Bank & Financial

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Wall Street & Technology August 21, 2006 Anthony Guerra	Outer Defenses To win back investors' confidence following a seemingly endless parade of high-profile breaches, remote hardware security has become a differentiating factor for financial services firms.
Wall Street & Technology August 21, 2006 Ivy Schmerken	Exchanges Are Adopting the FPL's FAST Protocol to Speed Up Market Data Rates Industry sources say FAST -- a data compression technology developed by FIX Protocol Limited -- is gaining traction and could become a standard among stock exchanges.
Wall Street & Technology August 21, 2006 Tim Clark	Affirmative Action A flood of new solutions hits the credit derivatives space in an effort to stem the risk of backlogged paperwork.
Wall Street & Technology August 21, 2006 Paul Allen	CIO Challenge: Energy Efficiency To meet the ever-increasing demand for computing power on Wall Street, firms require more and more energy to run their data centers. But faced with skyrocketing energy costs, CIOs are challenged to balance raw computing power with energy consumption.
OCC Bulletin August 22, 2006	Do-Not-Call List Requirements The Telephone Consumer Protection Act and its implementing regulations establish requirements for all entities that conduct "telemarketing," either directly or through a third party -- including national banks.
Registered Rep. August 21, 2006 Kristen French	NYSE and NASD Hold Merger Talks It is not yet clear whether a deal will actually go through, or whether the financial regulators would merge their arbitration systems or keep them separate.
The Motley Fool August 21, 2006 Alex Dumortier	VDM's Not So Special(ist) Rules and regulations bring uncertainty to a once-solid franchise. Value investors should consider that purchasing this Amsterdam-based specialist firm's shares is closer to speculating than investing.
Registered Rep. August 18, 2006 Halah Touryalai	The Pension Protection Act of 2006. Hooray! Pension Protection Act of 2006, which President Bush signed into law, allows Series 7-holders to provide advice to 401(k) plan participants and directs the Secretary of Labor to issue a class exemption for advice provided to IRA holders.
The Motley Fool August 18, 2006 Will Frankenhoff	Banco Itau: Give Credit Where Credit Is Due Banco Itau buys Bank of America's BankBoston operations in Chile and Uruguay. Investors should consider adding to their positions in this rapidly growing Brazilian giant.
Registered Rep. August 16, 2006 Karen Donovan	Put It in Writing: Investors Want Arbitrators to Explain Their Awards Lawyers who represent investors in securities arbitrations hope that a proposed NASD rule -- which would give them the option of demanding written explanations from arbitration panels that hear their disputes against brokerage houses -- will take effect soon.
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