Handbook on Information Technology in Finance

IT Systems, Infragstructure and Applications in Finance: SOA in the Financial Industry - Technology Impact in Companies' Practice.- Information Systems and IT Architectures for Securities Trading.- Product Management Systems in Financial Services Software Architectures.- Management of Security Risks - A Controlling Model for Banking Companies.- Process-Oriented Systems in Corporate Treasuries: A Case Study from BMW Group.- Streamlining Foreign Exchange Management Operations with Corporate Financial Portals.- Capital Markets in the Gulf: International Access, Electronic Trading and Regulation.- Competition of Retail Trading Venues - Online-brokerage and Security Markets in Germany.- Strategies for a Customer-Oriented Consulting Approach.- A Reference Model for Personal Financial Planning.- Internet Payments in Germany.- Grid Computing for Commercial Enterprise Environments.- Operational Metrics and Technical Platform for Measuring Bank Process Performance.- Risk and IT in Insurances.- Resolving Conceptual Ambiguities in Technology Risk Management.- Extracting Financial Data from SEC Filings for US GAAP Accountants.- IT Methods in Finance: Networks in Finance.- Agent-based Simulation for Research in Economics.- The Heterogeneous Agents Approach to Financial Markets - Development and Milestones.- An Adaptive Model of Asset Price and Wealth Dynamics in a Market with Heterogeneous Trading Strategies.- Simulation Methods for Stochastic Differential Equations.- Foundations of Option Pricing.- Long-Range Dependence, Fractal Processes, and Intra-Daily Data.- Bayesian Applications to the Investment Management Process.- Post-modern Approaches for Portfolio Optimization.- Applications of Heuristics in Finance.- Kernel Methods in Finance.- Complexity of Exchange Markets.- Further Aspects and Future Trends: IT Security: New Requirements, Regulations and Approaches.- Legal Aspects of Internet Banking in Germany.- Challenges and Trends for Insurance Companies.- Added Value and Challenges of Industry Academic Research Partnerships - The Example of the E-Finanance Lab.