A graduate of Fairfield Country Day School, the Hotchkiss School and St. Lawrence University, he was most recently self-employed as a financial computer consultant.
More recently, in his thriller The Fear Index, Robert Harris created a financial computer model, VIXAL, which "had no purpose other than the self-interested pursuit of survival through the accumulation of money.
MiFID is the most far-reaching directive yet and technology consultants are licking their chops at the prospect of helping clients comply with rules requiring ever more financial computer systems to talk with each other across borders, markets, asset classes and so on.Exacerbating the costs of compliance are the enduring uncertainties about the details.
That compares with a 12% growth rate at rival EDS and 21% at Computer Sciences Corp. ACS was founded as a financial computer-services provider in 1988.
Financial, computer hardware and networking stocks took the lead, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up 136.46 to 9016.14 and the S&P 500 advanced 26.32 to 1176.46.
In the 80s, Bloomberg made billions building a financial computer that changed the way securities data was stored.
Major Programme 5.2 covers the financial, computer and personnel services provided by the Administration and Finance Department (AF), including the development of corporate accounting and administrative systems, and applicable provisions in Regional and Sub-regional Offices.
"Most account information is stolen from home PC's," not from financial service computers, he said.
The F.B.I.'s work now encompasses complex financial abuses, computer crime and terrorism.
This includes transport, travel, communications, financial services, computer and information services, royalties and licence fees, and professional services.
