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Wall Street & Technology January 6, 2006 Leslie Kramer	Powering Up the Grid Recently, many financial services firms have begun looking into grid computing. By taking advantage of unused CPU capacity, IT departments can increase transaction speed, improve computing agility and reduce costs.
Wall Street & Technology January 6, 2006 Ivy Schmerken	Transforming the American Stock Exchange An interview with Antoine Shagoury, the American Stock Exchange's EVP and CIO on his plans for revamping Amex's trading platform, consolidating legacy platforms and making the exchange more competitive.
Wall Street & Technology January 6, 2006 Paul Allen	Is EDGAR Headed for XBRL? The SEC released a draft request for proposals for a new contract to overhaul its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) system and enable it to embrace interactive data formats such as eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL).
Wall Street & Technology January 6, 2006 Anthony Guerra	Excellence in Execution Despite the limitations of transaction cost analysis (TCA), most experts agree that trading and TCA now go hand in hand, and the buy-side's growing role in trading means TCA will be important to the sell-side of Wall Street, too.
Wall Street & Technology January 6, 2006 Paul Allen	Reference Data to Go? In signing up for Accenture's Managed Reference Data Services (MRDS), Wachovia joins a handful of firms opting to outsource reference data operations. But reference data outsourcing does have drawbacks.
Wall Street & Technology January 6, 2006 Leslie Kramer	CIO Challenge: IT Portfolio Management CIOs at financial services firms constantly are looking for ways to run their IT departments more efficiently. But figuring out a way to measure the benefits of IT portfolio management is not always obvious.
Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2006	More to Offshore Most financial institutions are not taking full advantage of the potential cost benefits of offshore outsourcing, according to a survey of global financial services companies.
Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2006	Workforce Diversification Diversity continues to grow within the securities industry, where women and minorities represent an increasing portion of the workforce, according to a recent study.
Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2006	Behavioral Security With the recent SEC and FFIEC recommendations casting a spotlight on online account security, behavioral biometrics has emerged as an increasingly popular technique for financial services institutions to meet federal regulators' call for multifactor authentication for online account security.
Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2006	Hackers Target Financial Services The financial services industry is the No. 1 target of security probes by criminal hackers, according to a report on network attack trends on vertical industries.
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