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  Travis Mitchell- Aviat Networks

  Microwave Technology for Low Latency Trading Networks

  Microwave networking can deliver a significant speed advantage over fiber for high frequency trading applications between cities such as Chicago...
  

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  Ravi Koka- Polaris Financial Technology

  What Matters in IT: the Power to Change

  How an emerging architectural approach can turn a ‘commodity’ into a strategic weapon.
  

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  Bryan Yurcan

  Cyber Attacks are a Constant Threat

  A new plot has emerged that could target U.S. banks in early 2013.
  

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  Mazy Dar- CEO- OpenFin

  Things You Should Know About HTML5

  Leading front-end trading applications in FX, fixed income and OTC derivatives have moved quickly to adopt HTML5. But this is no technology fad,...
  

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  Nathan Golia

  How Insurers Can Prevent Post-Catastrophe Blowback

  The insurance industry's reputation is taking a post-Sandy hit as vocal policyholders express their opinions that their claims are undervalued....
  

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  Stuart Rose- SAS

  Distribution Insight – Analyzing Agency Performance and Profitability

  Despite many experts predicting the death of the salesman, the agent/broker channel continues to play a prominent role in the insurance value chain.
  

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  Andrew Waxman

  The Case for Scenario Planning in Sandy’s Wake

  After underestimating the strength of Hurricane Sandy, financial firms need to consider 'risk scenario planning' as a tool for forecasting what...
  

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  Anthony O'Donnell

  Insurance Carriers' Claims Quality Control Conundrum

  Insurers call upon approximately 250,000 vendors nationwide for claim purposes. Those vendors range from nationally known brands to local...
  

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  S. Ramakrishnan- Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications

  The Road to Big Data

  As big data becomes inescapable in today's financial services industry, institutions can prepare by surveying the analytics landscape, targeting a...
  

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  Nathan Golia

  Windows 8: 3 Items for Insurers to Watch

  Windows 8 offers some attractive features that savvy insurers can take advantage of, including telematics, portability and legacy support.
  

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  By Daniel Parker- vice president- SunGard's capital markets business

  The Dodd-Frank Stress Test Rule is Stressing Out U.S. Banks

  Another day, another regulatory rule. And this one seems to be causing stress for risk and compliance managers at U.S. banks.
  

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  Anthony O'Donnell

  Curb-Side Lessons for Self-Service

  Self-service options can sometimes lead to unintended consequences, and so any attempted improvement should be subject to some testing of how the...
  

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  Philippe Torres- InEdge

  How Insurers Can Optimize Legacy Systems to Handle Big Data's BI Challenges

  With the right approach carriers can take advantage of the Big Data trend in their business intelligence and predictive modeling efforts and ride...
  

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  Anthony O'Donnell

  Mercury Insurance Torches Car to Illustrate and Study Fraud

  From personal experience, I've long known that insurance fraud was what might be called a "burning issue" for insurers and society at large, so it...
  

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  Bryan Yurcan

  Is Bitcoin Becoming a Bank?

  A European Bitcoin exchange says it has been granted payments service provider status by French officials.
  

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  Rick McCarthy- Managing Director- Americas- DST Global Solutions

  How FATCA Will Impact Asset Managers

  FATCA becomes effective on January 1, 2014. Sitting back and waiting for further clarification of the requirements is not an option.
  

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  Anthony O'Donnell

  New Auto Insurer MetroMile Competes on Mileage Data

  Today insurance companies are asking themselves how and to what extent they can "do" Big Data. They should notice that MetroMile exec David...
  

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  Anthony O'Donnell

  Nationwide Security Breach Raises Priority of IT Security

  Nearly a million Nationwide customers' personal information was compromised, but the fact that businesses report that cyber risk is their biggest...
  

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  Nathan Golia

  Health Insurance Kiosks Continue Proliferation

  Amerihealth NJ is the latest health insurer to create an experience on an electronic kiosk.
  

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  By David Brown- CEO of Sabrient Systems

  What the Market Wants: Shame of Washington!

  I am politically independent, but I am shocked at the indifference both sides have to giving us some comfort that they will work together to get...
  

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  Anthony O'Donnell

  Eyewitness to Sandy's Ravages in Northern NJ

  All over northern New Jersey downed, uprooted trees — and stacks of chain-sawed logs cleared from roads — remain in mute testimony of Superstorm...
  

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  Julio Gomez

  5 Requirements for Next-Gen Customer Experience Management Platforms

  Managing customer interactions across channels is a challenge for all financial firms. Customer experience management platforms can help...
  

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  John Lee- Merkle

  4 Questions Insurers Should Ask about Data-Driven Marketing

  As we move beyond the classic definition to the challenge of collecting and storing the data, a new problem arises: How do we bring together the...
  

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  Ivy Schmerken

  Insider Trading Investigation Reaches A New Stage

  Speculation intensified that federal prosecutors are looking at SAC Capital Advisers' owner Steven Cohen, but the government doesn't have enough...