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Bank of America's Whitston Describes Benefits of Horizontal Services Model
At Waters USA 2015, Alla Whitston, enterprise CTO for technology infrastructure at Bank of America, explained Persona, a new project that allows the firm to determine what technology should be afforded to its employees in a standardized way.
Social Alpha Targets Banks Following Innovation Lab Program
The vendor is expanding its customer base beyond hedge funds to investment banks
Innovation Comes Through Mentorships, Not Labs, Says BofA's Reilly
Bank of America CIO David Reilly chats with Dan DeFrancesco about working with start-ups to address the bank's technology needs.
New York Fintech Innovation Lab Holds Demo Day at Bank of America NY Headquarters
Seven start-ups presented in front of a group of banks, venture capitalists and technology executives.
Options Industry Conference 2015: Balance Sheet Restraints, Exchange Controls Top Tech To-Do List
Three large banks in the space cite Basel III woes, pre-trade safety checks as key.
On Everyone’s Radar: The Short History of Cyber Crime
Cyber crime is not a new trend and as the volume of attacks increase lessons can be learned from historic cases.
Operational Risk Groups Tackle Data Governance as Regulations Rise
Panel at OpRisk North America discusses how regulations like Basel have forced banks to take another look at their approach to data.
Kowalski Brings Midas Touch to San Francisco Consultancy
Data management advisor links services to First San Francisco Partners
KYC: Know Your Choices
Know-your-customer (KYC) requirements, hardly a bank’s most value-added function, have become a popular topic among operations, compliance, and reference data professionals, with a growing consensus that KYC checks can be done cheaper and more…
Montag Becomes Sole COO at Bank of America
Thomas Montag will become the only chief operating officer (COO) at Bank of America after his co-COO, David Darnell, accepted a new title at the tier-one firm.
Fits and Start(up)s: Chasing New Fintech Innovation Models
Incubators, accelerators, and mentoring programs have gained favor in recent years as start-up financial technology providers look to partner with clients—and potential strategic investors—earlier in the launch process, and global financial centers seek…
In the CDO's Chair
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Bottega Plans Collaboration at EDM Council
John Bottega, a former chief data officer at a few major firms who recently joined the industry organization as an advisor, intends to work with member firms on data management strategies
BofA's Bessant Embraces BYOD, Eyes Big Data's Interest vs. Impact
At a time when few institutions can countenance a wholesale technology reform program, Bank of America is storming ahead on the mobile front, in addition to undertaking a total infrastructural transformation and the goal of developing single platforms…
AFTAs 2013: Best Infrastructure Initiative—Bank of America
When it comes to financial technology, the key word has always been efficiency. For execution, that comes down to finding the right venues to trade with the best results for internal desks or external clients. For compliance, it’s about identifying and…
Bank of America's Pappas Discusses Cloud Uses and Concerns
Bill Pappas, CIO, Global Wholesale Banking Technology & Operations at Bank of America talks to Waters at Sibos 2013, in Dubai.
Code Red Hires President, Preps Expansion
Boston-based research management system provider Code Red has made two executive appointments in preparation for a hiring spree designed to increase the vendor's capacity to win and support larger deals for its Core Red RMS (formerly called Red Alerts)…
Burning Issues: Could an Instant Message Be Worth a Thousand Bloomberg Terminals?
Max Bowie takes a well earned vacation this week, leaving Faye Kilburn to discuss Markit's Open Federated Chat, a potential alternative to Bloomberg's Instant messenger
Where the Data Buzz Is
Data management developments and discussions breathed life into last month's Sifma Tech Expo.
Maximizing Metadata
The concept of metadata is emerging in importance for financial services industry firms' data management operations. It's a field that could produce great benefits for managing risk through more accurate management of data
UBS, Bank of America Find Value in DMM Model
Using the EDM Council's Data Management Maturity (DMM) model, UBS Securities and Bank of America have been able to improve on their data governance and data management, officials say
BAML Exec: "Granular Data Creates Aggregation Challenges"
A Bank of America Merrill Lynch director told delegates at this week's North American Financial Information Summit that firms face challenges aggregating the more granular data now required for risk management