Several top executives of UBS, one of the world’s biggest banks, resigned in disgrace this fall following the announcement that a very junior rogue trader in the London office had managed to lose the astounding sum of $2 billion.
Government regulators had already been pushing banks to make sure...
By Richard Bentley, Vice President, Capital Markets, Progress Software
There’s no doubt that today's high speed capital markets and cross product, cross market trade volumes mean regulation struggles to keep up with changes in the market. MiFID II is an example of a financial regulatory...
Recently, I took part in a live Twitter Q&A with our official Twitter feed, @ProgressSW. For those who missed our online chat, we transcribed the Q&A so you can read what I tweeted about optimization, agility,...
The following is a guest blog by Chris Webber, Senior Editor of the Economist Intelligence Unit. He conducted a research study on the role of technology in making business decisions and presented his findings during a session at Progress Revolution Boston 2011.
By: Chris Webber, Senior...
Even if you have the latest and greatest communications technology at your disposal, if the user experience is poor, all value is lost. It is the provider’s job to ensure that user expectations are met and that network disturbances don’t negatively affect the end user’s experience, which could result...