106 Results from 2009, /wholesale
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
We missed this first time around, but it should definitely be on the Christmas shopping list for all self-respecting Finextra Community members. Crunch - the game for utter bankers is a devious card game that places you at the head of the boardroom as a CEO of a global bank juggling the conflicting demands of your ailing bank and your future retir...
30 October 2009 /retail /wholesale Whatever...
Retired Member
Last week saw the largest ever gathering of QIs, NQIs, Auditors, US Withholding Agents and solutions vendors since 2001 when the US withholding tax regulations - 1441 NRA came into force. 100 attendees discussed the impact of US tax regulations for two days. The US Joint Congressional Committee on Tax (JCT) indicated prior to the conference that ...
26 October 2009 /regulation /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
With the Caplin Xaqua application earlier in the week, and now this low-latency network supplied by Colt - word on the street is that the industry will be seeing a lot more IT-related projects emerging from Nomura. Independant developers and freelance programmers are a chatty bunch. Nomura got a sweet bargain when it acquired the European and Asia...
22 October 2009 /wholesale
What is Integrated Data Management?... At a seminar a week or so back, I was asked the somewhat academic question was "What is Integrated Data Management?". Certainly everyone seemed convinced that there would be less "Enterprise Data Management" (EDM) projects in future, given the expense, scope and scale of such projects. The...
22 October 2009 /regulation /wholesale Data Management 101
A heart-warming story currently doing the rounds in financial circles. A trader at Natixis Bleichroeder Capital Management was apparently so distraught at the unfolding boy-in-the-balloon saga that he called the Bloomberg help desk to vent his feelings. The exchange was first posted by Chris Rovzar of the daily Intel, who says the desk jockey in q...
22 October 2009 /wholesale Whatever...
Okay, I realize that unless you are a perpetual movie geek like me, you may not remember Sally Field's much maligned Academy Award acceptance speech ( I've happily included a clip so you can view it now). But it was the first thought that popped into my head as I read this article about First Direct. I think it's great that the bank is willing t...
14 October 2009 /payments /wholesale Transaction Banking
Rumours that Twitter is in advanced talks with Google and Microsoft about striking data mining deals has resurrected speculation about the use of the microblogging site as a high frequency trading tool. Citing sources familiar with the situation, Allthingsdgital blogger Kara Swisher says Silicon Valley's hottest start-up is deep in discussion abou...
09 October 2009 /wholesale Finance 2.0
As the dust settles on the credit crunch, it’s clear that banking has entered a new era. While it remains to be seen whether banks will heed the lessons learnt from the past two years in the long-term, there is no question that the crisis has led banks to re-think their payment strategies. Banks want to make the most of this stable source of inco...
07 October 2009 /payments /wholesale
Banks’ risk management capabilities are under the spotlight following the events of the past two years. The issue of liquidity used to sit firmly with the treasury department, but the advent of RTGS (real time gross settlement) has broadened its scope and the current scarcity and cost of liquidity means that this problem now affects the flows in ...
29 September 2009 /payments /wholesale
John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd
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
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