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Wednesday, April 26, 2006 10:53 PM

Information Age? We're Not There Yet -- Notes from Finserv Devcon

Frank Schlier, VP and Distinguished Analyst at the Gartner Group, told financial services developers in New York that we are in the automation transition age -- we are still applying information technology to the ways we did business before computer existed.
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Saturday, April 22, 2006 7:05 PM

Finserv Devcon – Real World Solutions, Live Demos

The New York financial services developers’ conference April 24-25 won’t just be Microsoft PowerPointing to the audience. Software partners and customers who have pushed the proverbial envelop will take to the stage and tell what they have done, and,
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Saturday, April 22, 2006 7:05 PM

Excel - Ready for the Financial Enterprise

Among the latest bits of news -- Excel 2007 which can run on a server, meet the scalability demands of the largest enterprise and distribute spreadsheets without losing control of them. This takes Excel from the desktop to an enterprise solution with
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Saturday, April 22, 2006 7:03 PM

Next Gen Finserv

Frank Schlier, a senior analyst at the Gartner Group, will present the opening keynote at Microsoft’s Financial Services Developers’ Conference in New York April 24-25. The originator of Gartner’s financial services vertical group, he will lead the way
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Saturday, April 22, 2006 7:00 PM

Finserv Developers Conference Highlights Risk and Compliance

Nope, New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer isn’t on the program at Microsoft’s financial services developers’ conference April 24-25 in New York – he’s probably too busy campaigning for governor. But risk and compliance are top of the agenda, said
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Friday, April 21, 2006 5:22 PM

Canadian brokerage simplifies file replication with Windows Server 2003 R2

Mitchell Sandham Inc., a 40-year-old independent insurance and financial services brokerage firm, captures many documents in electronic form - including, since the beginning of this year, all of its policy documents. The problem, says Norm Sandham, president
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Friday, April 21, 2006 5:19 PM

Will banks lose with mobile payments?

"Unlike checks, credit cards and ATMs, it looks as if both Internet and mobile phone payment systems will be led not by banks but by new entries, with potentially profound effects on the evolution of the financial services industry," writes David Moschella,
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Friday, April 21, 2006 5:18 PM

EasyNet promotes BizTalk for SWIFT

EastNets is also holding its annual EastNets Service Bureau (ENSB) User Group Meeting ahead of the SWIFT regional conference in Bahrain on April 23. EastNets, a SWIFT Business, Service, Solution and Service Bureau Partner, is showcasing its PayGate and
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Thursday, April 13, 2006 6:10 PM

Online banking leaders include Microsoft FinServ customers

Wachovia, National City and Bank of America lead in customer experience for online banking, according to Keynote, which just completed a study of leading online bank operations. Chase, Citibank, Wells Fargo and Bank of America sites were determined to
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Thursday, April 13, 2006 6:09 PM

Patni joins Mainframe Migration Alliance (MMA)

Mumbai-based Patni Computer Systems has announced that it has entered the Mainframe Migration Alliance (MMA), an industry representation enabled by Microsoft and industry partners to help customers seamlessly migrate workloads off the mainframe and onto
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Thursday, April 13, 2006 6:03 PM

MS CRM picks up financial services users

Microsoft says that since its introduction in December 2005, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 has been deployed by a broad range of enterprise-scale businesses, including many financial services firms. H&R Block Inc., a leading United States tax service
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