The costs of fraud include direct monetary loss, fines from regulators and lost potential customers. Then social media amplify the hit to a firm's reputation, according to Progress Software's deputy CTO.

Cyber crime has become the second most common type of economic crime being experienced by financial services firms, after asset ‘misappropriation,’’ according to a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

BATS Global Markets chief executive Joe Ratterman told customers and members of its exchanges that last week's "failure to perform as expected has no excuses.”

New platform will offer perks like an automated money movement process, among other things, which is designed to enhance the client experience.

Paul Harvey has joined Stifel Nicolaus Weisel's European investment banking team as a managing director in the firm's London office, heading up its European technology practice.

The more than 1,300 registered representatives and financial advisors at Ameritas Investment will now be able to breathe easy as they tweet.

Here is the three-part playbook to consult, as advisors and brokers get serious about communicating through social media.

Advisory firms should be aware of changes coming to all Facebook’s brand pages on March 30. New functionality should make the pages even more engaging.

Researchers have developed a model that uses data from Twitter to help predict the volume and value of a stock in an upcoming trading session.

Financial services firms, advisors and brokers can get themselves caught in their own tracks on social media, worrying excessively about SEC rules on disclosures, marketing and communication, but Rajib Chanda, a partner with the Boston-based Ropes & Gray regulatory law firm, says the guidance out there is actually “pretty flexible.”

Advisors may still feel a bit awkward as well as worried about compliance when they use social media, but they’re definitely using it to build their brands and businesses, according to a new SourceMedia study.

State Street Corporation unveiled the State Street Fund Insights Valuation Toolkit to provide timely industry insights for fund managers and directors and help them better manage data.

If an industry-wide fiduciary standard is adopted, what might the practicalities of meeting that standard be? Citi’s financial services unit has some possible technology-based answers to this question.

ING has released a new mobile application that allows ING retirement plan participants to access and manage their retirement plan account information in transit.

CME Group said it will start offering “one-pot” margining of positions in interest-rate swaps and futures, beginning May 7.

Clients of RidgeWorth Investments will now be able to access a variety of functions and data from their investment accounts thanks to a new application available for the iPad.

The San Francisco company has not made it easy for fund families to work through its online platform, featuring five incompatible sites. That's about to change, with an Investment Manager Gateway.

The heart – and brains – of a Wall Street firm used to be the great sales trader, said Matthew Andresen, co-CEO of Headland Technologies. Now, that value increasingly is moving into machines.

“Before allowing our reps to use social media, we needed a technology solution to handle our complex regulatory needs,” says Chad Oppedal, assistant director of compliance for the Principal Financial Group.

Morningstar, Inc. has launched a new alternative investments center as part of several enhancements to MorningstarAdvisor.com, a free website that provides advisors with practice management information, investment trends, and industry insights.