At a social media for financial services conference in San Francisco, Hearsay Social announced a new model designed to help firms grow their business through social media.
The Social Business Maturity Model is a quantitative metric companies c...
The latest installment of Ballers tests not only the players, but their support system. And as the old saying goes, if you can’t handle the heat, get out of the kitchen. (Warning, spoilers ahead.)
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Fidelity National Information Services, a banking and payments technology provider, announced Wednesday that it would acquire SunGard for $5.1 billion in cash and stock valuing the financial software company at $9.1 billion. FIS will...
While the financial services sector has been slower to adopt big data than other industries, Envestnet’s purchase of data aggregation and analytics company Yodlee on Monday illustrated how all financial services firms are...
Sliced Investing, a website accredited investors can use to invest in hedge funds and private equity, launched Sliced Institutional on Wednesday to give registered investment advisors easier access to alternative investments...
After this week’s episode of HBO’s Ballers, don’t be surprised if several securities regulators make cameo appearances over the next couple of weeks. (Warning, spoilers ahead.)
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Despite tremendous growth in automated investing technology, there are still many advisors not willing to cede control of clients’ portfolios to a so-called robo advisor.
But they would be making a mistake to completely eschew new technology...
On the latest installment of HBO’s Ballers, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s Spencer Strassmore is called in to clean up several players’ messes—raising the question: how do you juggle needy clients...
