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Bank Systems & Technology May 25, 2006 Art Gillis	BS&T Blogosphere Told You So... Everything I Need to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten... Oops, the Dog Ate My Files... The Salary Survey... Payments Portal... The Web Services Question...
The Motley Fool May 25, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	AmSouth and Regions' Mediocre Merger Hopefully, the combined bank will be more like AmSouth than Regions. Good luck, AmSouth shareholders. You might deserve better than this.
Registered Rep. May 24, 2006 Kristen French	Broker Sanctioned for Violation of Patriot Act After nearly a year and a half since the law's passage and after over a dozen brokerage firm audits, the SEC took its first enforcement action against a broker/dealer. Yet, in so doing, the SEC noted that broker/dealers are generally doing a very good job of complying.
Wall Street & Technology May 17, 2006	StreamBase Upgrades Engine According to the company, the product's StreamOptimizer feature allows the new engine to run three times faster than the previous version and process more than 1 million messages per second with near-zero latency.
Wall Street & Technology May 17, 2006 Cory Levine	Banhidi Switches Gears Equities veteran Andrew Banhidi will apply his trading experience to a new asset class since joining online foreign exchange trading platform FXall as CTO.
Wall Street & Technology May 17, 2006	Dipping Into Dark Pools of Liquidity As private crossing networks and related nonquoting sources of liquidity, known as "dark books," vie for market share among block traders, they are creating a highly fragmented market for block trading, according to a new report.
Wall Street & Technology May 15, 2006 Paul Allen	Banks Take Their Places on the Grid As new alternative investment products are added to the mix, and portfolio managers and risk managers strive to get an accurate view of a fund's value and associated risk, systems are being stretched to the limit of their computing power.
Wall Street & Technology May 15, 2006 Tim Clark	Merrill Lynch Drives Efficiency Through Grid Computing The firm launched two grid initiatives: a robust pricing application for vanilla and exotic derivative portfolios, and advanced analytics and simulations for risk and margin analysis. The result has been a 200% increase in the speed by which exotics are priced.
Wall Street & Technology May 15, 2006 Cory Levine	An Industry in Denial Reg NMS is set to change the foundation of the securities industry and represents the reality of a major industrywide spend. But on whose shoulders that expense will fall remains largely up in the air.
Wall Street & Technology May 15, 2006 Anthony Guerra	The Best of Both Worlds Consumers often face a difficult decision choosing between two similar items. It's only natural, then, that the manufacturer of each product would try to adopt the best features of the other. Such seems to be the case these days with mutual funds and hedge funds.
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