Intel announces a new event to be held in New York City on Dec. 8: fasterSTREET - RISK DATA and ANALYTICS - 101 Park Ave, New York City. Risk management is the pivotal function in financial services. Never has it been more topical than in the current issues facing the market and the pressures mount to address the key features of achieving effective management of risk – protecting the balance sheet, client and market interests.
Given the large number of desktops in the Banco Popular (Spain) fleet and the complexity of today’s IT environment, the time savings enabled by Intel® vPro™ technology’s remote power-up feature will have a significant impact.
Intel announces a new Dec. 15 London event: faster2008 CITY of Innovation and Change. Institute of Electrical Engineers, 2 Savoy Place, London. This event is a festive look back on 2008 and a view forward based on contemporary developments in our industry and market.
To gain a competitive advantage in the very competitive Indian Financial Services marketplace, YES BANK turned to Intel® Solution Services for technology guidance to help the bank develop and implement a secure, wireless and mobile solution, delivering a new branch banking experience in line with its “Bank of the Future” vision.
Watch a short video about Intel’s efforts in reducing latency in the financial services enterprise. Click the box below to watch now (3:09 minutes in length).
Good to the Last Watt: Improving Performance and Efficiency in Wall Street’s Data Centers
A Wall Street & Technology Editorial Perspectives WebCast
Watch and listen (click below) to the webcast recently hosted by Wall Street & Technology on October 15, 2008. With Wall Street data centers straining to keep up with ever expanding capacity demands from all areas of the business, many firms are reaching capacity limits imposed by space and even available power - especially near metropolitan centers. As a result, firms are looking to decrease power consumption and consolidate older servers all while increasing data center capacity to meet the low latency needs of trading desks and the computational needs of risk managers who run complex models and algorithms.
Taiwan’s E.SUN Securities is no stranger to using information and communications technology (ICT) to further its financial services business. More than 50 percent of its financial transactions are now done electronically. The company relies very much on technology despite being spread across 13 locations and supporting over 300 staff, E.SUN Securities has only 15 ICT staff to support its entire operation.
A recent article in Wall Street & Technology highlights Intel’s green credentials with the launch of its latest round of server chips which perform 50% better and use 10% less power than the previous generation of Caneland 7300 chips.
The article quotes Intel fasterFS’s Rick Jacobsen:
“This is great news for people who need to get a lot of work done in a complex environment and need to dramatically reduce that complexity,” says Rick Jacobsen, director financial services marketing, Intel Americas. “It’s a standard server with a dense form factor that can help you consolidate infrastructure while using the latest energy-efficient technology.”
The remote PC management capabilities of Intel® vPro™ technology helps Fuhwa Financial Group attain its Predictive Enterprise vision, solving problems remotely even when PCs are powered down or the operating system (OS) is not functioning.
A recent article in Wall Street & Technology profiles the new solid state drives recently launched by Intel. The high performance, low latency drives have no moving parts and hold up to 80 gigabytes of data. They’re also extremely efficient, using very little electricity.
Risk management is the pivotal function in financial services.
Never has it been more topical than in the current issues facing the market and the pressures mount to address the key features of achieving effective management of risk – protecting the balance sheet, client and market interests.
Introduction by Nigel Woodward, Global Director, Financial Services for Intel, and Keynote presentation by Andrew Perry, JP Morgan Exotics and Hybrids.
From the fasterRISK DATA and ANALYTICS event held in London, 7 October 2008.