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, and
service oriented architecture modeling. The book shows a broad range of
applications, e.g. in banking, insurance, trading and in non-financial
companies. The concept-oriented part of the book focuses on IT methods
in finance like financial models and modeling financial data, planning
and processes, security, algorithms and complexity. Essentially, all
aspects of IT in finance are covered.