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High Frequency Data Analysis: Considered Decision-Making with TimeScape

December-2009

This paper illustrates how Xenomorph's real-time analytics and data management system, TimeScape, enables extremely rapid and extensible analysis of tick and intraday timeseries data delivering competitive advantage in pre- and post-trade decision support.

How to Secure Online Banking from Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

July-2009

Online banking has been steadily growing over the past decade. Almost every bank worldwide is offering online banking services to retail customers. According to Forrester, online banking adoption in the US will grow by 55% to roughly 72 million households by 2011. By then, 76% of online households will bank online. The growth in online banking adoption in the US also comes from the younger Generation Y, which grew up with the internet and already shops online confidently. But how secure is online banking? Are our financial transactions at risk due to man-in-the-middle attacks? What are man-in-the-middle attacks and how can banks protect themselves and their clients?

How Financial Firms Can Improve Business Integration Capabilities and Increase Straight-Through Processing Efficiency

May-2009

This paper identifies some of the more common issues and challenges such as security and the difficulty in connecting with customers and partners on a global scale. It then discusses how to remove inefficiencies regarding the electronic integration with customers and identifies key solution requirements in solving the business problem of achieving secure and efficient global straight-though processing for transaction management services. This white paper discusses the increased demand placed on financial services organisations to improve their straight-through processing (STP) levels across all business units.