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Katherine Heires is a freelance journalist and editorial consultant who reports on innovation, business trends and emerging technologies and their impact on corporations, professional investors and individuals.

Her reporting has appeared of late in Risk Professional magazine, published by the Global Association of Risk Professionals or GARP, Sourcemedia publications – including Financial Planning, Information Management and Securities Technology Monitor -- and Venture Capital Journal, published by Thomson Reuters.

As a contributing editor and correspondent, she has covered a broad range of topics impacting the financial sector: algorithmic trading, behavioral finance, cloud computing, high frequency trading, portfolio and risk management, structured finance, tablet and iPad computing, new technologies for hedge funds and wealth advisors, new strategies for banks and investment firms, regulatory change and the latest wave of startups targeting financial firms.

Katherine’s reporting can also be found in the archives of Bloomberg BusinessWeek, CNNMoney.com, Harvard Business Review, Institutional Investor and Wall Street & Technology/Advanced Trading magazine.

Prior to her current assignments, Katherine spent a year as consulting editor at Deloitte Research, where she edited, wrote and contributed to corporate management and technology reports and developed and edited a publication for Deloitte professionals.

Over the past 17 years, Katherine’s work as a contributing editor and reporter has appeared in a wide array of news outlets, including CyberTimes (published by The New York Times), The Deal and Technology Review. Some of her earlier articles have appeared under the bylines Katherine Cavanaugh and Katherine Goncharoff.

Examples of her articles include:

“The Science of Culture: The financial crisis has cast a spotlight on the benefits of a strong, corporate culture and its relative, a robust, risk culture.” Risk Professional Magazine, Oct. 2011;

“Time to Feed the Beast: The Dodd-Frank Act & Its Call for New Systemic Risk Requirements for Financial Firms,” Risk Professional Magazine, June 2011;

“Gifts of Sight: New Approaches in Scenario Planning & Serious Gaming for Corporations,” Risk Professional Magazine, April 2011;

“Catalogue of Folly: Interview with credit crisis author Joe Nocera,” Risk Professional Magazine, Feb. 2011;

“Better Behavior: How Behavioral Finance Can Enhance Risk Management,” Risk Professional Magazine, Dec. 2010;

“Biggest Innovators on Wall Street in 2010,” Securities Technology Monitor, Dec. 2010;

“The iPad's Cool Factor,” Financial Planning, Sept. 2010;

“Rosenblatt Takes Stock Of Financial Technology,” Investment Dealers’ Digest;

“Bringing the Heat: How to Incubate High Frequency Traders,” Securities Technology Monitor;

“Budgeting for Latency: If I Shave a Microsecond, Will I See a 10XProfit?,” Information-Management;

“Code Green: Goldman Sachs & UBS Cases Heighten Need to Keep Valuable Digital Assets From Walking Out The Door. Millions in Trading Profits May Depend On It.,” Securities Technology Monitor;

“Real-Time Racing: Are Risk Managers Ready for Real-Time Risk?,” Risk Professional;

“Facebooks for Financial Services,” Securities Technology Monitor / Financial Planning;

“Algo Arms Race Has a Leader--for Now,” Securities Technology Monitor;;

“A Business Model VCs Love,” CNNMoney.com;

“LiquidityBook: IM Trading Tool From NY-Area Brokerage,” Securities Technology Monitor;

“GlobeOp, Administration Master, Looks Beyond Fund Basics,” Securities Technology Monitor;

“JP Morgan Turns to Web 2.0 for Basket Trading Tool,” Securities Technology Monitor;

“Algorithms and Clearing Wrapped Up in One,” Wall Street & Technology;

“What Works: Where Job Seekers Pay to Play,” CNNMoney.com;

“2006's Innovative Algorithms,” Advanced Trading;

“By the Dashboard Light,” Wall Street & Technology;

“Podcasting Meets the Elevator Pitch,” CNNMoney.com;

“Buy-side Traders Go Global,” Advanced Trading;

“Does Your Company Belong in the Blogosphere?,” HBS Working Knowledge newsletter;

“China Bound: More young companies are scaling the Great Wall,” BusinessWeek Online;

“Jim Rogers' Hedge Fund Tips,” RedHerring.com;

“Tracking RFID’s Next Wave to Gain Strategic Advantage,” A Deloitte Research Emerging Technologies Executive Brief, with Ajit Kambil;

“Where to Go Online for Expert Advice,” BusinessWeek Online;

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