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In addition to the US squatter the European Squatters are hard at work. A number of permutations of the potential LloydsTSB / HBOS merger have also been snapped up. However there are a few combinations that are still available if you hurry.
17 September 2008 /wholesale
Nick Hastings
There's a first time for everything and an early morning run at Sibos certainly was a first for me. Thanks to the good people at EBA Clearing and our excellent local guides from RZB a couple of the Finextra team took part in the first EBA Clearing Sibos fun run. Setting a fairly competitive pace over 8km in a field of 25 of Sibos' finest atheletes...
17 September 2008 /payments /wholesale Finextra@Sibos
FXMarketSpace was born out of the general belief, current a few years ago, that markets such as FX would "evolve" towards the exchange-based model of equities, and that this somehow represented the pinnacle of trading organization. Instead, almost the exact opposite has happened. The rapid growth in reach, complexity and sophistication of...
16 September 2008 /wholesale
In a lively conference session on the opening morning of Sibos 2008, Till Guldimann, vice chairman of SunGard, told delegates that the increasing use of Web 2.0 technology was "a wake up call for Swift". Guldimann put forward a proposal that would see the interbank network use Web 2.0 technologies to fight off the challenge posed by outf...
15 September 2008 /retail /wholesale Finextra@Sibos
Before Sibos is over? So, another year older and so too another Sibos, this my third. Although still a relative novice, I have pondered in the past just how much distant a Sibos delegate without a stand to call home, such as myself, would cover during the event. In the run up to this year's Sibos I thought it might actually be interesting to do a ...
14 September 2008 /payments /wholesale Finextra@Sibos
...but SWIFT may be part of the solution. It's fair to say that the SEPA Credit Transfer go-live in January this year has been something of a non-event. SCTs have not taken off and volumes remain low. The main problem, in my view, is that corporates have no incentive or business case to move from their existing payment instruments to the new sys...
12 September 2008 /payments /wholesale
The publishing of an old article about a 2002 bankruptcy-court filing by United Airlines (UAL) on Google news on Monday has highlighted the downside of using automated and algorithmic trading applications to execute orders. It still remains unclear how the six-year old report of UAL's 2002 bankruptcy-court filing appeared on the ‘most viewed' secti...
12 September 2008 /wholesale
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
In protest at this 21st century corporate mania for re-branding I suggest we go back to the original source material (as legend has it) and give Swift a distinctively groovy, retro feel.
11 September 2008 /payments /wholesale Finextra@Sibos
Payments professionals jetting off to the Sibos international banking show in Austria next week can offset some of their planet-warming carbon emmissions by taking part in a simple online survey on Finextra - and get a chance to win a top-of-the-range mountain bike to boot. The green e-invoicing quiz is part of Finextra's SibosOnline Green Zone ...
10 September 2008 /payments /wholesale Finextra@Sibos
So good, it’s a waste of time: why banks and corporates need a common language If a colleague were to appraise your work with the words “this is so great, it’s a waste of time”, you might be offended or at least mystified. In Hebrew this expression is a compliment, but it doesn’t work in translation to business English. Learning the quirks of the
08 September 2008 /sibos /wholesale Financial Supply Chain
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