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Waratek Launches JSleep For Java Servers At Gartner Today

Posted on December 22, 2013 by Tom Groenfeldt

Fresh from being named the top global innovator at SWIFT’s Innotribe event in Dubai, Waratek is heading to the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Florida today with a new announcement — JSleep for enterprise Java servers. “JSleep works like closing the lid … Continue reading →

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Banks Left Behind As Payments Go Mobile?

Posted on December 22, 2013 by Tom Groenfeldt

Banks face flat-line growth in online banking unless they can persuade customers to do more on their bank sites rather than going to billers, according to a recent Javelin report. Online banking adoption is flat because it is saturated, said … Continue reading →

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Speed Is Of The Essence In High Frequency Trading — HFN

Posted on December 22, 2013 by Tom Groenfeldt

    Somewhere in northern New Jersey, Hudson Fiber Network has cut nearly one kilometer from its fiber route, giving it the fastest time to deliver trading information from the NYSE, according to its CEO, Keith Muller.    That’s because the NYSE … Continue reading →

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Bank Of The West Goes To Zafin For Relationship Pricing

Posted on December 22, 2013 by Tom Groenfeldt

Bank of the West story Just over a year ago, Bank of the West went on a hunt for customer relationship pricing software. It wanted to reward customer customers according to the number and value of accounts they held at … Continue reading →

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Bank Polski Predicts Mobile Will Become Leading Payment Platform

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Tom Groenfeldt

“Payment cards in their traditional plastic form will disappear sooner or later, much sooner than later,” said Wojciech Bolanowski, managing director at Bank Polski during a presentation at Teradata’s user group conference in Dallas Sunday. He predicted that mobile phone-based … Continue reading →

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Nordea Builds on a Financial Data Warehouse

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Tom Groenfeldt

Nordea — four banks, four countries, now that it has sold off an unprofitable bank in Poland. With 11 million customers, 900 branches and a goal to become a great European bank, Nordea had some challenges ahead. The CEO says … Continue reading →

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Community Banks Face Challenges In Municipal Bonds

Posted on September 9, 2013 by Tom Groenfeldt

Guest Opinion Piece By Michael Ruvo, President, DPC Data Community banks have to take a more active role in selecting and monitoring the municipal bonds in their portfolios under new Dodd-Frank regulations which went into effect in January. In the … Continue reading →

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Temenos Optimized for Oracle

Posted on September 9, 2013 by Tom Groenfeldt

Temenos,  a  provider of banking software for the financial services industry, has  announced that Temenos T24 (JAVA) release 13 has achieved Oracle Exadata Optimized and Oracle Exalogic Optimized status through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN).  The release also supports Oracle Solaris 11 … Continue reading →

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Sibos 2013 – The Arts in Dubai

Posted on August 23, 2013 by Tom Groenfeldt

Dubai has two art districts and they are both worth a look. In the Financial District, get to Gate Village, 10 mid-rise towers connected to the Dubai International Financial Center by wooden walkways. It can be pretty quiet on a … Continue reading →

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Extraterritoriality – It’s What The Other Guy Does

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Tom Groenfeldt

“Here be dragons: Will EMIR’s extraterritoriality rules deter third country firms?” That’s the title in RegTechFS which watches the evolving regulation so you don’t have to http://regtechfs.com/here-be-dragons-will-emirs-extraterritoriality-rules-deter-third-country-firms/ The folks at RegTechFS say that the EU wants to exert control on … Continue reading →

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