Technology to help automate and improve the compliance function may not ring a financial adviser's cash register, but it certainly can reduce the time-consuming and potentially costly problems that compliance failures create.
InvestmentView, one of the first software tools to use hypothetical comparisons to help advisers recommend mutual funds, is being re-launched today by Thomson Financial.
E*Assist's Compliance Officer Report Card assists compliance officers in tracking the advisers they oversee.
Although not a major overhaul of its product, Version 3.0 of Money Tree Software Ltd.'s Total Planning Suite offers new reporting features and an updated interface that make it an improvement over the previous incarnation.
Knight Capital has bought EdgeTrade, a privately-held agency-only trade execution and algorithmic software company.
With the purchase, NYSE Euronext hopes to further improve their connectivity, transaction and data-management solutions.
If advisers haven't heard of extensible business reporting language, or XBRL, they soon will.
Online delivery of software tools and data to advisers will be the major focus of 2008 technology innovations, industry experts say.
Schwab Institutional will seek to acquire or partner with more technology vendors, a strategy that follows a doubling in the company's tech budget in 2007.
Schwab Performance Technologies said last Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Etelligent Consulting Inc., a registered investment advisory technology consulting firm.
Experts cite CRM, document management, web portals, integrated adviser platforms and RSS as areas of expected growth.
Schwab Performance Technologies has entered into an agreement to acquire Etelligent Consulting Inc.
The Hartford announced plans today to acquire TopNoggin, a technology firm based in Powell, Ohio.
Advisers thinking about treating themselves this holiday season to new office PCs running Microsoft Vista should think twice: Only a tiny fraction of an adviser's core professional software is likely to be Microsoft Vista-compatible.
NorthStar Systems has rolled out a wealth management platform that includes a suite of services building on the company's many individual offerings.
Advisers have a new, largely undiscovered and relatively inexpensive online database for prospecting for wealthy clients or for researching the giving habits of those they already have.
The technology-solutions provider has completed its $4.4 billion cash acquisition of CheckFree.
While spending on technology in the financial-services sector won't reach double-digit growth next year, it's likely to outpace growth in spending by many other big sector groups.
