Practice management

Broadridge Financial Solutions said it is beginning to supply post-trade processing services to prime brokers and investment banks.

I’m in Chicago today where I’ll be speaking on a panel about social media and building a strong online presence at the Women Advisors Forum.

Most say job interviews at leading financial institutions are generally good experiences, according to anonymous reviews from job seekers posting to the online community website Glassdoor.com

Citigroup has completed an "extensive upgrade" of its electronic trading infrastructure and now says it is providing institutional clients with continuous, 24-hour access to global markets.

John Hancock Retirement Plan Services has introduced a second generation of its PRIME Elements iPad application for retirement plan advisers and consultants.

Moody's has launched a mobile-optimized version of Moodys.com that allows market participants to see Moody’s credit ratings and research on smartphones and other mobile devices.

Nearly three years since the financial crisis began, lawmakers appear consumed again with a very precrisis topic: Is overregulation driving financial institutions overseas?

Fifty-four percent of adults age 65 or older are confident in their retirement preparedness, according to Charles Schwab’s latest quarterly retirement pulse survey. But only 26% of those between the ages of 18 and 34 share those feelings.

The CFA Institute this week said 43% of the 185 investment professionals who sat for the Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement (CIPM) program exam in April managed to achieve a passing grade and can now add the CIPM designation to their resumes.

A report conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and released this week by SAS, the big business analytics software firm, warns that financial institutions, particularly in the U.S., are “feeling too comfortable” about their risk management systems and suggests they may be unprepared for the next crisis.

Two years after proposing rules to avert misuse of client assets on the scale of the Madoff ponzi scheme, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed amendments that would strengthen oversight of broker-dealer audits.

Huntington Bancshares this week rolled out mobile banking applications for customers' iPhones and Android-powered smartphones that will allow them to check balances, pay bills and transfer funds on the fly.

Portware said it is working with Thomson Reuters to create a broad range of trading services, available globally on-demand.

Orange Business Services said it launched an online store for selling applications that can run on its intelligent trading turret devices. The apps will run on its Open Trade smart turret, introduced in 2010 and intended to be used as a “personal trading assistant.''

A survey of 1,009 adults by Edward Jones on their retirement savings found good news and bad news. While 15% said their portfolios have recovered from the economic downturn, up from 12% in April 2010, 25% are not saving for retirement, up from 16% a year ago.

The question of whether some banks are still "too big to fail" will not be settled until the next crisis. That, in a nutshell, was the takeaway from a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Tuesday, where lawmakers fought with each other over whether the Dodd-Frank Act adequately addressed the problem.

As an advisor, are you the equivalent of an “economic good” or a “free good?” Advisors who want to succeed in the future must make sure they are an “economic good” type of advisor and not a “free good” advisor.

As an advisor, your website is your most important piece of Internet real estate. It’s the first stop for people who want to learn more about you. In fact, it's likely that your website now makes more first impressions than you do. As such, it plays a significant role in shaping people’s opinion of your practice and your services so it's crucial to do it right.

Fixnetix said it had developed a microchip that achieves "wire-to-wire" execution of trading instructions in less than one microsecond.

Executing a trade isn’t easy. Broker-dealers have to figure out where to trade, when to trade and how much to trade in a way that will minimize their total costs.