Merrill Lynch news from FierceFinanceIT

When the world wide Web was young, cybersquatting was rampant. People used to sit in their offices and come up with domain names that they thought companies might want. The goal was to get some sort... Read more...

So what's the best way to build trading volume on a fledgling platform? The best method, it would appear, is to give broker dealers some skin in the game, that is, giving them an opportunity to... Read more...

There are a bunch of high-profile tech integrations underway: Smith Barney Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase Washington, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and of course, Wells Fargo Wachovia. In the case... Read more...

Depending on how it works out in Washington, the carbon market could be given a big boost. That just might create some opportunities for big investment banks as well as exchanges. The CME--which has... Read more...

Wall Street & Technology takes a look at some cloud computing development initiatives at big Wall Street firms, including Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and others. One example is AQR Capital... Read more...

There's a lot of critical post-merger integration work underway right now: Wells Fargo-Wachovia, JPMorgan-Washington Mutual, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch and Bank of America-Countrywide. The success... Read more...

The Bank of America-Merrill Lynch deal was fraught with problems, most of which were front-page news. One area of skepticism was the disparate cultures of the firms--Merrill Lynch was all about Wall... Read more...

There have been several studies predicting how technology spending will fare in 2009. Financial Insights offers one of the more bearish reports. It predicts bank technology spending will fall 3.2... Read more...

You'd have to be dead to have missed all the drama over Wall Street bonuses. In Washington, there's a lot of angst over Merrill Lynch's move to accelerate bonus payments, even though the ship was... Read more...

There have been some historic mergers struck in the last year or so. Just look at JPMorgan Chase-Bear Stearns, Bank of America-Countrywide, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch and Wells Fargo-Wachovia--not... Read more...