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Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Cory Levine	Fighting ID Theft and Fraud As criminals dream up new and more-sophisticated schemes to steal and profit from personal data, consumer confidence in e-commerce, including online financial services, is taking a hit. Online users expect the financial industry to take action.
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Cory Levine	A New View of Risk Only now are financial firms approaching the risk associated with their technology infrastructures as a business-critical initiative with substantial bottom-line implications and devoting greater resources to their maintenance.
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Jessica Pallay	The Buy Side Buys In In 2006, it will be impossible to ignore the enhanced productivity gained from algorithmic trading systems. As the buy side takes control of its own trading processes, automated trading frees up humans to focus on more-complex trading decisions.
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Paul Allen	Turning the Tide As ECNs and other alternative trading systems have emerged, fragmentation in the capital markets has increased. But with the acquisitions of Archipelago by the NYSE and of the Brut and INET ECNs by Nasdaq, the tide may be turning.
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Anthony Guerra	Hard Times for Soft Dollars Changes to soft dollar practices are of interest to both sides of the Street since the tightening of the SEC's safe harbor clause -- which details what may be paid for with soft dollars -- will require the buy side to shell out hard dollars for more goods and services.
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Cory Levine	Retirement Boom Retiring investors will be removing assets from retirement planning investments and rededicating them to other objectives. As they do, retirees will take their funds to whomever offers the management program most attuned to their needs.
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Greg MacSweeney	Flush Firms Eye Acquisitions After posting record profits in 2005, many financial services firms are looking to acquire smaller players with unique business lines and/or financial products, or to bolster their technology.
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Larry Tabb	Data: The Final Frontier If we can develop the flexible and informative infrastructure to capture, clean and manage accurate data quickly, then our traders, bankers, analysts and financial engineers certainly can figure out how to profit by it.
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Cory Levine	Temple Joins Bank of New York As part of its business expansion, Bank of New York hired Ken Temple as senior vice president of the BNY Global Transition Management unit.
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Cory Levine	Rausch Leaves Calyon, Returns to TT The eBrokerage head has returned to Trading Technologies International is EVP of global support and CIO.
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