Past Web Events

It's All About Speed (To Market) A Wall Street & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast In this Wall Street & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast, hear how leading Wall Street firms are improving software-testing processes to roll out higher-quality products faster and with less risk to the business. December 06, 2007

What Good is Low-Latency Trading If You Have High-Latency Exceptions? A Wall Street & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast In this webcast, moderator Penny Crosman, Senior Editor of Wall Street & Technology, will be joined by John Napoli, analyst and founder of Prime Business Consulting, who will speak about the direction of global automated trading and the impact of rejections or exceptions that affect this process. A Wall Street executive will provide a look at the day-to-day challenges he faces in dealing with exceptions. And Michael Lange, field CTO of Vitria, will discuss the advantages of exception management and the impact it can have on revenue, process and risk, as well as what exactly defines an exception and the process by which exceptions are handled today. November 13, 2007

Strengthening the Advisor-Client Relationship: How Technology is the Key to Unlocking Effective Customer Profitability and Retention Strategies A Wall Street & Technology Vendor Perspectives Webcast There is more pressure on advisors to manage a larger number of customers; this along with regulatory compliance makes communications with clients less frequent and more complicated. Institutions are challenged to identify their high-value customers that represent future revenue growth and profit. Join industry experts Paul Bates and Matt Bienfang (TowerGroup) as they discuss how the retail brokerage industry looks to technology to enhance communication, build stronger relationships between advisor and clients and help the institution communicate its competitive advantage. November 06, 2007

Pervasive Performance Management A Bank Systems & Technology and Wall Street & Technology Vendor Perspectives WebCast Join AMR & Actuate during this live webinar to understand how the world's leading financial services firms became leaders in their industries by deploying pervasive performance management applications. This webinar will also provide unique insight into how these firms are evolving their performance management capabilities in order to stay ahead of their competitors. October 25, 2007 Sponsored by Actuate

Liquidity Crisis: Finding Liquidity In Increasingly Fragmented Markets A Wall Street & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast With liquidity spread across the U.S. markets, finding and rapidly accessing fragmented liquidity is becoming a concern for financial firms. Adding to the complexity is the increased usage of algorithmic and computerized trading which demands low latency trading systems in order to find assets across the fragmented markets in microsecond time frames. With so called dark pools on the rise, coupled with the increasing volume of transactions flowing through regional exchanges, firms are becoming increasingly concerned with liquidity management and managing the soaring message rates. Complex event processing technology and low latency trading products are helping firms overcome these obstacles. In this upcoming Wall Street & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast, hear how financial firms are responding to the liquidity crisis. October 11, 2007

Rich Internet Applications for Online Cash Management A Bank System and Technology, Insurance System and Technology and Wall Street and Technology Vendor Perspective Techwebcast. Join IDC & Actuate during this live webinar to understand how the world's leading financial services firms became and remain leader's in their industries by deploying next generation, self-service applications. This webinar will also provide unique insight into how banks are evolving their online channel cash management reporting capabilities in order to stay ahead of the specific requirements of treasury customers. October 03, 2007

Navigating the Promise and Peril of SOA in FSI If you're part of a Financial Services firm that has a SOA initiative in place, you'll want to attend this webinar! The promise of SOA is to enable your business processes to drive the definition, creation and execution of services that can be shared and reused across your enterprise resulting in increased flexibility and reduced costs. Attend this live webcast and you will receive a copy of HP's Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) for Financial Services whitepaper. June 12, 2007

How to Take Outsourcing to the Next Level A Wall Street & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast In this webcast, Wall Street & Technology Senior Editor Penny Crosman will be joined by Forrester Analyst Stephanie Moore. They will explain what third-generation outsourcing means and how Wall Street firms can take advantage of it. Hear first-hand from a Wall Street IT executive, who will share successes and learning experiences from Outsourcing 3.0. Also presenting will be Ajay Birdavade, Vice President of Production Support Services for Kanbay, A Capgemini Group Company. Please join us for this informative event. May 17, 2007

Enterprise 2.0 101 for Wall Street You've heard of Web 2.0 and maybe the newer “Enterprise 2.0” buzz-phrase. Perhaps you're a little skeptical or weary of the never-ending stream of new “2.0” terminology (we are). But these phrases are not empty, they have real technology tools underlying them, and some Wall Street firms have already begun adopting them and benefiting from their use. For instance, Jefferies & Company, the global investment bank, has developed a wiki-like deal management tool that lets employees access details around deals such as mergers and acquisitions, including includes progress reports, client updates and tools for tracking meeting attendance, and more. Join Wall Street and Technology editor Penny Crossman and leading industry experts as they discuss the application-support and Web- development issues faced by IT management in the financial industry. May 10, 2007

