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The Economy Made Me Do It!

May 20, 2013

Teresa Bazemore, President of Radian Guaranty Inc., led a dialogue about ways to encourage private capital and the private mortgage insurance industry to return to the housing finance market during the FSOkx forum: “From Meltdown to Transformation: Facing the Next Generation of the Mortgage Industry.”

Executive Q&A: Transforming Data into Intelligence to Drive Business Growth

February 11, 2013

Fareed Saeed, Vice President of Product Management at XTRAC Solutions, a Fidelity Investments Company, discusses how financial services firms can leverage data

Executive Q&A: The Culture of Compliance

May 8, 2012

Mark Schlageter, Managing Director of Governance, Risk, and Compliance, Thomson Reuters: There’s absolutely a change in how financial services firms view compliance.

Executive Q&A: The Shift from SMA to UMA

July 22, 2011

FSOkx had the opportunity to speak with Gib Veconi, CEO of Peridrome Corporation, about the results of Peridrome’s 2011 Managed Accounts Executive Outlook survey. According to the study, the industry’s transition to unified managed accounts (UMA) can create opportunities for service providers—if they know where to look for them.

Executive Q&A: Advocating Data Management

May 29, 2011

Thanks to regulatory pressures and the economic meltdown, data management is no longer the “ugly stepchild of IT” and is instead a top-three priority for financial firms, says Michael Atkin, Managing Director of the non-profit, member-owned EDM Council. FSOkx spoke with Atkin about the council and what needs to happen industry-wide to improve data management.

Anti-Outsourcing Bill: Politics Vs. Economics

July 29, 2010

New York Senator Charles Schumer has announced that he is supporting an anti-outsourcing bill that would tax businesses 25 cents for each call that is made from the U.S. but transferred to an overseas data center.

Should Banks be Nationalized?

April 10, 2009

Can the current lending logjam be released by nationalizing U.S. banks, at least temporarily? Does the end justify the means?

Is Green IT Dead?

March 6, 2009

Is the sorry state of the world economy bad news for the planet from an environmental perspective? Will IT providers continue to move toward green computing, even if the cost is higher? And will financial services organizations focus on cost cutting rather than sustainability, low emissions and less energy usage?

Does One Bad Apple Spoil The Whole Bunch?

February 3, 2009

Early this year B. Ramalinga Raju, chairman and founder of India-based outsourcer Satyam,

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