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Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2005 Anthony Guerra |
Data First Morgan Stanley is no exception. John Fleming, managing director of retail operations with the firm, is working on a straight-through-processing project that will validate, centralize and streamline the flow of data throughout his firm's vast enterprise. |
Wall Street & Technology April 27, 2004 Anthony O'Donnell |
Integrating All That Data To reduce the costs of processing trades and eliminate errors, Swiss American, a custodian bank operating under the Credit Suisse umbrella, is attacking data integration. |
Wall Street & Technology November 29, 2004 Ivy Schmerken |
Learning How to Share Banc of America Securities has made major cost-cutting strides by creating a central hub to aggregate and validate reference data so a single source can feed front-, middle- and back-office applications. |
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Kerry Massaro |
Shared Data Services Several consulting firms and one vendor are looking to build separate utilities that would allow broker-dealers and investment managers to outsource their data services to achieve cost savings. A second model being considered is a utility owned and operated by the industry firms themselves. |
Bank Technology News November 2001 David Rountree |
Securities Industry Grapples with STP Challenges To completely automate the trade process, U.S. firms will have to spend billions to overcome a bevy of complex obstacles... |
Registered Rep. May 1, 2005 Will Leitch |
So They've Got That Going for Them...Which Is Nice For all the problems it's been having in the last several months, Morgan Stanley can hang its hat on this good news: It is now the largest securities firm in the country. |
Wall Street & Technology March 17, 2008 Penny Crosman |
Getting That Single Version of the Truth on Wall Street Firms all across The Street are pursuing data management overhauls. |
CIO July 1, 2004 Elana Varon |
Mutual Benefits To regain investor confidence and improve the bottom line, the mutual fund industry needs to integrate transactions up and down the supply chain. |
Registered Rep. October 20, 2010 Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley Q3 Earnings Dive 67%, Wealth Management Is Most Profitable Division Morgan Stanley Smith Barney dunked into the red in the third quarter, with earnings falling 67 percent to 5 cents a share, due to a sharp decline in the firm's institutional securities business. |
Registered Rep. July 1, 2004 Will Leitch |
The End of the World as We Know It? Is the traditional model for securities houses --- investment banking, research, asset management, retail brokerage all coexisting under one roof --- more trouble than it's worth? |
Registered Rep. September 17, 2008 Geracioti & Touryalai |
Morgan And Wachovia? The need for the kind of capital offered by customer deposits apparently is driving securities firms into the arms of banks. |
Wall Street & Technology January 6, 2006 Paul Allen |
Reference Data to Go? In signing up for Accenture's Managed Reference Data Services (MRDS), Wachovia joins a handful of firms opting to outsource reference data operations. But reference data outsourcing does have drawbacks. |
Wall Street & Technology April 27, 2004 Jim Middlemiss |
Integration: The Wheel That Makes STP Spin Before firms can hope to achieve straight-through processing or one-day settlement of trades, they have to get their systems and data to speak to each other. |
Wall Street & Technology February 21, 2007 Penny Crosman |
The Do-Nothing Costs of Messy Data Architectures: Data Management Still Takes a Backseat at Many Financial Firms Securities firms that fail to devote time and resources to data management practices and tools will find themselves paying a price of increased risk, failed trades and overly expensive data feeds. |
Wall Street & Technology January 23, 2007 Peter A. Horowitz |
On the Offensive The mega changes brought about by globalization, demographics, new regulation and new technologies, as well as diminishing product profit margins, disintermediation and previous underinvestment, will be compounded by fundamental changes in the financial industry's structure and makeup. |
InternetNews May 17, 2004 |
Securities Industry IT Spend to Hit $71.5 Billion While double digit increases are long gone, the Tower Group finds North American securities industry IT spending on the rise. |
