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As data volumes continue to grow exponentially, dashboards remain an incredibly important part of a financial institution's use of data for business efficiency and monitoring. Lately, the demand for dashboards has grown from all sides of the organization. However, with new demand, comes extra complexity in expectations, new needs and extra time requirements for developers. Gone are the days of static reports and dashboards.

Post financial crisis, financial institutions have to focus more intensely than ever on holding down costs and return on investment. It's never been more critical for banks to optimize their business processes and gain efficiencies wherever possible. However, many banking organizations still struggle to gain an enterprise-wide view of customers, channels and risks. This not only hampers IT strategy, it also creates significant obstacles toward achieving regulatory compliance and providing a quality customer experience.

What does your firm own? What are your portfolios worth? How big is your exposure? Answers to these questions are key to managing your firm’s solvency. However when 56% of the North American buy-side lack confidence in their current accounting systems; 30% admit it would take days or weeks to calculate exposure across all holdings; 40% concede investments decisions are made using poor quality data; it’s time to ask if outdated technology is failing the buy-side. Join us for this 60 minute webinar and gain insight on:

On October 2, the SEC is holding a market technology roundtable focusing on best practices to ensure adequate testing and use of software systems. The SEC is hoping to determine out the best way to respond to errors in the marketplace, given the speed with which a single error can snowball into market mayhem. Following a number of incidents this year, including Nasdaq’s botched Facebook IPO, BATS’ failed IPO and Knight Capital’s $400 million software disaster, market structure and software testing has become an even higher priority for market participants.

How labor and document intensive are your organization's back office processes? Banks have embarked on initiatives to automate and streamline these processes. Some operations, however, have inherent complexities that require new approaches. After struggling with custom applications to support its personal and corporate customers, Union Bank found itself buried in paper for multiple processes, backoffice rework, branch bags, and unable to track work being completed. These challenges led to extensive rework, manual tracking, and compliance risks.

High-frequency trading (HFT) has been in the spotlight recently as market participants have debated the value of HFT for investors. While only a certain number of players compete at the ultra-low latency level, many other players are taking advantage of technologies utilizing models and strategies that leverage new data sets as well as more types of information. For instance, many firms are using Big Data technologies, coupled with complex event processing (CEP) and in-memory data analytics engines to uncover new trading opportunities. Big Data, which collects and brings in various newer types of data such as mobile tracking data and web search histories, can help traders and portfolio managers uncover the next trend or up and coming company. But how can market participants take advantage of Big Data without increasing latency or breaking the bank. Join Ivy Schmerken, editor-at-large for Wall Street & Technology, Dushyant Shahrawat, senior analyst at TowerGroup, and SAP/Sybase for an editorial webcast that will focus on the opportunities when it comes using Big Data in a trading strategy.

The mobile market is changing rapidly - driven by increased consumer demands and the continual introduction of new and innovative technologies. In order to keep up with this rapidly changing market space and technology pace, integrated tools are required to help quickly plan, design, build and test mobile applications.

Financial services organizations still have time to implement a successful and sustainable Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) solution given the timing:

The need for the right messaging middleware is more important than ever, as more buy-side firms and broker/dealers seek robust electronic trading strategies with unfailing system reliability and pre-trade analytics to make better trading decisions. But this need comes at a time when technology spending is declining across the capital markets, as firms try to cut costs but still fund strategic new projects. The right messaging middleware can meet all of these challenges.

For software development teams in regulated industries, the ability to demonstrate compliance with a complex and dynamic set of regulations, including internal control of software development processes, is costly and challenging. IBM has given you process definition and enactment with lifecycle traceability through CLM. View this webcast to learn exactly how we take that further to support segregation of duties, work authorization, and audit report generation. We'll show you out of the box functionality as well as extensions, report templates, and tips and tricks. View this webcast if you care about reducing costs and risks of software development compliance.

As databases continue to expand at an exponential rate, financial organizations are challenged to find ways to efficiently analyze the data in a timely manner. With no end in the proliferation of data, how can firms use all of the data in their data warehouses? Just storing the data doesn't provide any value. Analyzing the data for better customer service, new products or to respond to regulatory queries is how firms can get more value from their data. But given all of the business challenges, how can IT organizations respond to the data analytics needs from various business units without adding massive amounts of CPU processing power?

As databases continue to expand at an exponential rate, financial organizations are challenged to find ways to efficiently analyze the data in a timely manner. With no end in the proliferation of data, how can firms use all of the data in their data warehouses? Just storing the data doesn't provide any value. Analyzing the data for better customer service, new products or to respond to regulatory queries is how firms can get more value from their data. But given all of the business challenges, how can IT organizations respond to the data analytics needs from various business units without adding massive amounts of CPU processing power?

