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The Kids Aren’t Alright: A Look at How K-12 Schools Are Failing to Teach Programming
The jobs of tomorrow will require computer skills and, to a growing extent, the ability to code. What happens if a generation of kids is left behind?
Waters USA 2015 C-Level Panel: For Bigger Firms, Time to Make 'Real Bets' as Disintermediation Looms
Senior technologists from the buy side and sell side opened Waters USA with fresh urgency about both cost reduction and disintermediation.
With Outages Rising, Diversification Takes on Greater Importance
Panelists at BST North America discuss the recent spate of outages experienced at utilities, vendors and exchanges.
As Visualization Tools Improve, Data Analytics Moves from ‘Big Data' to ‘Smart Data'
Heads of technology discuss the evolving data analytics space and how visualization tools are helping to compliment the movement.
Unrealistic Expectations: 7 Capital Markets CIOs Discuss Current Challenges, Opportunities
An inside look at new technologies disrupting the market, and the ever-challenging 'people equation'.
NATAS 2015 C-Level Panel: No Worries About Ubiquitous Vendors
In wake of Bloomberg outage, executives discuss the issues around relying heavily on a vendor.
NATAS 2015 C-Level Panel: No Worries About Ubiquitous Vendors
In wake of Bloomberg outage, executives discuss the issues around relying heavily on a vendor.
Waters USA 2014: Top Fear for 2015? Cyber in a Landslide
Impromptu C-level survey reveals anxiety about internal, external vulnerabilities
Waters USA 2014 C-Level Panel: Measuring Tech's Cost—While It's Under Siege
Tech & ops chiefs say budget cuts, cyber threats to continue in 2015
Capability Key as Data Management, Storage Rise to Cloud
Cost no longer the lone differentiator, panelists say.
BST North America Panel: Will Cloud Kill the IT Department?
As more firms outsource technology solutions via the cloud, one asset manager questions the need for an internal technology department at all.
The Who and How of Cyber Criminals
Hackers have grown up in the last decade. They've got more resources, more ways to get into your network, and more things to take once they get in.
BBH to Support Lord Abbett's Ucits Platform
Brown Brothers Harriman will now provide full service support, including passive currency administration, for Lord Abbett's newly-launched, Irish-based Ucits platform.
Opening Cross: Market Data Meteorologists: Forecasting the Many Faces of Cloud
Over 200 years ago, British chemist and amateur meteorologist Luke Howard laid the foundations for the classification of clouds used today, which, in their various forms, can resemble anything from gauzy material shrouding the sky, to flying saucers,…
NAFIS 2014: Cloud's Security Concerns Continue to Outweigh Cost Savings
Firms can deliver significant cost savings by moving their data infrastructures into the cloud, but concerns over security--as well as mistrust of services providers for whom capital markets are not their primary focus--are holding back migration,…
CIOs, CTOs Talk Data Management Frameworks
Sound data management is a three-tiered solution, Lord Abbett CIO Michael Radziemski told his audience during the C-level roundtable at today's North American Trading Architecture Summit. The lowest level is the authoritative data sources. The middle…
CIOs, CTOs Talk Data Management Frameworks
Sound data management is a three-tiered solution, Lord Abbett CIO Michael Radziemski told his audience during the C-level roundtable at today's North American Trading Architecture Summit. The lowest level is the authoritative data sources. The middle…
2013 Cover Stories: The Buy Side
As 2013 draws to a close, we look back over the year's coverage, and focus on the buy-side executives profiled for the magazine's monthly cover story.
Hard Shell, Soft Center: Waters Panelists Talk Information Security
Three buy-side chief technologists told the audience at Waters USA in New York on Monday that managing information security is like rummaging through a box of mystery chocolates—only less sweet.
BYOD Not a Given, Even as BlackBerry Flounders
There was a time in the not-too-distant past when BlackBerry dominated on Wall Street. As the Apple iPhone—and to a lesser extent, Android—gains ground, though, firms are advancing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) strategies, even as some pull back.
Blowback from the Rush to BYOD
UBS Global Asset Management has nearly gone through a full bring-your-own-device (BYOD) lifecycle already. It introduced the program almost by accident, after what was supposed to be a limited pilot with a couple of interns. Word spread, employees…