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.