Retired Member
I see that financiers have noticed that there's been a 12.4% increase in de-listings of foreign companies on US exchanges. The explanation appears to be either "a pent up demand to leave the US" or "the increasing unattractiveness of the US capital markets". Not only are these symptoms not causes, I'm not sure they're really ...
05 December 2007 /security /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional
Further to my jottings to on the subject of using mobile numbers as citizen IDs, I thought I would get more into details on the subject. Mobile phones can be the tipping point of reaching out the 'next billion' unbanked mass. Prima facie, I am sure we all agree that riding on an existing infrastructure is much better alternative than trying to st...
04 December 2007 /payments /regulation
What is it about politics and embarrassing metadata? UK readers will be familiar with the row about dodgy political donations that is currently surrounding the Labour party. It was perhaps only a matter of time before metadata gave someone's secrets away - as it has a habit of doing in political rows. Well, it happened this weekend - the Sunday...
03 December 2007 /security /regulation Information Security
Just the other day, I was reading a series of reports by Boston Consulting Report (BCG). Normally, such reports use statistics like a drunk using a lamp-post - for support than illumination. But these reports are an exception! The report on India particularly fascinated me. According to BCG, the next big opportunity for banks is the 'billion ' unb...
02 December 2007 /regulation
It's always seemed strange to me that people only get really interested in withholding tax when economic times start getting tough. The sub-prime mess which has led to a range of spin-off crises at banks (retail and wholesale) and brokers, seems to be raising this old penny again. I guess its not really surprising given human nature - when times...
26 November 2007 /regulation /wholesale
So we have seen some high profile casualties in the subprime triggered credit crunch from both the corporation and personnel perspective and I am sure we will see further cases in the coming weeks and months as more banks write off ever increasing amounts related to their mortgage business and as the true size of these write offs become clear as h...
22 November 2007 /regulation Trends in Financial Services
The latest government data loss story beggars belief. It does make you wonder what would happen if we were stupid enough to introduce an ID cards scheme. I'm putting my money where my mouth is at www.no2id.net. Why not join me? Entertaining to see the Daily Mail (never one to let the facts get in the way of a good story) are reporting the ENTIRE...
21 November 2007 /security /regulation
Given that much of my time spent in conversations around metadata leakage being someone else's fault / responsibility, it was fascinating to watch the Chancellor's performance in the House this afternoon. That smoking gun certainly has a lot of fingerprints on it. Mind you, today's news will certainly raise the profile of Information Leak Preventi...
20 November 2007 /security /regulation Information Security
After nearly a decade of weather derivatives trading, the exchange traded weather risk products started picking up in volumes and popularity, but still there are a lots of interesting points to observe in OTC trading volume, liquidity, trading infrastructure etc.. As per the WRMA’s 2007 industry survey total number of contracts traded worldwide f...
20 November 2007 /regulation MiFID
Alan Goodrich Regional Sales Manager at ERI
Sorry, this is not a blog discussing the new TV series, but it hopefully will hold your attention at least as long as the programme makers hope their latest show will. Much is being written and discussed about innovation in financial services with, it seems, organisations employing an increasing number of people with the remit to innovate. Any of y...
07 November 2007 /payments /regulation Trends in Financial Services
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