Predictive Performance Management: Leveraging Analytics to Determine What Comes Next Are you achieving the same level of performance as your competitors? Many industry leaders today have coupled new analytic technologies with current performance management systems for enhanced alignment and visibility. Learn how you, too, can maximize performance – not just manage it – by viewing this informative live Webcast. April 26, 2007

Reducing Complex Financial Model Run Times As alternative and exotic investment products become more mainstream and complex, risk managers, traders and portfolio managers are finding it hard to efficiently run financial simulations because of increasing transaction volumes. These firms are looking to hardware technology and infrastructure to provide them with more timely and more comprehensive results. Multi-core processors, distributed computing and grid architectures promise to cut the transactional latency and support the ever increasing transactions per second load. Learn how firms are using advances in application frameworks and the latest -- and fastest -- multi-core and distributed technology to provide financial professionals with the information they need when they need it. April 24, 2007

Drive Your Investment Management Business Forward: Maximizing the Value of Client Data In this Wall Street & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast, Carolyn Stuart, Calamos Investments’ Vice President of IT and Head of Business Analysis shares how Calamos has successfully integrated technologies to directly link advisors to a wealth of systems, information, resources and investment choices that create additional value for their clients. Discover how Calamos Investments is able to support a wide range of clients with different relationship dynamics—from high-net-worth individuals to institutional investors to financial advisors themselves. April 11, 2007

Fixed Income gets serious with algorithmic trading Today’s hyper competitive environment – and continually shifting landscape within the Fixed Income market – means both buy- and sell-side firms need to adapt to the effects of change, and act quickly to outwit their competition. The bond markets might not appear to be as suited to algorithmic trading as equities or FX but there is growing evidence that as automation takes hold of the industry fixed income traders are set to take advantage of these advanced mathematical models. March 22, 2007

Options to Cost-Effectively Meet SEC & NASD Compliance Reporting Requirements and Improve Business Performance SEC & NASD rules for US equity markets place the burden on exchanges, broker-dealers, and related firms to carefully track and analyze data with much greater scrutiny - often in real time. For firms that must comply with Reg NMS guidelines, storing every market tick to prove that trades were executed at best price (for a minimum of seven years) has become a reality. OATS compliance adds even more layers that require fast computing and large data storage. Add to this SEC Rule 17a-4, which regulates the retention of corporate records such as company communications and transactions, means that firms need to look for comprehensive and cost-effective solutions to solve these critical challenges. Hear from Sun Microsystems and its partners as they outline the options available to securely manage, process and retrieve large data sets with a comprehensive platform built on leading storage and identity management systems. March 14, 2007

Risk Dash Board for Capital Markets A Wall Street & Technology Vendor Perspectives Webcast Risk and portfolio dashboard is an interactive rich integrated UI interface that provides for revaluation , portfolio management , portfolio performance measurement and attribution as well as running risk sensitivities all in real time. Join this webcast for an in-depth industry insight by Tower Group expert and learn how HCL has broken the traditional rules of development and has used a hierarchal high performance data base which accommodates this model. HCL will also be discussing how they have developed entire analytics using a vector version of C++ which allows native management of complex vectors and tensors. March 08, 2007

Investment Accounting At the Crossroads? A Wall Street & Technology Editorial Perspectives TechWebCast Though many of the legacy accounting systems have performed admirably over long periods, shifts in investment trends, new financial instruments and changing client expectations are forcing many investment managers to explore replacing these aging systems to meet today’s demands and to plan for the future. In this webcast hear from a panel of industry experts, including executives from Wall Street & Technology, TowerGroup, Northern Trust Global Investments, and Eagle Investment Systems March 06, 2007

Beyond Compliance: Driving Competitive Advantage with Reg NMS With Reg NMS now upon the industry, investment firms are fine-tuning their trading systems, while traders and compliance experts define what exactly "best execution" means. In this Wall Street & Technology Editorial Perspectives TechWebcast, hear from a panel of industry experts and take advantage of the opportunities presented by RegNMS. Understand how to master the intricacies of Reg NMS's best execution, while also managing and minimizing the compliance burden. February 15, 2007

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