As global accounts director at Altus, Inc., Michelle Klatt’s job is to visit Fortune 500 companies and demonstrate her firm’s video management software. When the
Even though the iPad is designed primarily as a consumer device, salespeople are increasingly adopting it because of its ease of use, convenience, and coolness factor.
Mobile security firm Good Technology Inc. reports that the iPad’s share of enterprise… Read the rest
Jaccs Co. Ltd. has launched a MasterCard-branded credit card designed to help improve the environment, the Tokyo-based card-issuing subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group announced Dec. 10.
All legal residents in Japan ages 18 or older may apply for the… Read the rest
Immersive virtual environments — the kind where you have an avatar walking around that looks like a cartoon version of you — are increasingly being used by companies for virtual meetings, training, and collaboration.
The idea is that a virtual… Read the rest
All equities traded on the Nasdaq Dubai exchange will move over to a new platform starting on June 27, the company said Friday.
The move, it said, is a result of the exchange’s acquisition by the Dubai Financial Market.
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Goldman Sachs, UBS and Société Générale all have been involved in the last year in high-profile cases involving alleged thefts of computer code used in their algorithmic trading strategies for their clients and their own objectives.
The lesson: Even the… Read the rest
After the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, many securities firms implemented financial controls to ensure the accuracy of financial statements. The new act required public companies to strengthen accounting controls and financial oversight.
Spreadsheets are difficult to control… Read the rest
This year, U.S. regulators plan to tighten leverage requirements and oversight of foreign exchange brokers. Securities firms with operations in the United Kingdom will need to increase liquidity reserves and begin daily monitoring of assets that can be converted easily… Read the rest
Opposition appears to be mounting against new rules that would reduce the amount of leverage required in retail foreign exchange trading from the current 400:1 to just 10:1.
Opponents of the rules proposed by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission claim… Read the rest
The theft of 15,000 records of HSBC Swiss account holders is “inexcusable,” according to a security expert who provides consulting services to financial firms, and the bank should have taken steps to prevent the loss.
“As an HSBC customer, I’m… Read the rest