4260 Results from /regulation
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
"The big lesson of the subprime crisis: that it's a mistake to lend money to poor people." "Rich people know how to invest extra money. Poor people just squander it on necessities. That's why capitalism works so well: it keeps money out of the hands of people who don't know how to use it and directs it to people who know how to make ...
12 September 2007 /regulation /wholesale Whatever...
Retired Member
Hedge funds and Wall Street firms are increasingly turning to meterologists to predict the impact that weather conditions willl have on stocks. But rather than using public meteorologists offices banks are employing their own weather specialists in house. Investment banks and hedge funds have traditionally employed mathematicians, physicists, comp...
08 August 2007 /regulation
Rich Marin, the embattled head of Bear Stearns asset management arm, was forced to step aside Friday in the wake of the near-collapse of two hedge funds associated with his division. He remains with the firm in an advisory capacity. Marin’s fate was finally sealed after the New York Times took pot shots at him for taking time off to go to the movie...
02 July 2007 /regulation /wholesale
See also - Blogging can hurt your employability 1 I was sitting in the waiting room at the Doctors this morning reading an old copy of Cosmopolitan; well I'd never buy a copy - far too raunchy for me! I noticed they now run a section on careers and Corrine Dauncey a careers expert with www.tiptopjob.com gave some good advice on answering the quest...
07 June 2007 /security /regulation Data Protection Act Issues
On the BBC World Service yesterday, and today on Silicon.com there comes a new threat to our employment chances - the Blog and other social sites. Apparently HR teams are being encouraged to use the Internet to research applicants for jobs and apparently some of the results are quite interesting as more and more companies use the web to store data....
29 March 2007 /security /regulation Data Protection Act Issues
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
Finextra received some interesting feedback from a reader today about this story, which covered NAB considering further Indian outsourcing. Our reader pointed out that with Maoist insurgents having slaughtered 40 Indian policemen this week, moving operations there now requires a hard second look. “Forget the weather issues, training, infrastruct...
16 March 2007 /regulation Trends in Financial Services
As you probably know, in a departure from previous years, Daylight Saving Time kicks in this weekend in the States following the Energy Policy Act of 2005. While this change isn't quite on the scale of the millenium bug, it does pose problems for IT folk. Fortunately the Windows sysadmins have been spared the monthly Microsoft patch cycle so that'...
09 March 2007 /security /regulation
John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd
At MPIE we recently provided input to a whitepaper from NetApp - a leading unified storage solutions supplier - on compliance trends and how to reduce the risk and costs of their impact. I will leave you to judge the specific merits of the NetApp solution, but the general principles are clear. By understanding and designing for the wider complianc...
27 February 2007 /regulation /wholesale MiFID
It’s been a long time coming, but Joe Public, and the companies that serve him, are finally wising up to the risks and challenges posed by global warming. This week saw the publication of no less than three separate reports - by Lehman Brothers, UBS and the Financial Services Authority - highlighting the perils posed by human-induced climate chang...
02 February 2007 /regulation /wholesale
Nick Hastings
I ‘ve been to Le Pont de la Tour on a number of occasions and it gets better every time. It’s well worth popping over Tower Bridge and enjoying the views of the City from the restaurant and in summer it offers delightful alfresco dining. The wine list is superb especially if you are a fan of French wines and the French cuisine is well worthy of it...
26 January 2007 /regulation After hours
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