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My kids have the day off today, and they each invited a friend over to "hang out" (we dare not call it a "playdate" anymore). Eventually the question of lunch arose. The question was not so much what to have (it would be pizza), but where to get it. In all there are around 8 different pizza brands that deliver to my neighborho...
24 November 2010 /payments
Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
During the global financial crisis, governments spent billions to bail out banks in an effort to keep liquidity in the banking sector, largely so that lending could continue at a time when businesses needed as much help as they could get. However, in a financial crisis when the economy is in recession, it is counter-intuitive for a bank to lend mo...
18 November 2010 /regulation /retail
Paul Blank e-Trading Solutions at TradAir
The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) today released data covering outstanding positions in the global OTC Derivatives markets. Outstanding OTC positions are down some 4% to $583 trillion, although gross market value of existing OTC contracts rose by 15% to $25 trillion Notional amounts of Credit Default Swaps (CDS) outstanding declined f...
16 November 2010
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
First off, let me just say I am not slagging off the Innotribe sessions at this year's Sibos. I love innovation. Whether it's the next hot thing or the next hot air - innovative ideas and technology gives us a glimpse at where the future is going and how our economy is evolving. However... The myriad of blogs and Tweets that inevitably follow a s...
05 November 2010 /sibos /wholesale
John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd
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
04 November 2010 /regulation
It’s always a good sign, when your competition attempts to copy you. Bond Vision, the bank to client arm of the MTS bond trading platform, yesterday announced the launch of a suite of Single Dealer Pages for fixed income trading from six leading dealers – (similar to the single bank page concept that is already available on Bloomberg). In FX and F...
12 October 2010
Ashton Kutcher was famous for being the first celebrity to exceed 1 million followers on Twitter (now 5.8m), the famous Zuck has over 850,000 friends on his Facebook fan page, but this is not your average social media profile. The profile of your average Facebook user shows typically some 130 friends (source:Facebook), and the average Twitter user...
04 October 2010 /retail
The principles mentioned in my previous posts and the urgency bank management may feel regarding their implementation is very much tied to the laws and governance culture under which the financial institution operates. In certain jurisdictions recently launched regulations may insist on tighter controls such as detailed reporting in accordance wi
12 September 2010 /security /regulation
The perfect Ad is something advertisers dream about. Some "mAd" Men, go their entire career searching for it, others who are creatively gifted, come up with home runs, Gold Lions and accolades time and time again. Mad men have come to believe that if you can get the perfect mix of emotion, message, imagery, nuance and impact - that you c...
07 September 2010 /retail /wholesale
The Bank of International Settlements (BIS), has just released the latest 2010 Triennial Survey survey of global FX market volumes (the most authoritative survey of global FX market activity) Headline items from the survey are: (full report available here) Global FX turnover was 20% higher in April 2010 than in April 2007, with average daily tu...
01 September 2010
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