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John Cant

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MPI Europe Ltd

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The hidden cost of delay

For most financial sector decision makers, the challenging market conditions of the past year or so - despite any recent positive portents that countries are exiting recession - have promoted a natural prudence or caution when it comes to initiating change or projects. It is tempting for them to delay an explicit project cost, or to introduce an a...

25 September 2009 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services

Quants plead not to be ruled out of risk management equation

Taking my daily dose of FT online, I was struck by the article entitled Count us in, maths experts tell regulator which, in summary, seems to boil down to the agreement by both Lord Turner and financial mathematicians (aka "quants") that maths is a very powerful tool if used properly by people who understand the business they are modell...

10 June 2009 /regulation /wholesale Banking Architecture

Brokers move to form industry standard CSA platform

The announcement overnight that Cogent Consulting LLC, leading developer of commission management systems for the securities industry, has signed a letter of intent for the sale of a majority of the company to a group of major global institutional broker-dealers, is the strongest signal yet that brokers have taken up the challenge to create an in...

20 May 2009 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services

Nurturing my Inner Maverick

Apparently travel broadens the mind, at least that’s why I am travelling to Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium with alliance partner Rob Woolley (SVP EMEA of Globant) to the Somesso “Creating Social Capital” event. For those of you who don’t know Globant, it is the leading Latin-American IT Services & Software Development group, and they have developed...

14 May 2009 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services

The innovation debate

In one of my recent Financial Sector bulletins, I initiated a discussion on whether innovation is a good strategy for current market conditions. The debate on our FS Think Tank LinkedIn group - a new and growing discussion group set up with a number of alliance partners - was particularly active and practical. For example, I was glad to read tha...

04 May 2009 /retail /wholesale Trends in Financial Services

Mine detecting bees

Whether it is certain bonuses in financial sector, or league tables and performance stars in the public sector, there have been numerous recent illustrations of the harm that poorly set business targets can cause. It seems deceptively easy in theory to use targets and rewards to drive desired behaviour. Take the mine detecting bees for example. No...

31 March 2009 /regulation /wholesale Trends in Financial Services

Regulation: learn how to walk again, before you try to run

There have been calls this month from the European Union for the creation of a pan-European regulatory body to help solve the current financial crisis and prevent future issues. This is a deceptively easy thing to call for in the current climate, but it neither makes it easy to implement, nor indeed is there much evidence that it would be any more...

06 March 2009 /regulation /wholesale Trends in Financial Services

Learning lessons from Murphy at 60

If Murphy’s Law didn’t already exist, they would have had to invent it to help explain what has happened to the financial sector over the past six months or so. Over the years there have been many proverbs or sayings predicting the inevitability of disasters. However, it fell to one Edward Aloysius Murphy Jr. around 1949, whilst working on a serie...

19 January 2009 /regulation /wholesale Banking Architecture

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