Portland, Oregon-based Smarsh, which characterizes itself as a provider of archiving and compliance solutions for companies in regulated and litigious industries, has unveiled its eighth annual Electronic Communications Compliance Survey report. The 40-question survey of 191 financial services professionals with direct compliance responsibilities found that “organizations are not keeping pace with their retention and supervision… Read More >>
Liquid Releases Mobile Portfolio Analysis App
Cloud-based solutions vendor Liquid Holdings has introduced LiquidMobile, a web-based app that allows hedge funds to manage their portfolio and conduct risk analysis and reporting across multiple funds on a mobile device in real time, officials say. LiquidMobile runs on both desktop and mobile devices, and allows fund managers to interact with historical, real-time, and… Read More >>
Condé Nast Data Security Director Joins Abacus
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted IT solutions for hedge funds and private equity funds, has named Brian Lozada to be its director of information security. Lozada, who joins from Condé Nast where he held the same title, will report to Viktor Tadijanovic, Abacus Group’s chief technology officer (CTO). At Condé Nast, Lozada was responsible… Read More >>
Q&A: Will Mobility Ever Come to Middle- and Back-Office Operations?
(Editor’s note: Gary Wright, CEO of B.I.S.S. Research in London, says that trading firms need to change their attitudes toward remote access for mobility to really take off. Until then, he says the industry is in a climate of fear and concern.) How disruptive, in a good sense, has the integration of mobile systems (laptops,… Read More >>
A New IT Backbone for J.P. Morgan’s WSS, Part One
Clients of J.P. Morgan’s Worldwide Securities Services (WSS) may never know how they are benefiting from an overhaul of the IT infrastructure that supports the offerings they use. They may not be aware of the new hardware, new software or the enterprise-wide access to data. The signs that things have changed will come through faster… Read More >>
Fiserv Goes Mobile
Mobile computing has topped Fiserv’s agenda and in 2012 will impact its offerings while cloud computing and data aggregation are on the horizon for the vendor, says Cheryl Nash, president of the Fiserv Investment Services division. In fact, mobile technologies are a high priority for customers, Nash says. To meet that demand, Fiserv acquired Mobile… Read More >>
