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Homeland Security Strategy For Critical Infrastructure Protection In The Financial Services Sector
White Papers The financial services sector is a decentralized and regionalized industry, with several different sector business components - banking, investments, insurance .Many of the security issues relevant to the sector are most usefully defined at the...
[November 5, 2004, 23:00]
IT Spending Soars In Financial Sector
News According to statistics released on Friday by the National Computing Centre (NCC), financial sector growth is being driven by new expenditure in voice over IP (VoIP) services and in online security. Finance companies are ramping up their...
[November 6, 2006, 12:59]
IBM Financial Management Services - Public Sector
White Papers IBM's financial management capabilities help public sector financial managers transition to this partnership style of operating. In government, as in industry, revolutionary changes are sweeping away old styles of financial management.
[April 25, 2005, 0:00]
'Short-term View' Hits Financial IT Sector Morale
News Around two-thirds of IT managers in the sector say IT isn't viewed strategically where they work and almost three-quarters reckon cost-cutting has emerged as the primary driver for any investment in IT.
[April 3, 2003, 8:51]
Pro-Poor Financial Management: Poverty Oriented Budgets In The Wider Context Of Public Sector Financial Management
White Papers This paper addresses the financial management issues of pro-poor strategies. It goes beyond pro-poor budgeting to consider the financial management of revenues, assets and liabilities, accounting and auditing, and the linkage to requirements such...
[April 28, 2005, 0:00]
NetOp Helps Leading Player In Russian Financial Sector Protect Profits And Increase Operating Efficiency
White Papers Established in 1991, Aton Capital has played a significant role in the development of Russia's financial industry since the Soviet era. The company was a founding member of the Moscow Stock Exchange and of the Association of Russian Stock Market...
[June 8, 2005, 0:00]
The Enterprise In Motion: Enterprise Broadband Media (EBM) Applications In The Financial Services Sector
White Papers The purpose of this paper is to provide a clearer understanding about how enterprises within the financial services industry are using broadband media applications to serve customer and employee needs more effectively.
[January 6, 2005, 23:00]
Post-Merger Integration Creates One Of Germany's Largest IT Service Providers For The Financial Sector
White Papers In 2001, two major financial institutions in Germany - a bank and an insurance company - merged. As a consequence, IT service provision for each was consolidated to form one of the largest IT service providers for financial services in Europe.
[November 5, 2007, 23:00]
Compaq Turns Attention To CAD Stations
News After a successful blitz on the financial sector, Compaq UK's workstation division is turning its guns on CAD. New Dataquest figures put Compaq at number two in the workstation sector for the fourth calendar quarter of 1996, even though the company...
[March 6, 1997, 10:46]
HP Blade Workstation Solution For The Public Sector: Workstation Computing Without Boundaries
White Papers HP holds a workstation leadership position in the financial services sector thanks to product innovation that addresses the ever-changing IT requirements of the industry. Through its years of leadership work with, and as an integral IT provider to...
[April 30, 2008, 0:00]
Credit Squeeze Hits Tech Contractors
News The proportion of tech contract workers in the financial services sector is at its lowest level for more than three years. Just 22 percent of IT contractors are working in the sector, according to contractor services company Giant Group, which...
[November 1, 2007, 8:52]
Security Flaws Jeopardise Online Banking - Survey
News Despite this, the financial sector still performed best overall compared to the government, legal and IT sectors. The banking sector came off worst in a survey of 600 network security tests by consultancy NTA Monitor across a broad range of large...
[August 21, 2003, 10:50]
Microsoft Accused Of Staking Claim To The Internet
Talkback This sort of tactic can land one in jail if it's practided in the legal or financial sector. FUD and astroturfing in the IT and IP sector should be illegal with very severe penalties. This is as much a crime as violating client privilege, sellling...
[November 12, 2004, 13:41]
Trends In The Australian Banking System: Implications For Financial System Stability And Monetary Policy
White Papers Because of the links between the real sector of the economy and the financial sector, monetary policy needs to be cognisant of the potential for financial system stability. Financial system stability is defined in terms of the expected...
[September 22, 2003, 0:00]
Dot-com Darlings Set For Relegation Shame
News See techTrader for the latest financial news in the high-tech sector. The continuing slump in the technology sector means that several big-name firms may soon be evicted from the UK's main index of listed companies.
[December 12, 2001, 10:03]
Government Aid Brings Tech Jobs To Yorkshire
News The UK's struggling hi-tech job sector received a boost on Wednesday with the news that financial incentives offered by the Government have persuaded a US software company to open offices in Yorkshire.
[September 5, 2001, 16:53]
City Opportunities Beckon For IT Workers
News A survey of 2,500 contractors found that a third of respondents believe the financial services sector will provide the most career opportunities this year — up slightly on last year. In contrast, only 20 percent of contractors think the public...
[January 4, 2007, 8:08]
Can IM Ever Be Secure?
News Many of them, in turn, will be in financial services, the business sector that has taken to IM more than any other. Financial sector authorities have already responded to the threat. It has enjoyed such a meteoric rise in financial services because...
[April 12, 2005, 17:55]
Government Hails Boom In E-commerce
News According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which has published new results from its 2001 e-commerce survey, UK businesses -- excluding the financial sector -- sold £18.4bn of goods and services via the Internet in 2001.
[October 9, 2002, 15:01]
Spirent Sees Worse Troubles Ahead
News Chief executive Nicholas Brookes is understood to have told reporters that profits for the whole of this financial year will be lower than the year before -- suggesting that a massive drop in spending in the telco sector could be imminent.
[August 30, 2001, 11:47]