Registered Rep. October 19, 2011 Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Reels In $15.5B in Assets, 300 FAs Exit, Margins up to 11% Morgan Stanley's global wealth management group finally raised its pre-tax profit margins in the third quarter, which climbed to 11 percent from 9 percent. |
Registered Rep. July 21, 2011 Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley Plans More Cost-cutting in Retail Brokerage; Integration on Target, Net Asset Flows Up Morgan Stanley financial advisors should expect more cost-cutting in the global wealth management division in coming quarters. |
Registered Rep. May 9, 2007 Christina Mucciolo |
Morgan Stanley to pay $7.96 Million for Best Execution Fraud The SEC announced that Morgan Stanley will pay penalties to settle the charges against the firm for failing to provide best execution to clients. |
InternetNews April 27, 2004 Clint Boulton |
IBM Tallies $575M On-Demand Deal Big Blue will build a utility computing platform for the financial services giant Morgan Stanley under a new five-year deal. |
The Motley Fool June 21, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson |
Morgan Stanley's Mighty Swing The investment bank knocks results out of the park. Can it last? Investors, take note. |
Registered Rep. April 21, 2011 Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Assets Up, Headcount and Margins Down Morgan's other two divisions -- institutional securities and asset management -- recorded declines in income and revenues. |
Wall Street & Technology July 1, 2005 Maria Santos |
Fast Facts According to the Securities Industry Association's 2004 Investor Survey, nine out of 10 investors are "very" or "somewhat" satisfied with the service provided by their investment professional. |
Bank Technology News December 2008 Jim Gahagan |
Centralizing Payments With SOA Recent standards and advancements in imaging, real-time data access and service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology have now made it possible to centralize payments without costly replacement of systems. |
The Motley Fool March 22, 2007 Ryan Fuhrmann |
Worst to First at Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack has quickly put Morgan Stanley back on the pedestal of highly respected Wall Street firms. How long it stays there is anyone's guess, but now may not be the time for investors to bet against it. |
The Motley Fool September 21, 2006 Ryan Fuhrmann |
Motley Fool Double Take: Morgan Stanley Bulges Forward Morgan Stanley reported another strong quarter, but has all the easy money in the stock now been made? |
Wall Street & Technology September 19, 2006 Tim Clark |
The Quiet Market Explosion While most of the industry has been focusing on exotic investment products and emerging markets, the securities lending market has boomed into a $16 trillion business. But with rapid growth comes substantial risk. |
The Motley Fool December 13, 2011 Evan Niu |
MBIA Shares Popped Then Gave It Back: What You Need to Know Shares of bond insurer MBIA popped this morning by 11%, but have given it all back and are sitting slightly in the red as of this writing, after it settled an ongoing suit with Morgan Stanley. |
National Real Estate Investor June 18, 2003 |
Morgan Stanley Buys Lend Lease's U.S Real Estate Assets After weeks of speculation, Morgan Stanley has agreed to buy most of Lend Lease's U.S real estate investment arm. The purchase will bring Morgan Stanley's real estate assets to $30 billion once the deal is finalized. |
Registered Rep. March 8, 2012 Kristen French |
Due Diligence: Morgan Stanley Advisors Paid to Put Clients in New Amex Credit Card Morgan Stanley Smith Barney financial advisors and client service associates will get a "small" amount of compensation for the administrative process of handling card sign up. |
Bank Systems & Technology October 14, 2008 Orla O'Sullivan |
Tabb Names Banks Goldman, Morgan Are Likely To Purchase Bank of New York Mellon, State Street and Northern Trust are all likely acquisition candidates for Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as the two former investment banks begin operating under commercial bank charters. |
Registered Rep. February 1, 2005 |
Blotter Banc One Is No. 1 -- in Fine Size... Fleecing the Flock... Morgan Gets a Slap... |
Wall Street & Technology May 22, 2008 Lance Braunstein |
