Welcome to ITEC 333 IT in Financial Services

Welcome everyone to the Kogod School of Business at American University ITEC 333- IT in Financial Services. Our class will be blogging about articles that we find in general business publications that are relevant to our course of study. This is a work in progress and please remember, be professional! You are publishing on the Web and visitors will find our blog.

The goal of this blog is to provide a collaborative forum for us to share stories and insights regarding the world of Financial Services and more particularly the role that information technology (IT) plays in shaping Financial Services.

All blogs are a work-in-progress and the information on this website is no different. Students will begin posting articles in September 2007. The news will speak directly to the impact of IT on banking, insurance, real estate, consumer finance, equities trading, and so on. Students are expected to pay close attention to what their peers have posted on the blog and to make comments on what they read.

This blog should allow all of us to expand our knowledge and understanding of this very dynamic field. By sharing our knowledge with one another through an open and interactive forum, we can learn much more both individually and as a class. Please ensure that whatever materials you post to the blog are appropriately cited. If you find an article on the web which you would like to bring to our attention, please post the exact URL with reference to where the article has come from.