Financial Services Industry news from FierceFinanceIT

Twitter has emerged as handy tool for rogues and hackers. First Direct, an online bank in the United Kingdom , learned this the hard way when hackers took control of the bank's Twitter account to... Read more...

If you aim to really own the financial services industry (financial services news) as a tech vendor, you had better be more than a product pusher--a simple reseller. It's all about subscription... Read more...

We've suggested that New Jersey is emerging as perhaps one of the key data center capitals of the world. Even with the recession and financial crisis, all signs point to the boom continuing. We've... Read more...

Citigroup (C) certainly has a lot on its plate right now, which we've discussed in full over at FierceFinance. But while there have been plenty of distractions related to the overall health of the... Read more...

Are IT workers a vindictive bunch? Well, you could make a decent case. If you've ever worked at a small financial tech firm, you've probably known a few of the tech guys who at some point started to... Read more...

There's certainly been a lot of talk recently about cloud computing and the financial services industry. The great public cloud vendor Amazon was only too happy to talk up the idea for hedge fund... Read more...

A group of technology start-ups, all of which aim to transform various aspects of the financial services industry, have banded together to form a new lobbying organization. The group also wants... Read more...

IBM's agreement to buy SPSS for $1.2 billion confirms that it thinks analytics and intelligence will be a big seller in the financial services industry. One could argue that of all industries,... Read more...

Wall Street's grid and cloud vendor community has undergone some big shifts. Platform Computing has acquired HP-MPI (Message Passing Interface) from Hewlett-Packard; it hired members of the HP-MPI... Read more...

It's no secret that Microsoft aims to be an essential player in the enterprise market, especially the financial enterprise. To that end, it will soon start testing a complex event processing... Read more...