Case Study: Morgan Stanley Taps BladeLogic to Simplify Complex Application Deployment Operations Manager solution allows Morgan Stanley's Global Wealth Management Group to increase change management capacity and improve execution quality in high change-velocity environment. |
Registered Rep. October 1, 2002 Rick Weinberg |
Morgan Stanley Boosts Pay for Fee Business Morgan Stanley unveiled a new compensation plan for brokers that rewards fee-based business and penalizes transactional business. |
The Motley Fool December 20, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson |
Will Morgan Stanley Come Back? Investors who thought that the return of John Mack to Morgan Stanley would mean instant and glorious change might be feeling a bit disappointed about now. |
Investment Advisor July 2006 |
B/d Briefing: News & Products The Securities and Exchange Commission announced on May 31 the institution of proceedings against 15 broker/dealer firms... In the past year nearly 200 advisors have been added to the H&R Block Financial Advisors team... etc. |
The Motley Fool June 19, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Morgan Stanley Stumbles In light of Morgan Stanley's dismal earnings release, let's get one thing straight: It could have been much, much worse. |
The Motley Fool June 20, 2007 Ryan Fuhrmann |
Morgan Stanley Still Shining The brokerage house is riding high, with no signs of a slowdown. In less than two years, John Mack has turned Morgan from a chronic underperformer to the toast of Wall Street. |
Wall Street & Technology June 4, 2004 |
Key Trends in U.S. Securities Key IT trends within the U.S. securities industry currently revolve around the broad concepts of cost reduction, operational efficiency, and compliance and risk management. |
CIO May 15, 2003 Lafe Low |
Integration the Right Way, the Wrong Way Harvard's Marco Iansiti, who has studied the technology strategies of nearly 100 companies, says: Keep your integration expertise in-house. |
The Motley Fool December 1, 2004 Tim Beyers |
Carnival of the Ignorant The NYSE faces down brokers who didn't provide basic information to thousands of IPO investors. But refunds? Sorry, folks, but when you invest, you take a risk. |
Registered Rep. October 13, 2008 |
Morgan Stanley Sweetens Deal For Mitsubishi, Stock Soars That development, combined with news the U.S. Fed plans to follow England's lead and invest directly in its failing banks, sent financial services stocks shooting higher in trading Monday. |
Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 Brett Lancaster |
Wringing the Risk Out of Corporate Actions The vice president of Global Corporate Actions, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) asserts that the global financial services industry recognizes the need to bring greater harmony and reduced risk to corporate actions processing, which will also advance the goal of straight-through processing. |
Registered Rep. June 24, 2004 John Churchill |
Morgan Stanley Sued by New Hampshire Regulators New Hampshire securities regulators are suing Morgan Stanley, charging that in 2002 the firm encouraged its brokers to sell proprietary mutual funds by using sales contests, a violation of NASD rules. |
CRM June 7, 2013 Peter Chase |
Five Steps to Giving Marketers Data Ownership Integration is key. Collecting data is the easy part; the real challenge comes from connecting the different types of data across multiple channels. |
Registered Rep. September 1, 2004 David A. Gaffen |
Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow You won't have to steal client addresses and phone numbers any more when switching firms --- that is, if you work for Merrill Lynch, Smith Barney or UBS Securities. |
Wall Street & Technology September 21, 2004 Robert Hegarty |
Measuring Up The best CIOs of today and tomorrow will innovate and help their firms grow again, this time through more efficient (and now, cost-effective) deployment of technology. |
Registered Rep. January 1, 2005 Will Leitch |
Not in New York, New York Though no other major financial firm specifically requires all arbitrations to be subject to New York law, experts say most cases are handled under those rules anyway. |
Registered Rep. November 1, 2006 |
Comings & Goings Wachovia Securities promoted Mary Mack to president of its Investment Services Group... Securities America hired Gregg Johnson to head its recruiting efforts... etc. |
Registered Rep. January 1, 2006 Kristen French |
Help Wanted Securities Industry employment topped the 800,000 mark in November for the first time since February 2002. |