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John Cant - MPI Europe Ltd - London | 10/11/2010 | 2458 views | 1 comment

To Tweet or Not to Tweet?

Twitter has been referred to as the Marmite of social media. You either love it or you hate it. I must admit that despite being a regular tweeter, I have been having mixed feelings about this channel over the months. Some days I think it is great, when I find out something, or connect to someone that I could not have done through traditional mea Tags: Online banking, Retail bankingGroup: Innovation in Financial Services

John Cant - MPI Europe Ltd - London | 04/11/2010 | 4462 views

Does Cloud reduce operational risk and complexity

It is that tradeshow time of year when specific communities disappear out of the office to meet up with other people to do the physical rather than virtual/social networking. This last week it was SIBOS, the annual event for payments and transaction banking facilitated and organised by SWIFT. This year the SIBOS camp set up its stall in Amsterda Tags: Risk & regulation, Post-trade & opsGroup: Finance 2.0

John Cant - MPI Europe Ltd - London | 06/10/2010 | 2459 views | 1 comment

Do fines change the behaviour of financial firms?

Over recent months we have seen the FSA in the UK, as well as regulators in other geographies, hit the record books with larger and more numerous fines for misconduct – e.g. for poor reporting, or handling of customer data. These fines are supposed to be a deterrent and to change the behavior of market participants. However, the increased s... Tags: Retail banking, Wholesale bankingGroup: Innovation in Financial Services

John Cant - MPI Europe Ltd - London | 01/09/2010 | 3347 views | 2 comments

What sport tells us about financial regulation?

My 16 year old sports mad son read a book by Ed Smith, an Anglo Welsh county cricketer, over the summer entitled ‘What Sport Tells Us About Life’, and was mightily impressed. The book’s brilliance – he tells me - stems from the recognition that sport is life in miniature, and that if you analyse sport you find a mine of i Tags: Risk & regulation, Wholesale bankingGroup: Innovation in Financial Services

John Cant - MPI Europe Ltd - London | 21/06/2010 | 3630 views

The Writing is Not on the Wall, digital signage in finance

I have a bit of a soft spot for technology. So I was interested to find out more recently about some of the smart technology that is behind the eye catching video advertising screens that are popping up around train stations and our department stores. Under the catchy umbrella term of digital signage, these screens are becoming increasingly sophi... Tags: Online banking, Retail bankingGroup: Innovation in Financial Services