GLOBAL, Financial Technology

Temasek acquires 10% stake in Markit

Temasek, Singapore's state-owned investment company, has acquired a 10% stake in financial data firm Markit for $500 million. Read More | View Original Article

Young exits Bloomberg after less than a year

Stanley Young has departed Bloomberg less than a year after jumping ship as CEO of Nyse Technologies to become chief executive of the market data ... Read More | View Original Article

Buy side spending on execution and order management systems rising year-on-year

Institutional investors spend between $1.5 billion and $2 billion per year on order management and execution management systems for their trading ... Read More | View Original Article

Earthport opens new payment route into Morocco

Earthport, the cross-border payments service provider, today announced the roll out of a fully automated payment service into Morocco. Read More | View Original Article

JPMorgan Chase demands access to Bloomberg logs

JPMorgan Chase lawyers have demanded that Bloomberg hand over five years of internal staff logs, in another sign of disquiet among financial firms ... Read More | View Original Article

AMF issues RFI for central securities data repository

The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), the regulatory and oversight body for Québec's financial sector, has issued a Request for Information ... Read More | View Original Article

ReD and EMS partner up on e-commerce

ReD, a leading global fraud prevention provider, and Netherlands-based payments processing specialist EMS, have today announced a strategic ... Read More | View Original Article

Deutsche Bank buys Xchanging out of JV

London-based back office processing provider Xchanging has agreed to sell its 51% stake in Xchanging Transaction Bank (XTB) back to partner Deutsche ... Read More | View Original Article

IPC launches app development partner programme

IPC Systems has unveiled a vendor and customer app development partner programme for its Unigy trading communications platform. Read More | View Original Article

What is the GETC?

Peter Webb, business development and alliances at SmartStream and Paul Taylor, director, post-trade services at Swift discuss the Global Electronic ... Read More | View Original Article

Wall Street propeller-heads make way for new generation of data scientists

Rocket scientists on Wall Street are set to be usurped by a new generation of 'data scientists', as investment banks combine new analytical ... Read More | View Original Article

Two-thirds of Canadians say they are likely to be investing online in next five years

The future looks bright for online investing, according to a BMO InvestorLine study released today. Read More | View Original Article

Post Trade Services: why the buy side needs to commit - community blog from Paul Taylor

Measured as a percentage of revenues, financial services firms spend more on IT than any other industry. Research from Deutsche Bank asks how much ... Read More | View Original Article

ACID, BASE and NoSQL - community blog from Amir Halfon

Measured as a percentage of revenues, financial services firms spend more on IT than any other industry. Research from Deutsche Bank asks how much ... Read More | View Original Article

Agility versus the belts - community blog from Derek Perry

Measured as a percentage of revenues, financial services firms spend more on IT than any other industry. Research from Deutsche Bank asks how much ... Read More | View Original Article

Shifting reconciliation up from manual to automated - community blog from Richard Chapman

Measured as a percentage of revenues, financial services firms spend more on IT than any other industry. Research from Deutsche Bank asks how much ... Read More | View Original Article

Alaric ships myPinPad

Alaric, a global supplier of fraud prevention and payments solutions, announced today that it is now offering the innovative myPinPad product. Read More | View Original Article

Deutsche Börse creates IT and market data unit

Deutsche Börse has merged its market data and analytics unit with external technology and connectivity services as it bids to boost its IT-related ... Read More | View Original Article

Ten Years of Competitive Clearing - community blog from Alan Jenkins

Measured as a percentage of revenues, financial services firms spend more on IT than any other industry. Research from Deutsche Bank asks how much ... Read More | View Original Article

How dark are the pools? - Part 3 - community blog from Jennifer Liu

Measured as a percentage of revenues, financial services firms spend more on IT than any other industry. Research from Deutsche Bank asks how much ... Read More | View Original Article

Innovation goes East: dawn of the Technology Spring - community blog from Neil Vernon

Measured as a percentage of revenues, financial services firms spend more on IT than any other industry. Research from Deutsche Bank asks how much ... Read More | View Original Article

CBOE under pressure following software bungle

A badly bungled systems reconfiguration at the Chicago Board Options Exchange that shut down trading for three-and-a-half hours last week is set to ... Read More | View Original Article

How dark are the pools? - Part 2 - community blog from Jennifer Liu

Measured as a percentage of revenues, financial services firms spend more on IT than any other industry. Research from Deutsche Bank asks how much ... Read More | View Original Article

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ResearchAarkstore Enterprise Notebooks/Laptops: 15"-16" Systems

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ResearchAarkstore Enterprise Global Smartphone Application Processor Market 2011-2015

TechNavios analysts forecast the Global Smartphone Application Processor market to grow at a CAGR of 49.5 percent over the period 2011-2015. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increasing demand for high functionality in smartphones. The Global Smartphone Application Processor market has also been witnessing the emergence of dual core application processors. However, the need to reduce the development time could pose a challenge to the growth of this market. Read More

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Sponsor message: Mastering Your Transaction Monitoring System: Improve your Hit Rates and Reduce False Positives

Sponsor message: Mastering Your Transaction Monitoring System: Improve your Hit Rates and Reduce False Positives Read More | View Original Article