Whitepapers & Articles
Forrester Report: Hot Banking Tech Companies To Watch In 2009 (127k)
The banking industry continues to suffer from the global recession and backlash from last fall’s financial crisis. While it’s tempting to believe that bank-related technology investment is dead, financial services firms are actively looking for specialized applications and solutions to help address system weaknesses that they could afford to ignore during the boom years. This report describes eight companies that address diverse or merging banking industry needs like fraud prevention, sales skills development, and credit and lending efficiency.
- Tower Group Report: Stress Testing & Scenario Reporting (303k)
This TowerGroup Research Note offers insight into the challenges of deploying stress testing in risk management throughout the global financial services industry. Although stress testing has become a mandate for financial services institutions, differences in government and regulatory approaches will foster inconsistencies that threaten the efficacy of testing outcomes. In addition, challenges to obtaining the right information and being able to conceive of the right scenarios, model them, and take appropriate action make stress testing a less-than-perfect, albeit improved, science in a less-than-perfect world. What is certain, however, is that the results of stress testing will drive the direction of global markets and the industry itself.
- Improving Risk Management: Financial Insights Report (177k)
Financial Insights predicts that liquidity management will become a strategic competency for global financial institutions. This case study profiles an early implementation completed by a tier 1 European financial institution.
- Analyst Reports EDM to DDM: Moore's Law Rewards Centralized Data Procrastinators (0k)
When the Enterprise Data Management Council was formed in 2005, there was great debate between founding member firms and the leading vendor
- Real-Time Risk and Reward: CEP outside the Algorithmic Box (262k)
Complex Event Processing (CEP) has been building momentum in capital markets over the past two years as firms have sought ways to process, correlate and analyze high-speed data and events for organizational intelligence. Though a number of early CEP implementations have occurred in traditional equities algorithmic and strategy trading, the high number of CEP success stories in algorithmic trading left many with the impression that this is the only or primary practical application of CEP in capital markets. In actuality, there are many instances of CEP moving into other areas of capital markets.
