Since mobile phone recording hits operations and policy, Compliant suggests that financial services firms create a project team with communication, compliance, human resources, and legal along with front office and back office operations people.

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Yes, the industry moves in microseconds in the front office, but the back office takes a little longer and group efforts take longer still.

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They could be more focused on the front office trading and risk systems or just reluctant to integrate a variety of back office systems that have been acquired through mergers and acquisitions.

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Take hope, my humanities-oriented friends, software is finally getting good enough to shift engineers to the back-office and unleash humanities-centric creative thinking at the front office, which will be transformative.

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He yanked 5, 000 Transmedia processing machines out of restaurants and combined Dining's classier front-end product with Transmedia's superior back-office system that credited savings on monthly charge-card accounts.

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Rotating quarterbacks and a November injury to star running back Frank Gore derailed that possibility in a big way, and the Niners front office seems to be all right with that.

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Demonstrating his technique, he sat back in his office chair, closed his eyes, and clasped his hands in front of him.

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When you see it in this light, the practice can gain more urgency and IT can start taking its place not as a back office infrastructure but as a way to produce front office victories.

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