Financial Tracking Technologies, a firm based in Connecticut, goes a step further, making software that can go through calendar apps and travel-expense claims to determine who has come into contact with certain outside investors.
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Oracle has two versions of financial-tracking software, three sets of code for customer data and dozens of niche products.
Mark Hulbert, well-known for his performance-tracking newsletter The Hulbert Financial Digest, has been tracking it since 2002, and has reported of it more than doubling the performance of buy and hold over the long-term while taking only 61% of market risk.
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Several financial firms climbed, tracking solid gains for European lenders on Thursday.
What often gets lost in the daily tracking of the financial markets, however, is perspective.
Mark Hulbert, of Hulbert Financial fame, has been tracking various versions of seasonal timing strategies since mid-2002.
For instance, Mark Hulbert of Hulbert Financial Digest fame has been tracking investment newsletter performance for more than 30 years.
Duffield and Bhusri believe that since most budgets are devoted largely to paying employees, Workday's people-tracking software will do financial tasks even if customers don't swap out old systems.
In recent months, the bank hired as its chief legal officer Stuart Levey from the U.S. Treasury, where he led the U.S. government's financial-intelligence unit focused on tracking terrorism finance and money laundering.
To get a clearer snapshot, Chief Financial Officer John Standley , 38, started tracking daily cash receipts and disbursements.
Workday sells software to manage employee data, time tracking, procurement, expense management and financial accounting.
But regulators already face an immense task tracking the huge number of websites touting for financial business.
The financial crisis trumped seasonal market forces from October 2007 through August 2009, but stocks have been tracking historical patterns pretty closely since the fall of 2009, Mr. Hirsch says.
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