Thursday, April 8, 2010

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 08/04/2010



Tradeweb Completes Electronic Links To Major Clearing Houses For OTC Derivatives
Tradeweb announced that the first electronic swap trade on a multi-dealer platform has been centrally cleared by an institutional client.
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Wolters Kluwer Launches Financial Crime Control Platform
Using real-time, continuous behavioral and transaction monitoring and analysis, the Wiz Sentri Financial Crime Control platform is designed to help financial institutions predict and prevent financial crimes before they occur and avoid significant financial losses, compliance exposure and reputational risk, rather than trying to mitigate damage after the fact.
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Finance Social Networking Site LinkedFA Offers New Compliance Feature
The compliance feature for brokerage firms and wire houses provides compliance officers with automatic daily reports on FA's activity.
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Goldman Takes On Critics In Shareholder Note
Goldman Sachs issued a spirited defense in its annual shareholder letter against allegations that it had benefited unduly from government help and bet against its own clients during the financial crisis. financial crisis.
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HHS Expands Health IT Centers
Funds totaling $267 million will be given by the Department of Health and Human Services to develop the health IT industry and help local providers adopt electronic health records.
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Greenspan Says Adequacy of Bank Capital Key Issue
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Wednesday that the key question for regulators seeking to avert future financial crises is to decide what capital levels financial firms should meet.
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Valen and Overland Solutions Partner on Workers' Comp and GL Leakage Solution
The combined services of Overland Solutions and Valen will identify premium leakage resulting from misclassified workers' compensation and GL policies.
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NASA Awards Raytheon $250M
The firm will manage data from satellites that researchers use to observe the effects of climate change on Earth.
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NHL Launches iPad Site
Hockey league looks to Apple's new tablet to extend its digital reach.
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Quad City Launches Family Office
Quad City Bank & Trust taps a trio of SunGard hosted solutions to launch family office services and successfully attract new ultra-high-net-worth customers.
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Medical Data At Risk
Theft of computer equipment, staff and third-party negligence, and inside hackers caused the majority of patient data breaches.
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Crippled Shuttle Arrives At Space Station
Discovery makes clean rendezvous with ISS despite failure of key electronics system.
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Rackspace Unveils iPad Cloud App
Subscribers to the company's hosting service can manage their remote infrastructure through Apple's new tablet computer.
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Android Phones Steal Market Share
Google's mobile device platform is making inroads against offerings from Microsoft and Palm.
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HP 'iPad Killer' Specs Leaked
HP 'iPad Killer' Specs Leaked
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Global CIO: Top 10 Most Strategic Vendors' #1 Challenges
Column about the top challenges faced by the companies on Rob Preston's list of the Top 10 Most Strategic IT Vendors.
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Data Stolen From India, UN, Dalai Lama Traced To China
A report on cloud-based cybercrime details the activities of a gang of computer hackers believed to be operating out of Sichuan Province in China.
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Mass.-Based StonehamBank Taps FIS to Launch Mobile Banking
Technology provider's services allow small bank to offer big bank mobile services.
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Western Digital Intros 600GB SATA HDD
The latest VelociRaptor doubles the storage of WD's fastest SATA hard disk drive.
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Czech Bank Selects SAS Analytics for Marketing Campaigns
Ceska Sporitelna expects up to 50 percent increase in campaign income within first year.
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Comcast Beats FCC In Net Neutrality Battle
An appeals court has found that the FCC doesn't have the authority to regulate the way Comcast manages Internet traffic.
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Deutsche, Luxoft Jointly Develop Risk Management Tool
Platform assists loan origination and credit risk management.
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California CTO Resigns
P.K. Agarwal will become CEO of influential industry nonprofit TiE Global in May.
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Missouri Employers Mutual Uses Thunderhead NOW for Policy and Billing Communications
The workers' comp carrier expects the solution to enable it to accelerate time to market by empowering business users to manage the templates and rules in its customer communications.
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T-Mobile Offers iPhone Trade In
The carrier will give Apple iPhone owners up to $350 for swapping their smartphone for an HTC HD2.
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