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Sibos Day 2: RMA?

Lunchtime is always a good time to get a sense of how attendees are reacting to the Sibos content. Interesting conversations about RMA, with a feeling that the aim is to stop firms communicating with...

02 Oct 2007
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Customer Intimacy

I hope you all had a great day yesterday. I thought today I should muse a little around one of the themes from yesterday's opening plenary. I am sure that like me, many of you noticed the more relaxe...

02 Oct 2007
Finextra@Sibos
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Sibos 2007 - Monday - Regeneration

In case you don’t know, the Boston Conference and Exhibition Center is located in an urban regeneration area in Boston docks within sight of the central business district. The one topic which seems t...

02 Oct 2007
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Sibos 2007 - Sunday - Great expectations

As you probably can’t have escaped being told, Sibos is in Boston in the 3-year old Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. This year the conference has the potential of robust dialogue between betwe...

02 Oct 2007
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Sibos Day 1

As always at Sibos, you meet those people that either you haven’t had chance to make appointments with but could have, and those people you know from the other side of the world and couldn’t have met ...

02 Oct 2007
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Boston-SIBOS: The art of communication

Hi everyone, It's great to be back again for another year. I am sure most of you, like me, have spent the last few weeks in frantic preparation - arranging meetings, preparing presentations, briefing...

01 Oct 2007
Finextra@Sibos
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Sibos: the rollercoaster sets off!

Over here in Boston it’s blue skies and sunshine as Sibos gets ready to kick off. But it’s not the only event in town. This weekend has also been the quarterly meeting of ISITC (International Securi...

30 Sep 2007
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Newport: all the jazz on market data

Just spent three days in Newport, Rhode Island, at FISD’s World Financial Information Conference - WFIC. This is the largest financial market data event in the world. One of the problems that many o...

30 Sep 2007
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Contactless mugging

So if I've read this Finextra item correctly - you just wave the thing over a reader with no questions asked. Is this a mugger's dream? How many low value transactions could someone run up before the ...

28 Sep 2007
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Growing an exchange

In Europe, we’re seeing exchange consolidation, mergers and acquisitions. One of the interesting situations is Boerse Berlin buying into Equiduct, which itself is based on the Easdaq exchange that wa...

26 Sep 2007
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Those embarrassing little - and not so little - leaks

Interestingly, this was exactly the topic of conversation at a couple of CIO / CTO level Information Security dinners that we have hosted in the city recently, and follows hot (OK, warm) on the heels ...

24 Sep 2007
Information Security
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Eros card - that's a top idea

There was some discussion in the office about why it was called Eros. When we twigged the reason and that you can't after all use it in Ann Summers it seemed less interesting. Still I imagine early a...

21 Sep 2007
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