurance Technology Insights for the Future
Juan Mazzini, Celent's new senior analyst, shares some of the research and advisory firm's high-level insights into the changing terms of...
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Claims Recovery Optimization: Turning a Cost Center into a Money Generator
Insurance companies are turning to analytics to improve their loss ratio by optimizing the claims recovery process through data mining and text...
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Santam Says Saved Big on Fraud With IBM Partnership
The South African insurer reports $2.4 million in savings on fraudulent claims in the first four months of using IBM analytics.
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Dimon's $2 Billion Bet Proves the Volcker Rule
As Wall Street firms were making a case against Dodd-Frank and The Volcker Rule, JP Morgan loses big on a prop trading bet that blew up in their face.
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