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Michael Nuciforo - Keatan - London | 30/09/2012 | 4083 views | 1 comment

Reactive Decisiveness

We always strive to be first. For some people it becomes an obsession. It becomes their reason for living. Their reason for cheating... nobody remembers second they reason. This seems to be the way in most endeavours - except for banking. The industry that invented the ‘fast follower’ concept has started to struggle. The mentality... Tags: Online banking, Mobile & onlineGroup: Innovation in Financial Services

Karthikeyan Venkataraman - Infosys Limited - Johannesburg | 29/09/2012 | 2231 views

The banker and her iPad

Recently I was talking to the department head of a leading bank. She told me that her salespeople were using iPads. "Great, What do they use them for?", I asked her and she said "To login remotely to our CRM system". Wow, I thought, what could be a more inefficient way of leveraging mobility. Casting away all the inherent user friendli... Tags: Mobile & online, Post-trade & opsGroup: Innovation in Financial Services

Paul Gow - CJC IT Ltd - London | 28/09/2012 | 1984 views

Back to the future

It occurred to me the other day that in a world where everything seems to come in cycles, market data appears to be no different. If you go back as far as I do in this business and I’m guessing that you do because everyone in this industry seems to have been in it forever (…but that’s for another blog) then you will remember the... Tags: Dealing roomsGroup: Innovation in Financial Services

Steve Grob - Fidessa - London | 28/09/2012 | 2370 views

Is the time up for HFT?

Few can have missed the fact that Germany is set to go it alone on curbing HFT, although it looks like the rest of Europe won’t be too far behind. The proposed European legislation will insist upon a minimum resting time for orders before they can be amended or cancelled. This has sparked a fair amount of discussion here at Fidessa Towers on... Tags: Dealing rooms, Trade execution

Antti Larvala - CAL360 Degrees - Brussels | 27/09/2012 | 2904 views | 1 comment

Future of cash is electronic cash

Cash don't disappear- that is a fact. Don't deny it. Or is it possible to replace cash with alternative low cost solution. For laymans terms, cash is low cost payment method. But as everyone who knows thing or two behind cash, it is expensive, hard to control and unreliable payment method- but so hard to replace. Over the centuries, cash paymen... Tags: Payments, Retail bankingGroup: Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030