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By Renee Wijnen Caruthers Manchester Capital Management, LLC is a private wealth management firm targeting clients with investable assets of $10 million or more. The rapidly growing firm, with approximately $1.5 billion under management, and offices in Manchester, VT, and Montecito, CA, recently overhauled its IT infrastructure to achieve scale and flexibility. We spoke with Henry Morneault, senior vice president, and James Bishop, IT director, to ... Full story

Windows in Financial Services speaks with Peter Johnson, senior vice president of Enterprise Architecture and Web Services at The Bank of New York Mellon to get his perspective on balancing the challenges of the current downturn with increasing demands from sophisticated customers. WFS: How do you strike that balance between cost ... Full story

The downturn has led in many cases to increased investments in risk management and the computing power needed to fully understand the risks. Lloyds TSB is no exception. At a Microsoft conference Sept. 22, the company unveiled its "overnight HPC," which it says has already led to a 50 percent performance improvement as well as a 50 percent cut in power consumption. ... Full story

CME Group, formed when the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade merged in 2007, is the world’s largest and most diverse exchange, but with size comes challenges. The company needed a faster, more streamlined way to conduct audits of companies clearing transactions through it, and to share that information among ... Full story

If you don’t know where you are going, even the best technology will have a hard time getting you there. North Shore Credit Union’s Fred Cook understands this well, and the CIO, recognized as a top innovator last year, has made it his business to be clear-sighted about where the business is headed. NSCU’s Web site, for one, will provide its members with a real-time view ... Full story

Eikos Partners is a strategic IT consulting firm whose partners, Michael DeSanti, Brian Slater and David Lattimore-Gay, have held significant roles in large financial firms as well as in the consulting industry. With a focus on the financial industry, and in particular on capital markets, the firm seeks to help firms improve the return on their IT investments and strengthen the link between ... Full story