IT Systems, Infrastructure and Applications -- 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-Finance Lab.

This Handbook contains surveys of state-of-the-art concepts, systems, applications, best practices as well as contemporary research in the intersection between IT and finance. Included are recent trends and challenges, IT systems and architectures in finance, essential developments and case studies on management information systems, service oriented architecture modelling, IT architectures for securities trading, IT-systems in banking, process-oriented systems in corporate treasuries, grid computing and networking. The IT applications in banking, trading and insurance cover risk management and controlling, financial portals, electronic payment and others. In addition, also finance-related IT applications in non-financial companies are considered. The concept-oriented part of the book focuses on IT methods in finance like financial models and modelling financial data, planning and processes, security, algorithms and complexity.