David Lapp

No industry has done more to streamline and improve core business processes with IT than the financial markets industry. Its business transactions have been conducted electronically for decades. Electronic communication is ingrained in the industry's institutions. In fact, new requirements for technology have often emerged first in the financial markets industry. Yet with the volatility and risk inherent in their business, as well as increasing volume, globalization, and regulation, capital markets companies continue to look to IT to help them improve productivity and gain new revenue. They do so because they need to attain more real-time insight for trading, to sell complex products with downsized sales staff to an ever-expanding range of customers, and to coordinate high-value routine transactions across multiple market infrastructures. As a result, financial mark... (more)