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Data Validation Services Continue to Grow
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Mar 04, 2010
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Lisa Valentine
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Complex business requirements and regulatory pressures for transparency are forcing financial organizations to integrate data flows from disparate data sources. |
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Post-Crisis Strategic Priorities for Investment Firms
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Feb 24, 2010
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Lisa Valentine
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As global economies descended deep into recession during the second half of 2008 and first quarter of 2009, the investment management industry experienced a significant decline in revenues. |
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Making Sense of Interstate Insurance Sales
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Feb 18, 2010
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Lisa Valentine
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Proposals to allow the interstate sale of insurance policies have cropped up alongside the continuing efforts to reform the U.S. health care system. |
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Security Services Poised To Grow
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Feb 10, 2010
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Lisa Valentine
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Financial criminals are getting smarter and, as a result, it’s getting even more difficult to protect confidential corporate information, sensitive customer data, and employee records. |
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Awareness of Improved Data Management in Financial Industry
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Feb 03, 2010
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Lisa Valentine
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The financial crisis brought the importance of data management to the attention of financial services industry executives. Easily accessible, reliable and up-to-date information is vital to streamline an organization’s operations. |
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Going After the U.S. Banks to Recover Bailout Funds
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Jan 21, 2010
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Lisa Valentine
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The Obama administration has been criticized for not doing enough to either pass regulations to improve the financial markets or to recover the bailout money essentially paid for by U.S. taxpayers. |
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U.S. Federal Reserve Pondering Exit Strategies
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Jan 13, 2010
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Lisa Valentine
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The U.S. Federal Reserve has begun assessing how to exit crisis management mode and get back to normal functioning. While exiting the stimulus is positive overall, the Fed needs to first address several issues. |
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Investors Not Convinced Recovery is for Real
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Dec 17, 2009
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Lisa Valentine
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Although the U.S. stock market has staged one of the most robust rallies in history, investors are still taking a balanced approach to risk as the possibility of a double-dip recession continues to loom. |
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Adding to Portfolio Safety with Convertible Bonds
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Dec 03, 2009
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Lisa Valentine
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For investors, convertible bonds are gradually gaining favor as a way to increase diversification and balance risk and reward in their portfolios during turbulent markets. |
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Balancing Valuation and Volatility
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Nov 19, 2009
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Lisa Valentine
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Due to the major downturn in the equity markets, equity managers are forced to rework their risk/return calculations. They have a spectrum of equations available: from simple variance statistics to complex Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for model building. |
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Updates to Project Hedge Accounting
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Nov 12, 2009
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Lisa Valentine
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Financial institutions and corporates use derivatives to hedge their risk exposure to global currencies. And as the global economy improves, companies will likely increase their derivatives use to manage an uptick in capital project undertakings. |
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Foreign Exchange Trading and Risk Management
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Nov 05, 2009
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Lisa Valentine
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Foreign exchange trade has increased substantially over the past ten years, driven largely by the growing acceptance by hedge funds and pension funds of forex as an asset class. |
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Mortgage Servicing Industry Faces Major Headaches
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Oct 22, 2009
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Lisa Valentine
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To say it’s a tough time for mortgage lenders and servicers is an understatement. The collapse of the U.S. housing market and subsequent economic downturn has stirred up a wave of regulatory changes and compliance requirements for the mortgage industry. |
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