Windows in Financial Services

Following a summer of identity theft warnings sparked by MasterCard’s announcement that 40 million account numbers had been stolen, two of the vendors in the Microsoft booth at the BAI Retail Delivery conference marked one of the industry’s biggest conferences with announcements of new fraud prevention solutions. Meanwhile, a third Microsoft partner made an announcement [...]

Merrill Lynch has chosen Wombat Financial Software to provide the market data infrastructure for the firm’s electronic trading platform.
Though unable to provide specifics of what Merrill is doing with its platform, Wombat’s vice president of business and planning Ken Barnes noted that one of the aspects of Wombat’s technology that most impressed the firm was [...]

2006 looks to be the year that mobility goes Microsoft, whatever the outcome of Blackberry’s patent litigation. A slew of sharp new phones running Windows Mobile 5.0 are hitting the market. Right now the big news is the Palm Treo running Windows with high-speed data access through Verizon, available in the beginning of the new [...]

After two years of evaluating systems, GuideOne Insurance, one of the nation’s largest church insurers, will migrate to Insurity’s property/casualty policy administration system.
“This is a good Microsoft story,” said Insurity senior vice president for sales and marketing David Pedersen, noting that while business leaders had been impressed with Insurity’s functionality, the GuideOne IT department was [...]