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There’s no gamekeeper like an ex-poacher, and no saint as devout as the sinner that repenteth. Once people change their minds about something, they tend to overdo it. The past year has seen a rush by previously sceptical tier 1 and tier 2 banks towards the promised land of the single-dealer platform. The goal is to provide an online offering that s...
03 November 2009 /wholesale
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
Micro-blogging site Twitter has begun rolling out its new list-building feature which enables users to curate themed lists of Twitter accounts. For example, you could create a list of celebrity accounts or choose to follow a narrower list of friends, co-workers or business contacts. We've been dabbling with the facility this afternoon and have cre...
30 October 2009 /retail /wholesale Finance 2.0
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...
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
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