Author Archives: Tom Groenfeldt

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About Tom Groenfeldt

I write - mostly about finance and technology, sometimes about art, occasionally about politics and the intersection of politics and economics. My work appears on Forbes.com and and occasionally in The American Banker and Banking Technology in London.

Instant Replay For Traders Helps Them Analyze Algos

Horizon Software has launched an innovative market data recording and replaying module which lets financial institutions  replay an entire day of market data for a broad range of asset classes and instruments, including stocks, futures, options, bonds, indexes and ETFs.  … Continue reading

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Most Merchants Unprepared For Today’s Credit Card Liability Shift

From the survey numbers on how many merchants are ready to accept credit cards with EMV chips in them, you might think this is a new development spring on retailers, instead of an effort that has been in the works … Continue reading

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Branch Banking Is Changing

Tellers using tablet — are they a security concern? How do you defend a network connecting multiple widely dispersed branches, and what is BiModal IT? See the online discussion with CenturyLink Financial Services where Roji Oommen, managing director of financial … Continue reading

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Calypso Signs Global Sales Agreement With SAP

Calypso Technology has signed a global agreement for SAP to resell Calypso cross-asset, front-to-back treasury and capital markets platform as two solution extensions to the SAP application set: the SAP Capital Markets Trading solution by Calypso and the SAP Capital … Continue reading

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Traxpay Wins International Awards For Ecommerce

Traxpay, pioneer in business-to-business (B2B) Dynamic Payments, today announced that its CEO, John Bruggeman, was named “Gamechanger of the Year (Fintech)” by ACQ Magazine. The magazine and its 119,000 readers also named Traxpay’s B2B Dynamic Payments Platform “2015 B2B Payments … Continue reading

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Julius Baer Selects Temenos For Tech Refresh

Julius Baer, the Swiss private banking group, which plans to  to progressively renovate its IT systems, will undertake the project with Temenos. The bank’s  program will begin with core system replacement, using the Temenos T24 platform to be used as … Continue reading

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SAP’s Powerful HANA Analytics Link To Esri

SAP is linking its powerful HANA platform to geospatial services from Esri to enable companies to make better decisions about locations for physical assets, like locating gas pipelines away from residential buildings. “We have built a custom application on SAP … Continue reading

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FCM 360 Signs with Equinix in Tokyo

 FCM360’s Low Latency Financial Cloud hosting service is now available to brokers and traders at Equinix TY3 in Tokyo – one of the largest foreign exchange hubs in Asia. As one of the leading financial systems infrastructure providers in the … Continue reading

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SAP Takes HANA To The Cloud For Business Intelligence

SAP, which Gartner has named a market leader in BI for five years running,  today announced an analytics solutions in SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. New and existing customers can deploy analytics solutions in SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. It provides customers … Continue reading

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Tableau Tops with Gartner

 Tableau Software a global leader in  easy-to-use business analytics software, has been ranked Tableau as the fastest growing business intelligence and software vendor in Gartner’s report, “Market Share Analysis: Business Intelligence and Analytics Software, 2013.”* The report cited Tableau’s 2013 … Continue reading

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