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TS-Associates, Solace Integrate Messaging Technology

Ottawa-based middleware provider Solace Systems and TS-Associates, a provider of middleware monitoring solutions, are integrating their appliances at the request of several of Solace's customers in the financial services sector

SEC, Labor May Issue Consumer Alert on Target-Date Funds

The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Labor are expected to soon issue a joint consumer alert on how pension plan participants should use target-date funds for their retirement, said two executives in the target-date funds market.

CFA Institute Offers “Strong Support” for Key Items in Senate Bill

The CFA Institute, the association that administers the CFA exam program worldwide, said today that it supports critical areas of the new Senate Banking Committee bill on financial regulatory reform.

Technology 'Bar' May Lead to Consolidation of Hedge Funds

The technology ‘investment bar’ required to meet investor and regulatory requirements from financial system reforms may be high enough to lead to consolidation of hedge funds, according to a synopsis of discussions held at Global Hedge Fund Forums in New York and London.

Nasdaq OMX Appoints Mellon Vet VP of Transaction Services

The Nasdaq OMX Group has appointed Mary McDermott-Holland as vice president of Nasdaq OMX Transaction Services, effective April 6.

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The Will and Way to Surveill

Whether government regulators or market centers or other self-regulatory organizations should conduct trading surveillance of our markets may not be the ultimate question.

Comment

The Demands of Electronic Delivery

The right way to spur electronic delivery of annual reports and other documents to shareholders is ... to create better, slimmer print documents, prove their value to readers and then let them opt to get the "excruciating detail" online.

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Risk Analysis: Technology Outstrips Firms' Abilities to Use It

Technology has advanced risk analytics far beyond financial services firms' abilities to use it.

Viewpoints

Q&A: Microsoft Pivots to Deliver More Data, Faster

Joe Pagano insists that he is looking forward to work in the months ahead as "Microsoft has never released more value in its platforms for financial service firms than it has with the current wave."

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OPS REPORT
Chris Kentouris

Money Market Funds Must Now Play Tag

Operations staff soon will be faced with the task of quickly reporting more information about the holdings in their money market funds. And they will have to do so using the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) tagging format.

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Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

“Superspend” on Data Centers “Dysfunctional”

Can it be? Trading firms and marketplace operators are wasting money on the big “monolithic” data centers they’re building, as electronic networks proliferate, market data explodes and volumes surge?

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