This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Enterprise
Applications and Services in the Finance Industry FinanceCom 2012 held in Barcelona Spain
on June 10 2012. The workshop spans multiple disciplines including technical service
economic sociological and behavioral sciences. It reflects on technologically enabled
opportunities implications and changes due to the introduction of new business models or
regulations related to the financial services industry and the financial markets. The seven
papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The topics
covered are: news and text analysis algorithmic and high-frequency trading and the role and
impact of technology.
