EDGAR Headed for XBRL?The SEC is looking to leverage XBRL, (Mortgage loans)

EDGAR Headed for XBRL?The SEC is looking to leverage XBRL, (Mortgage loans)

Is EDGAR Headed for XBRL?
The SEC is looking to leverage XBRL, which promises easy access to financial data, but industrywide adoption remains a challenge.

Operations Newsflashes: BRE Bank Chooses Algo OpVantage, Convexity Capital Management to Manage Data With AC Plus, and more
Polish Broker BRE Bank Subscribes to Risk Case Studies Database, New Boston Firm Selects Asset Control, Norse Securities Using IMlogic, Piraino Takes Position at Xcitek

Investment Management Newsflashes: Macquarie Selects SimCorp, and more
Macquarie to Use SimCorp Dimension Accounting Platform, Parker Global Strategies Chooses Riskdata's FOFiX, and Two New Business Launches for the New Year

Powering Up the Grid
As calculations become more complex, financial services firms are turning to existing technology assets for more processing power.

IPlan Adds Monte Carlo Sims
Ibbotson Associates has added Monte Carlo simulations to version 2.0 of iPlan, its Web-based investment planning software.

CIO Challenge: IT Portfolio Management
Often, IT departments, overwhelmed by hundreds of initiatives, fail to meet project goals. But IT portfolio management, overseen by an IT project management office, can help complex IT organizations track and measure projects more accurately, thus increasing ROI.

Sad State of Data Security
Businesses and government agencies seem inept when it comes to protecting personal information as the list of mishaps keeps getting longer.

State of Data SecurityBusinesses and government agencies seem inept when (Mortgage loans)

State of Data SecurityBusinesses and government agencies seem inept when (Mortgage loans)

Sad State of Data Security
Businesses and government agencies seem inept when it comes to protecting personal information as the list of mishaps keeps getting longer.

Commerce Acquires Online Wealth Management Tool, Mellon Merges Business Units, and more
Commerce Purchases eMoney Advisor, Mellon Reorganizes Asset Management Units, and Van Lanschot Bankiers NV Chooses Siebel for CRM

Systems Glitch Mars Debut in Japan of World's Biggest Bank
Japanese Banking Behemoth Stumbles Over Internet Payment Orders

Center Mutual Selects Comtec
Center Mutual Insurance selects Comtec's Total Insurance System to replace its legacy insurance processing system.

IT Is in The Money
IT salaries are projected to increase an average of 3 percent in 2006, according to Robert Half Technology's 2006 Salary Guide.

Guardian Life's Callahan Looks Ahead
Dennis S. Callahan, Executive Vice President and CIO, Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America (New York; $39.5 billion in assets), and Insurance & Technology Reader Advisory Board member recently shared with his thoughts with I&T on the future of both Guardian and the insurance industry in general, from a technology point of view.

Eurex Seeks U.S. Exchange Partner, and more
Eurex Seeks U.S. Exchange Partner, RBC Financial Group Deploys Sophis RISQUE

Hackers Target Financial Services
The financial services industry is the No. 1 target of security probes by criminal hackers, according to a report on network attack trends on vertical industries from network security provider Counterpane Internet Services.

Towing the Lines
While most claims processing systems are oriented toward one line of business, IDP (Wyncote, Pa.) has released Claim-It, a new claims processing system that encompasses all property and casualty lines.

Big ThingIndustry experts point to data-related technologies as the next (Mortgage Loans online)

Big ThingIndustry experts point to data-related technologies as the next (Mortgage Loans online)

The Next Big Thing
Industry experts point to data-related technologies as the next 'killer' insurance apps during last month's ISOTech session.

No Place Like Home
To streamline work processes and improve ease of doing business, Hartford-based The Hartford redesigned its Electronic Business Center (EBC) agent portal home page.

Steering Compliance
To help insurers manage the entire compliance process, Arlington, Va.-based e-know launched Compliance Cockpit, a Web-based solution that works in conjunction with an e-mail client and browser to deploy policies, collect employee responses, track progress in real time and meet compliance objectives.

