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Bank Systems & Technology February 22, 2007 Bruno-Britz & Feig	B-to-B Payments Still Relies Heavily on Paper Though e-payments have caught on in just about every facet of consumers' lives, banks still are processing paper for their commercial clients. And while there are signs of progress, adoption rates of B2B e-payments aren't likely to increase any time soon.
Bank Systems & Technology February 22, 2007 Phil Britt	North Shore Credit Union Improves Service and Cut Costs by Eliminating Paper-Based Products FileNet's P8 ECM platform streamlines workflow at North Shore with a secure, centralized content repository for member data that can be accessed across the enterprise, a document-capture tool and an integrated process engine.
Bank Systems & Technology February 22, 2007 Judy Ward	Corporate One Federal Credit Union Decides to Institute a More Proactive Risk-Management Strategy LogicManager's LogicERM software warehouses data, performs a gap analysis between industry best practices and the credit union's practices, and monitors Corporate One's progress on the risk-mitigation gaps that it has identified, among other things.
Registered Rep. February 23, 2007 Halah Touryalai	Retail Hedge Fund Investors to the SEC: Buzz Off The SEC thinks it needs to do more to protect wealthy retail investors from the secretive world of hedge funds. But many wealthy investors say they can take care of themselves.
Registered Rep. February 22, 2007 John Churchill	Baird and Red Granite Call Off the Dogs The feud between regional brokerage firm Robert W. Baird and three former employees who left the firm last year has apparently been settled out of court.
Registered Rep. February 21, 2007 John Churchill	Who's Watching the Watcher? No One, Apparently The NASD fined Raymond James Financial Services $2.75 million today for inadequate sales supervision of its producing branch managers.
Registered Rep. February 21, 2007 John Churchill	Smith Barney Comp Pleasant Surprise Judging from initial reports from reps, the written version of the new plan is an improvement from the prior version -- a plan many reps equated to a pay cut despite the firm's insistence that it was "revenue neutral."
Wall Street & Technology February 21, 2007 Ivy Schmerken	Brokers Back CSAs to Help Buy Side Achieve Best Execution and Pay Research Providers In search of best execution, buy-side firms tap brokers' new commission-sharing arrangements to pay for valuable research.
Wall Street & Technology February 21, 2007 Penny Crosman	The Do-Nothing Costs of Messy Data Architectures: Data Management Still Takes a Backseat at Many Financial Firms Securities firms that fail to devote time and resources to data management practices and tools will find themselves paying a price of increased risk, failed trades and overly expensive data feeds.
Wall Street & Technology February 21, 2007 Anthony Guerra	Raj Mahajan Drives Transformation and Increases Wallet Share as the New President of Sungard's Brass Unit An interview with Mahajan on how he shifts the focus of the integrated trade and order management provider's Brass unit from new sales to serving the needs of existing customers.
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