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Finance 2.0

A community for discussing the application of Web 2.0 technologies to financial services.

Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

The 5 Stages of Social Media Grief for Bankers

This week I've met with some very interesting people and the subject of social media has been high on the agenda. Yesterday, I met with Tom Cannon, who is leading the charge on the Internet Banking initiative that is part of HSBC's "OneH" project - essentially their customer dashboard, single-view of the customer baseline technology. Ear...

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Paul Blank

Paul Blank e-Trading Solutions at TradAir

Research and Trading converge to make SDPs Stickier

In the past, perceived wisdom had been that bank trading platforms are for trading, whilst their research portals were for in-depth research – and never the twain shall meet. And whilst many banks pay lip service to integrating pre-trade research with execution within their trading platforms, few get round to actually doing it, and fewer still do

Paul Blank

Paul Blank e-Trading Solutions at TradAir

Compliance concerns delay banks introducing iPhone trading

While many banks talk of providing trading via the iPhone or other mobile devices to institutional clients, so far very few have done so. In the non-professional (retail) market, most spread betting firms and retail brokers already offer quite sophisticated mobile trading solutions. So, what’s stopping the banks from offering similar solutions to t...

Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

BANK 2.0: Mobile AdServing or Offer Management?

With the massive activity in the mobile Ad space arena at the moment, I’m amazed that there is so little focus on this by Bank marketing teams. It shows a level of ignorance that is staggering. There is some light at the end of the tunnel. This week Citi announced a new App-based mobile marketing platform, mainly built around the loyalty program

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Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

Social media empowers community banks

Community banks and credit unions have been around since the mid 1800s. Unlike most commercial banks which exist as publicly listed companies, credit unions and community banks are normally not-for-profit structures built to serve the community or groups where they are established. Generally these community banks or credit unions serve a specific ...

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Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

Facebook isn't dangerous - it's just different

Last week my esteemed colleague Robert Siciliano blogged about the Dangers of Facebook. This was in response to collective pressure on Facebook's privacy policies and the various media coverage related. In fact, the media pressure got so big that the 1st of June was supposed to be "Quit Facebook Day" as a protest over Facebook's privacy p...

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E-Invoicing Barriers

First day of EBA Day in Luxemburg, e-invoicing had been coined to the audiences. The event held on right after the release of EBA and Innopay’s E-invoicing 2010 European Market Guide report. The first release of the report was in 2008 and touched upon eight findings. One of the findings were about rapid growth of low base under-addressed market se...

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Paul Blank

Paul Blank e-Trading Solutions at TradAir

FX Liquidity Mirage

Interesting comment in FX week (sorry password required) about the problems with some banks FX feeds… “Banks must improve their foreign exchange pricing and trading infrastructure or risk losing order flow, according to currency traders….” My take on the article, is that some banks are still streaming the illusion of ‘robust’ deep liquidity to cli...

Paul Blank

Paul Blank e-Trading Solutions at TradAir

eFX volumes Single Dealer vs Multi Dealer Platforms

Research by Greenwich Associates (released in March 2010) states that around the world, multi-bank electronic trading platforms captured about 40% of overall FX trading volume in 2008-2009 and single-bank platforms captured another 15%. However, the two most authoritative sources of actual empirical data on FX activity, namely the Bank of England ...

Paul Blank

Paul Blank e-Trading Solutions at TradAir

Trading Platforms need to perform in all market conditions

WallStreet & Technology touches on an interesting topic relating to last weeks near 1,000 point fall in the Dow in late US trading. Data released by Gomez Inc (see chart at end of article), shows many on-line trading platforms struggled to cope with the resulting surge in investor activity, with some platforms showing a 10 fold increase in the...

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