Fidessa Group said it added foreign exchange trading to its buy-side workstation. The execution platform will provide advanced trading features for more than 1,300 currency pairs, the supplier of high-performance trading technology said.

The SEC has charged an Illinois-based investment advisor with using LinkedIn and other social media channels to attempt to sell $500 million in fictitious securities.

Advisors seeking better client communication tools are likely to have their wish come true because wealth management firms are expecting to increase their IT budgets by 5% to 10% this year.

New York Life Retirement Plan Services, a division of New York Life Investments, has launched a new client-satisfaction benchmarking tool for retirement plan advisors.

Social media compliance is a subject that elicits a range of reactions from planners, from groans to cautious, curious questions. But Leia Farmer, the deputy chief compliance officer at Securities America, isn't afraid.

You never know what to expect. But events of 2011 gave plenty of clues for what lies ahead in 2012, as trading firms and exchanges speed up and beef up.

From Deutsche Boerse trying to acquire NYSE Euronext to the 10-microsecond trading cycle, here are the Top 10 Stories of 2011 affecting the technology and operations of capital markets as measured—in large part—by your viewership.

When Bank of America Merrill Lynch financial advisor Jay Fields had to do a couple of swaps on Monday morning from one security to another, he said the process was seamless thanks to a new portfolio management and trading platform.

Of all the social media sites that Aite Group followed in its study, only the use of LinkedIn grew between 2009 and 2011.

The time for watching and waiting is over. Twitter is a cultural phenomenon and more and more financial advisors are setting up Twitter profiles and testing the waters to connect with existing clients, promote their services to potential new clients and share industry news and insight with their peers. Here's what you need to know.

TJ Gilsenan, the Web Savvy Advisor, says it's time for advisors (if they haven't already) to start tweeting. Here are some tips to help you and your firm start taking advantage of this powerful social media tool.

Market volatility is pushing fund managers to look for robust investment risk management systems, says a report from financial consultancy Celent.

Here’s one way RIA firms can measure their firms’ success: they can see everything from where their revenue is coming from to total assets under management — benchmarked to other firms — the same way you’d look at dials on a car dashboard.

Nasdaq OMX Group and a European provider of direct access to securities markets said they will provide “dynamic” pre-trade, at-trade and post-trade controls to broker-dealers serving high-speed trading firms.

Cloud computing, software-as-a-service and Big Data cited by Fidelity’s technology portfolio managers as the high-tech trends to watch.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch said it will market a broker-neutral trading platform named Thunder, to institutional customers in Asia.

Fidelity Investments has added an automated, end-to-end, web-based validation and notification service to its corporate actions service, ActionsXchange.

Financial data, analytics and disclosure management services provider Edgar Online has launched I-Metrix Enterprise, the latest version of its I-Metrix professional risk analysis technology.

LPL Financial said it has added more than 500 net new advisors this year, bringing it close to 13,000. The additions came as the company prepared hikes in the fees it charges them.

Financial advisors looking to save costs, improve productivity and meet compliance standards recognize the importance of an effective document management application that goes above beyond Adobe Acrobat – but thus far the options remain fairly limited.