Profile of Greg MacSweeney

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Greg MacSweeney is editorial director of InformationWeek Financial Services, whose brands include Wall Street & Technology, Bank Systems & Technology, Advanced Trading, and Insurance & Technology.

TGIF: The Poetic Beauty of Palin's Tweets

7/31/2009
Sarah Palin's Twitter tweets can be poetic, but only when read by The Captain, William Shatner. The Tonight Show's Conan O'Brien brings in Shatner to read Palin's tweets verbatim. The result is a strange free verse that Shatner takes to a new level.

Savvis Expands NYC-Area Colocation Facility for Proximity Hosting

7/30/2009
Hosting provider adds 105,00 square feet to respond to growing demand for proximity hosting and internet infrastructure services, along with low latency connectivity to major financial exchanges.

ISITC Finalized New OTC Derivatives Market Practice

7/28/2009
New standards to improve automated communications between investment managers and third parties.

The End Of Wall Street: Why It Happened

7/24/2009
Chapter two of this WSJ series takes a look at what was going through the minds of CEOs, corporate boards, fund managers and mortgage lenders as they created hard-to-understand derivatives Warren Buffett once called "weapons of financial mass destruction."

Iron Fist With Brass Knuckles Ruled Lehman Brothers

7/23/2009
Lawrence G. McDonald, the author of "A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers," speaks to WSJ's Dennis Berman about what went wrong at the top of the firm.

Are Speculators Driving Up Oil Prices?

7/9/2009
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) certainly suspects that oil speculators are behind the wild swings in oil prices.

Spending Increase on the Horizon as the End Nears

7/8/2009
Technology, research, and other expenses that were delayed during the worst of the crisis can only be put off so long, so as the economy makes gradual improvements, so should spending figures.

Is Wall Street's Day of Reckoning Still to Come?

7/2/2009
Although the banks have been scared and many have been shaken to their foundations, Michael Lewis contends that there may be more shocks to come.