Competitive Advantage news from FierceFinanceIT

High-frequency trading has gotten a lot of attention lately. We've noted that these new-age brokerages and trading outfits now account for 60 percent of all trading volume. While most broker-dealers... Read more...

Bank branches are as crucial as ever to top banks' consumer strategies. In fact, they may be the lynchpin. Especially now, banks need to wring every ounce of competitive advantage they can out of... Read more...

Latency is, of course, a marketing issue these days. To survive as a trading or execution firm, you pretty much have to be able to market yourself as a low-latency service provider and produce the... Read more...

Software and biotech--and increasingly financial services--companies know what the patent wars are all about. Increasingly, in this era of low-cost production, the higher-level value add in any... Read more...