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Articles from December 2005

Commentary: High-Tech Gadgets for the Financial Technology Executive on Your List

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 year, with its Blackberry-style keyboard below a large screen.

Insurance: GuideOne Insurance to Migrate From IBM Mainframe to Insurity

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.

Banking: From BAI, Fraud Prevention Heats Up

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 about its fraud prevention product in early December.

Capital Markets: Wombat to Provide Market Data Component for Merrill’s New eTrading Platform

Merrill Lynch has chosen Wombat Financial Software to provide the market data infrastructure for the firm’s electronic trading platform.