Practice management

State Street Bank this week announced plans to offer a cloud computing service geared to investors and investment professionals.

Forty-one percent of the more than 2,000 high-net worth individuals surveyed in the Barclays Wealth Insights report said they wish they had more control over their finances, which is critical since emotions can cost investors up to 20% in returns over a decade if they buy high and sell low.

Patsystems said it added London to its network of trading and risk management hubs for futures.

Cinnober Financial Technology introduced a trading system that it said performs "door to door" matching of orders in under 10 millionths of a second.

Financial advisors can have a successful and personally fulfilling practice serving a less affluent clientele than many target.

Depending on which political party you talk to, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is either the most powerful federal agency ever created, or the most constrained.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has fined a former trader at Morgan Stanley $150,000 and barred him from the securities industry for two years after he fooled its risk management system with bogus equity swap deals.

Workshops have long been a popular tool for financial advisors looking to connect with potential new clients but one advisor is taking the traditional workshop to a new and more effective level by getting CPAs, bankers and other influencers to co-host the events.

linkedFA, a social networking web site designed specifically for financial professionals, announced a strategic relationship with Thomson Reuters, the New York-based business information service, to provide financial data to advisors using the social network.

New study finds banks -- large and small -- need to do a better job of implementing the technology and processes necessary to curtail money laundering activity in order to avoid the stiff fines already levied on their peers.

Poll of more than 200 financial advisors finds serious investor angst about their retirement prospects and apprehension about making the investments necessary to improve their outlook.

Even after an embarrassing online porn scandal rocked the regulatory agency last year, a new report from SEC Inspector General David Kotz finds some staffers are still going to great lengths to access these racy sites on company time.

The technology division of NYSE Euronext said its Capital Markets Community Platform will provide direct, on-demand access to high-performance, low-latency services from NYSE Technologies, including its Superfeed of market data, its Risk Management Gateway, its Managed Services Hub, and its global Liquidity Center Network.

An annual global wealth report from Boston Consulting Group finds that millionaire households hold 39% of the world's total net worth but account for only 0.9% of all households.

Leaders who focus on employees' best attributes reap the greatest rewards.

New rules will make it possible for financial fraud tipsters to pocket a bounty of up to 30% of any recovery or sanctions of more than $1 million and provides new protections from employers.

ING Direct's customers now have one more hoop to jump through to use a personal financial management site. ING isn't apologizing for the inconvenience, and perhaps counterintuitively, PFM providers see no reason ING should.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has ramped up its efforts to detect fraud and better work with investors and firms, its management team said on a panel Wednesday.

The shareholders approved a $5.7 million package for Casady, which included an $800,000 salary, $2.2 million bonus and option awards of $2.6 million.

New ABA chief Frank Keating is a delegator who relishes political networking. In other words, he's nothing like Ed Yingling, the group's former CEO, who could pretty much do ...