Posts Tagged ‘Capital Markets’

EDGAR Online Perfects XBRL Data Management EDGAR Online is the only company that has created a historical XBRL data set - including 10 years of history of every U.S. public company at more depth (6,000 data elements) than anyone in the world. "What is unique about it is that most vendors can only produce a couple hundred ... Full story

Lab49 Adds Speed, Visuals and a Unified View to the Risk Picture Early in 2009, a major investment bank looking for a better way to chart and analyze ever-changing risk metrics turned to Lab49, a New York- and London-based solutions provider for the financial services industry. "Existing software lacked the ability to provide sophisticated visualizations, such as ... Full story

Eikos Partners Adds Configurability and Speed Eikos Partners has built a client zero install equity trading system with tick by tick position, P&L and sophisticated stock charting that allows users to annotate charts with news and even online chat sessions. The charts update in real-time, and the news and annotations made by users appear on the ... Full story

  Mark Abbott discussed how Raymond James is focusing on providing better customer facing services for its financial advisors and at the same time providing operational efficiencies and costs savings. Microsoft is a key partner in this strategic effort through their implementation of CRM/SharePoint/BI. Participants in the Wealth Management CEO Breakfast Roundtable: Natalia Tchetchoulina, Vice President, Barclays Bank Dennis Layden, Pershing Joe Giglia, Market Executive, Wells Fargo / Wachovia Frank Minerva, ... Full story

Sector Treasury Services, a subsidiary of Capita Group that serves as treasury management and capital financing advisor to UK local authorities, has tapped SunGard Transaction Network's (STN) Money Markets portal to help its local government treasury clients meet short-term investment requirements. STN Money Market Portal will be used to give clients research capabilities and historical data as well as underlying holdings of funds, yield comparisons and ... Full story

A total of four winners were selected for clearly implementing technologies that will redefine a new tomorrow in technology and demonstrate a clear-cut advantage they have in their particular sector of the marketplace. Criteria for judging and selecting were based on the end result enabling a concrete resolution to an impending issue, solving practical business problems. Full story

Integrated Platform CREDIT SUISSE U.S. In order to support the growth of Credit Suisse Alternative Investments businesses and manage risk across these businesses, the legacy of independent platforms that had been designed for specific businesses did not provide the required agility to the business as a whole. At the same time, to comprehensively manage risk while growing ... Full story

Silverlight Framework and Web 2.0 Wealth Management MERRILL LYNCH Silverlight. With its Silverlight Framework, Merrill Lynch set out to accomplish rich data visualization that was also highly reusable. The primary power of Silverlight is a programming model that enables Rich Internet Applications (RIA) using a ... Full story

Oakvale Capital Limited, Australia's largest independent financial risk management firm, has expanded its use of AvantGard, from Microsoft Gold Certified Partner SunGard, by adding new investment management functionality to its existing treasury operations. The expanded solution will help Oakvale give customers improved tools for handling their treasury risk exposures. Oakvale has provided its customers with an online treasury management system, Acorn, since 2000. Acorn provides functionality ... Full story

Ziegler Wealth Management, a Chicago-based regional broker dealer, has rolled out Protegent Surveillance from Microsoft Gold Certified Partner SunGard for its flexibility in accommodating the firm's unique structure and its ability to provide company-wide compliance, surveillance, and regulatory processing. The solution was rolled out to approximately 100 financial advisors, regional sales supervisors and branch managers in an application service provider (ASP) environment within an eight-week ... Full story