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Securities Industry News Clips from 2001
eSpeed
Charts Road To Recovery
The events of Sept. 11 hit the firm of Cantor Fitzgerald harder than any
other company in the World Trade Center.
E-Securities Paid Archive
(December 2001)
Elusive
Goal of Product Convergence Now Gets A Big Boost From Technology
While the success of financial supermarkets has been spotty in the past,
the inroads of technology in both front and back-office operations may
finally be creating an environment amenable to the concept.
E-Securities Paid Archive
(December 2001)
Thin-Client
Benefits Back in Spotlight Among Street Firms
If an application is distributed over the Internet through a Web browser
interface, there is no need to reinstall it on each new desktop-and no
need for desktops to be physically connected to a mainframe.
Securities Industry News
Paid Archive (November 2001)
Completely Redundant
From the moment it was proposed, there were skeptics. People wondered
why the New York Board of Trade needed to maintain a backup trading floor
at a cost of $300,000 a year. After all, typically not even major exchanges
have such sites.
E-Securities (October
2001)
Contingency Plans in the Spotlight
The Sept. 11 attacks demonstrated clearly-and tragically-that disaster-recovery
planning is not a luxury, but a necessity in today's world. But it also
highlighted flaws and weaknesses in many long-established plans.
E-Securities (October
2001)
Mixed Reviews On Wall Street
For Innovative XP
Windows XP is the most innovative addition to the Windows
family in years, finally burying the old MS-DOS code base and moving everyone-both
consumers and businesses-to the same NT architecture…
Securities
Industry News (October 2001)
High-End ServersBattling
to Win Financial Firms
Both IBM and Sun Microsystems have recently announced
new high-end servers that mimic mainframe functionality, that hold promise
for the financial services sector, but their timing could have been better,
experts say…
Securities
Industry Newss
Paid Archive (October 2001)
Radianz,
Global Crossing Find Redundancy Pays
With redundant systems and quick response procedures, both Radianz and
Global Crossing Ltd. got their customers up and running quickly after
Sept. 11.
Securities
Industry News Paid Archive (September 2001)
Tech
Companies Rush To Help Clients recover
More than any other industry on the planet, financial services depends
on an extensive technological infrastructure, and in the days following
the attack technology providers rushed in and worked round the clock to
restore this infrastructure to full functionality.
Securities
Industry News Paid Archive (September 2001)
Napster-like
peer-to-peer Systems spread
The courts may have brought Napster to its virtual knees, but other peer-to-peer
applications are still alive and kicking-and not just in the music business.
Securities
Industry News Paid Archive (September 2001)
Post-Merger LabMorgan: Combined
E-Com Unit Still in the Hunt for Innovative Technologies
Before completing their high-profile merger just after the first of the
year, both Chase Manhattan and J.P. Morgan responded to the growing possibilities
of electronic commerce by creating in-house divisions dedicated to finding,
investing in and sometimes spinning off promising technology companies.
E-Securities (October
2001)
Web Services on the Real-Time
Internet
The U.S. government may be trying to break up Microsoft's
monopoly through lawsuits, but the real battle over the company's
future is being fought on a different front. It involves a new way of
writing software, called Web services, and it promises to make operating
systems, the very thing that forms the foundation of the Microsoft empire,
irrelevant…
E-Securities
Aug./Sep. 2001
Wall
Street Firms Look Externally for Web Security
The Code Red worm didn't do as much harm as expected during its infestation
earlier this summer.
Securities
Industry News Paid Archive (August 2001)
Building
Portals Doesn't ensure Customers will come
Last year, single-dealer portals were seen by major broker-dealers as
a way to reduce costs, increase customer satisfaction, and reach new markets.
Today, that promise has been mostly unfulfilled.
Securities
Industry News Paid Archive (August 2001)
Microsoft gears up to battle
Java on Wall Street
Sun Microsystems' Java technology, combined with emerging XML standards,
makes it easy for Java applications on one platform to interact with Java
applications on any other platform.
Securities
Industry News Paid Archive (July 2001)
Reaction
Mixed as SuperSoes Rolls Out
The SuperSoes trade execution system, which Nasdaq is attempting to roll
out for the third time this week combines features of the current Small
Order Execution System (Soes) and Selectnet.
Securities Industry News
Paid Archive (July 2001)
Video
Connection spreading across traders' desks
Videoconferencing has long been a staple of science fiction, but has taken
longer to catch on in the real world than anyone expected.
Securities
Industry News Paid Archive (June 2001)
Peer-to-peer
appeal for distributed computing efforts
While peer-to-peer systems like Napster are the tech topic of the moment,
a close cousin-peer-to-peer distributed computing-has actually shown itself
to be more useful.
Securities
Industry News Paid Archive (June 2001)
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