Financial Commentary
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Will Higher Gas Prices Stall the Recovery?
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Swaps Regs Up the Ante on Collateral Management
To cope with new swaps regulations, Kempen Capital Management scrapped its Excel spreadsheets in favor of an iinhouse collateral management system.
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Exchange Suitors Circle LME, But Deal Could Turn on Regulators and Clearing
A bunch of global exchanges, including the likes of CME and NYSE Euronext, are said to be submitting bids to acquire the London Metals Exchange,...
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Accelerate IT Delivery, Or Die
With technology evolving so rapidly, entering into lengthy enterprise IT contracts seems foolish.
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Analytics: The Business Success You Need to Plan For
Understanding how analytics will help insurers reengineer their business processes: once the analytics have been implemented, what next? How can...
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Preparing for Margin Call Mania In Cleared Swaps
The regulatory push toward central clearing of OTC derivatives is going to create higher volumes of margin calls on cleared swaps for buy and sell...
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PAS As a Launchpad for Improved Customer Experience
A modernized policy administration platform provides the necessary launch pad for carriers to offer a variety of highly differentiated customer...
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Should Apple Start a Hedge Fund?
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Struggling Euro PAS Vendors May Boost Buyer's Market in North America
EMEA-based core systems vendors have already wrested market share from their NA-based competitors, and the relative prospertity of the NA market...
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Is EMV the New Metric System?
EMV is the global standard for credit and debit cards -- except in the U.S.
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Why Do Insurance Companies Excel at Developing Women Executives?
Insurance companies and other financial services companies dominate the National Association for Female Executives' 2012 Top 50 Companies for...
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Do Smaller Paychecks for Bankers Mean Occupy Wall Street Won?
A combination of regulation, weaker revenues, and political pressure in various countries has led to lower paychecks on Wall Street.
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Small 'New Market' Change? I Don't Think So.
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Technology Will Eventually Reverse Fragmentation, Says Trading Roundtable
Liquidity centers, cost reduction and commoditization also covered by group that included Citi, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, State Street and UBS.
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Oracle's Hurd Gets Tough Questions from Insurers
At the company's Financial Services and Insurance Forum this morning, insurers pressed the Oracle president for specifics on his commitment to the...
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NYSE/DB: Why Brussels Got It Wrong
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Go West, Young Quant
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Q&A: Accenture's Dave Nuernberg on Why Insurers' Projects Succeed or Fail
During the last decade, insurers have made significant progress in their ability to manage projects effectively. David J. Nuernberg, a senior...
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Can Banks Utilize Data Analysis to Play 'Moneyball'?
It's likely there has been plenty of conflict and fear in the room as financial institutions have tried to come to grips with the implications of...
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Groundhog Day for Insurance Reform: Zero Mention in Geithner's Dodd-Frank Update
Does the delay of the Federal Insurance Office's industry modernization report signify ominous reform measures or the insignificance of the...
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4 Steps to Help Securitizers Comply With Dodd-Frank’s New Reporting Requirements
Ready or not, the Dodd-Frank Section 943 deadline looms for securitizers, which will need to make changes to their organizations and technology in...
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The Facebook IPO: Ready, Set, Recovery
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FIO Misses Modernization Report Deadline
The delay of the insurance modernization report mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act adds to a long list of missed deadlines.
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High-Frequency Trading is Hitting the BRICs
As regulators in the United States and Europe weigh the merits of new regulations to govern high-frequency trading, emerging markets have been...
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Justin Grant
SEC Expands Investigation of ETFs: Report
February 22, 2012 10:58 AM
The wider probe of ETFs comes after a trade in a large, liquid ETF didn't settle within a four-day period and the SEC is examining what role...