Mobile banking has evolved so much and become such a prominent channel in its brief lifespan that it is hard to define it as “emerging” anymore. With various reports indicating anywhere from 15-20 percent of the banking population engaging in mobile, it is becoming an ever-larger segment of the customer base. Yet many banks still haven’t mastered the mobile customer experience.

Financial services firms are reshaping how their finance, risk, compliance and treasury department processes, information and infrastructures are aligned. External mandates have established the requirements, and business pressures have forced reaction. Does your firm understand the impacts of its financial and treasury decisions related to customers, transactions, or asset investments? Are conventional accounting (ledger), financing (capital), and treasury (cash/liquidity) practices yielding the desired outcomes while minimizing your firm's risk exposure? These decisions are determining the course and success of strategies. Be it banking, capital markets or insurance, all financial firms will need to rely on their best information to make the best decision.

It’s no secret that banks and other financial services organizations continue to struggle to provide customers with an integrated banking experience across channels. Now, with more users accessing financial services applications over smart phones and tablets, in addition to traditional methods including in a bank branch, over the phone and, yes, a "traditional" website, firms are challenged to meet customers’ increasing demands for synchronized real-time updates. In addition, customers expect a similar "look and feel" no matter the channel or method of delivery. Although banks are still challenged to match the pace of technological change, newer technologies can make it easier to connect with customers through whatever channel they prefer.

As mobile becomes not only an increasingly dominant channel for bank/customer interactions and transactions, but also an essential tool for employees at all levels to do their jobs more effectively, it's time for banks to step back and take a cold, hard look at their strategies for growing and supporting mobile. Considering that the use of mobile banking services is expected to approach 50 percent by 2016 compared to 15 percent today, according to advisory firm AlixPartners LLP, it might seem that nothing could slow the momentum of banking's embrace of mobile solutions. However, as mobile shifts from a unique differentiator to "table stakes" in which all financial institutions are investing, the risks of misplaced investments or ineffective deployment of resources are potentially much more acute.

Today's tough new regulatory environment is driving firms to boost their risk management procedures and improve their operational efficiency. As such, firms are focusing on reference data management, particularly in light of new regulations, rapidly growing data volumes, and the high cost of manual reconciliation due to bad or incomplete data.

Like many industries, Financial Services organizations (including Banks, Financial Markets and Insurance companies) face many challenges and conflicting priorities including reducing operating costs and risks while driving new sources of revenue, building capital and enhancing customer satisfaction. But often the cost and complexity of rigid infrastructures, silos of systems, and significant investments in legacy applications and resource skills hinder an organization’s ability to effectively tackle the initiatives critical to the business.

Analysts predict the rate of default loans is slowing, and that 2012 may be the year the housing market begins to turn the corner—so what’s the impact on your mortgage and loan operations? Does your bank have a plan to redeploy highly trained staff from default to new loan originations? Can you execute on the plan? Does the plan enable you to adjust to the ebbs and flows of the market?

Barclays, a multinational banking and financial services provider, realized they huge file transfer problem—one that was making their internal teams and partners (not to mention their customers and auditors) very unhappy. Every project the managed file transfer team delivered was custom-built to exacting requirements. Sending data outside the bank was a costly proposition involving hours of red tape and taking up to 12 weeks. The solution was to fundamentally shift the way their organization worked. The goal? To make file transfer as easy as sending a letter (but much more secure.)

There is no topic more controversial in today's marketplace than high-frequency trading. Regulators are still wrestling with how to officially define the practice, let alone police it. And in the two years that have elapsed since the flash crash of 2010, market participants of all stripes remain divided on the issue. Firms with longer-term, low-turnover strategies remain suspicious of high-frequency traders, while others hold the view that if it weren't for HFTs, there'd be no liquidity. Join this Advanced Trading Editorial webcast to hear experts from both sides of the issue debate whether HFT is good or bad for the market, and to hear a proposal on how to fix our market's structure for the better.

Today, tremendous amounts of data flood into financial organizations on a daily basis,so it has become critical that banks and other financial firms have the ability to successfully manage and ensure the quality of all the information they receive so that they can take action through reporting and analytics. But do today's financial institutions have the right tools and data governance processes in place?

As financial institutions search for revenue streams to replace fees lost to regulations, they are discovering that SMB customers offer a tantalizing opportunity. But attracting SMB customers remains a challenge for most financial institutions. If your institution is serious about retaining and winning small business customers, join us for this exclusive webinar that reveals the results of Aite Group's most recent survey on Small Business, conducted February - April 2012.

IBM' Storwize' V7000 is a virtualized storage system designed to consolidate block and file workloads into a single storage system for simplicity of management, reduced cost, highly scalable capacity, performance and high availability. IBM Storwize V7000 also offers improved efficiency and flexibility through built-in solid state drive (SSD) optimization, thin provisioning and non-disruptive migration of data from existing storage. The system can virtualize and reuse existing disk systems offering a greater potential return on investment.