linkedFA, a social networking site for financial advisors and professionals, has boosted its content offerings thanks to a deal with press release distributor Businesswire.

Although Hurricane Irene may have wreaked havoc on millions of households across the East Coast, the storm had little impact on core post-trade clearing and settlement activities.

The New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Stock Market, Direct Edge and BATS Global Markets said they will open for business at 9:30 a.m. Monday, for normal operations.

There are a lot of technology nightmares that follow a merger, but untangling contracts for software and other systems is one of the biggest.

Hurricane Irene is expected to make landfall Saturday in coastal North Carolina and hit the turf that houses the data centers that make up Wall Street on Sunday.

Steve Jobs' resignation as Apple Computer's chief executive may prove a mixed bag -- but a critically important one -- for banks.

At focus11, LPL Financial's national conference held earlier this month, it was clear that social media was clearly more than just a casual "focus" for the 5,000-plus attendees. Along with several well attended sessions, LPL had a station on the exhibit floor dedicated to the topic that enjoyed constant advisor traffic.

The website of the Morningstar firm went down for an undisclosed period Tuesday, the same afternoon an earthquake rattled the East Coast from a site near Mineral, Virginia.

Broker-dealers don’t have to track every message sent through social media -- only ones that relate to business purposes. And unscripted interactions? They can be reported after they occur.

The most highly attacked operating system in mobile computing is Android, from Google, according to a security technology unit of chipmaker Intel.

SS&C Technologies Holdings said it agreed to acquire an Irish supplier of administrative services for investment funds.

From minding procedure to the minds of digital criminals, here is a diverse collection of books to pick from. Kick back with (and learn from) one, wherever you are under the sun.

Exchanges around the world should discourage market participants from gcreating excessive low-qualityh messages that can clog trading networks, two trade groups representing automated trading firms said this week.

Socialware, the Austin, Texas-based firm that helps mutual fund, brokerage and other financial services firms track their social media communications and stay in compliance with company and industry regulations, has secured another $7 million in funding.

Social networking? Everyone's doing it. Particularly your next generation of fund customers. You will want to reach them, as they walk and talk through the Internet.

Thomson Reuters said it began providing high-speed information and trading services to foreign currency trading firms, from its London data centers.

With Google's announcement of its agreement to acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings, the search giant has potentially turbocharged its mobile payment plans.

They're an elongated equivalent of a ticker tape. Instead of four-character symbols and another four characters of pricing information, they're 140 characters of insight and links to deeper information.

Ever wonder what one second of high-frequency trading actually looks like? Here's a video that slows down the flow of market data and transactions flowing through one second of trading. See if you can follow what's going on.

Institutional traders trying to move large blocks of stock in the face of market swings are driving venues such as Liquidnet to new volume records.