Rethinking Risk Management
Many firms have allocated a disproportionate amount of resources to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance

More IT Security Pros Filling Executive Roles
IT security professionals are being invited into corporate board rooms around the globe, wielding more influence and finding increased opportunities.

Eight Banks Join SAP In Development of Service-Oriented Architecture
Anti-money laundering among one of the intended early uses of the network.

Issues Bonds for Low-Rate Mortgage Loans for the First Time (Mortgage loans)

Issues Bonds for Low-Rate Mortgage Loans for the First Time (Mortgage loans)

HFA Issues Bonds for Low-Rate Mortgage Loans for the First Time in
PR Newswire (press release), NY - Dec 12, 2005 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The DC Housing Finance Agency's (HFA) low-rate mortgage loans help bring down the cost of financing a home to a level attainable to many low

Gov't outlines terms for mortgage loans
AzerNews, Azerbaijan - Dec 8, 2005 The government is engaged in final preparations to outline ways advantageous mortgage loans will be allocated to young families in Azerbaijan starting next year

Freddie Mac to sell reference REMIC Jan. 16 week
Reuters - 10 hours ago 16. The securities are guaranteed by mortgage loans and securities in its retained investment portfolio. The deal will be reference REMIC R-004.

Tougher standards urged on nontraditional mortgage loans
Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX - Dec 21, 2005 WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators proposed tougher standards on non-traditional mortgage loans, saying that expanded use of new interest-only and adjustable

Fitch Upgrades 12 & Affirms 4 Classes from 5 Fannie Mae
Business Wire (press release), CA - 5 hours ago The mortgage pool consists of 15- to 30-year fixed-rate mortgage loans secured by one- to four-family residential properties located primarily in California.

Home loans catch up (Home Loans) to consumers AZ Central.com, AZ - Dec 20,

Home loans catch up (Home Loans) to consumers AZ Central.com, AZ - Dec 20,

Home loans catch up to consumers
AZ Central.com, AZ - Dec 20, 2005 June 2004, the Federal Reserve has raised short-term interest rates 13 times, driving the prime rate typically used for adjustable home-equity loans from 4.25

Don't touch home loans, Cullen told
TVNZ, New Zealand - Dec 4, 2005 Business New Zealand has told Finance Minister Michael Cullen not to restrict home loans as a way to dampen the housing boom. The

Now, cash-back in home loans, too
Daily News & Analysis, India - Dec 22, 2005 companies, has percolated to the home loan market, too. Citibank now offers 5% cash back to borrowers on home loans above Rs 20 lakhs.

Home loans get a cover
Business Standard, India - Dec 19, 2005 Banks like State Bank of India and Bank of India offer home loans, which takes care of uncertainties such as death of the primary borrower.

People of color pay millions more monthly for home loans
San Francisco Bay View, CA - Dec 22, 2005 released a new report Thursday finding that people of color, communities of color and rural towns are more likely to receive higher-cost home loans and that

ICICI Bank, HDFC home loans unsecured: M�rashtra tells RBI
Economic Times, India - Dec 7, 2005 MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government has informed Reserve Bank of India that housing loans advanced by the top two home loan providers � HDFC and ICICI Bank

Yes Home Loans extends Bulldogs sponsorship
World of Rugby League, Australia - Dec 21, 2005 Malcolm Noad, CEO Mitsubishi Electric Bulldogs, announced today that Yes Home Loans had upgraded its sponsorship of the Bulldogs.

Mortgage broker hopes to add home loans to Texas job benefits
San Antonio Express (subscription), TX - Dec 30, 2005 It has grown from 25 to 52 employees, providing loans to home buyers, Bryce said. "There are 90 branches in 38 states," Bryce said. "We're the largest branch.".

New approved home loans down 9.4%
News.gov.hk, Hong Kong - Dec 28, 2005 New residential loans authorised institutions approved dropped 9.4% to $8.7 billion in November, the Monetary Authority says. New

Expect stricter rules on home loans
Newsday, NY - Dec 9, 2005 C. Dugan hinted strongly that banks and their mortgage subsidiaries can expect significantly toughened rules for 2006 governing "payment-option" home loans.