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.
Articles by Greg MacSweeney
posted in July 2010
7/30/2010
Goldman Sachs, embarrassed by the profanity that was used in the now infamous email that was brought to light by Sen. Carl Levin during a Congressional hearing, has moved to prohibit employees from swearing in emails. Goldman is deploying technology that will screen for "bad" words in emails and text messages.
7/30/2010
Top economics and financial officials met with Timothy Geithner today to discuss the future Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
7/27/2010
Cloud-based on-demand services may offer a way to reduce bloated infrastructure and data center spending.
7/27/2010
To handle the increasing compute demands of financial firms, a good portion of IT budgets in 2010 and beyond will be spent on upgrading older technologies to make today's data centers more energy-efficient and more powerful.
7/26/2010
Europe's banks largely passed tests designed to show how they'd fare if the region had a double-dip recession. But there's still questions being asked about the toughness of the tests.
7/26/2010
The Treasury is selling Citigroup shares and has hired Morgan Stanley to manage the shares for them -- and to help the brokerage out.
7/19/2010
Real-time news isn’t reliable enough to include in automated trading strategies, say industry executives.
7/19/2010
While faster chips and 10-gigabit Ethernet connections help, having the right developers and engineers is the key to winning the low-latency race.
7/15/2010
Technologists and operations professionals have long complained they are not getting a fair share of Wall Street's gold-encrusted pie. But a recent survey of Wall Street employees finds that their peers in other departments also think that tech/ops professionals are getting shorted in their paychecks.
7/14/2010
Even through a faltering economy, technology companies have performed consistently well.
7/14/2010
The Congressional Oversight Panel warns smaller U.S. banks with assets below $100 billion are less likely to be able to repay TARP money.
7/12/2010
A new book from Harvard professor Niall Ferguson titled "High Financier: The Life and Times of Siegmund Warburg" covers how financial risk taking has changed over the years.
7/8/2010
How will financial reform legislation impact the hedge fund industry? Paul Roth, who represents 50 of the top 100 hedge funds as a partner at Schulte, Roth & Zabel, discusses his views in thie MSNBC video clip.
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