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Despite the impact of the credit crunch and the uncertain economic outlook, there is still demand for IT professionals in the financial services sector, according to specialist online recruitment firm IT Jobs in the City. There has been a "steady demand" for tech staff within commodities, with a 50% increase in positions advertised since ...
04 June 2008 /retail /wholesale
The size of your pay packet doesn't guarantee happiness and fulfilment at work, according to a survey of 1000 workers across 20 professions which found bankers and financial services workers to be the most dissatisfied and unhappy in their jobs. Bankers came joint bottom - 17th - in the City & Guilds Happiness Index, along with builders, IT sp...
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York yesterday published a paper that describes ten major long-range trends in the settlement of large-value payments worldwide. The trends are driven by technological innovation, structural changes in banking, and the evolution of central bank policies. The authors observe that banks are increasingly making large-...
04 June 2008 /payments /wholesale Finextra@Sibos
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
The Creditex acquisition looks like third-time lucky for ICE, which has been keen to follow the same horizontal growth strategy being successfully pursued by other exchange groups over the past few years. Vertically, it has already this month received permission to expand into European clearing, with the FSA approving the operations of ICE Clear Eu...
03 June 2008 /wholesale Private Equity Investing in Financial Technology
Turquoise chief executive Eli Lederman told delegates at the Mondo Visione Exchange Forum that the bank-backed equities trading facility will begin offering trading on 300 stocks across 14 markets on 5th September. According to a Financial Times report, Lederman said Turquoise would begin offering a limited service for its members across Europe in...
03 June 2008 /wholesale
A new study has found that the quality and type of biscuit presented in a meeting can make or break a deal. A survey of over 1000 UK business professionals conducted by Holiday Inn found that the choice of biscuit supplied with refreshments provides "an integral role in influencing company directors, entrepreneurs and budget holders in boardr...
03 June 2008 /retail /wholesale
John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd
So why this cryptic title? Well, if, like me, you have picked up a newspaper one evening over recent weeks and flicked through past the natural disasters, credit crunch and housing crises to try to find some lighter material, you may have ended up on the “puzzles” page. The typical page will have a selection of brain teasers including the traditio...
31 May 2008 /wholesale Trends in Financial Services
Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research
Last week I questioned if SWIFT were in danger of contradicting their position of only supporting a single standard by operating both ISO20022 and ISO15022 at the same time. This question certainly brought about plenty of interest and also some important clarification comments posted by the SWIFT Community. I therefore urge all those interested in ...
21 May 2008 /wholesale Data Management 101
Financial Insights has issued a briefing note on the social networking phenomenon and the opportunities and threats posed to financial institutions. The study seeks to provide a framework that defines social networking for the financial services industry, as well as provide guidance to fintech software houses and infrastructure vendors and invest...
12 May 2008 /retail /wholesale Finance 2.0
Nick Hastings Commercial Director at Finextra
I was sent an interesting email recently from the Carbon Neutral Company, who are one of our partners for our Finexpo - Green City event. They were letting me know that on 5 June, it's World Environment Day, which also happens to be on the same day as our new Outsouricng event, so a grand day indeed! The Carbon Neutral Company want everyone to...
07 May 2008 /wholesale Going green
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