Consumer information, employee records, proprietary and trade secret information, and intellectual property are all available for the taking if infrastructures are not properly protected and contingency plans developed should a breach occur.
Sergey Aleynikov is having his day in a Manhattan federal court to face charges of stealing trade secrets (namely proprietary computer trading code) from Goldman Sachs.
Seth Setrakian, co-head of U.S. equities at proprietary trading firm First New York Securities, says however you trade Apple it is critical to stay disciplined.
ISE's system eliminates the fees that a market-maker would charge and doesn't place size limits on trade blocks, making it appealing to the growing number of hedge funds and proprietary trading desks that use computer algorithms to send orders through an exchange.
Unlike other market data vendors in the fixed income market who aggregate prices supplied by large dealers, Benchmark Solution uses proprietary technology to analyze millions of market inputs and generate prices which are updated every 10 seconds to provide pre-trade pricing intelligence.