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Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
HP has dedicated a fair amount of corporate Web space to promoting it's environmentally-friendly 'Green Giant' credentials. So I'm assuming this report from the Register is some kind of elaborate joke: "HP shatters excessive packaging world record". The accompanying picture story details how one amazed Reg reader took receipt of a very ...
21 July 2008 /retail /wholesale Going green
Hats off to Bloomberg (financial fundamentals), PayPal (P2P payments) and Bank of America (mobile banking) for being ready on day one of the launch of Apple's AppStore on iTunes for iPhone widgets. But a big thumbs down to the rest of the financial services industry for such a tardy response. For an overview of some of the more interesting (non-...
11 July 2008 /retail /wholesale Finance 2.0
The share dealing arm of Australia's Commonwealth Bank is ready to cash in on iPhone mania ahead of the initial 3G release in the country Friday. CommSec has developed a native iPhone app that effectively converts the device to a wireless laptop, from which users can check out news and market movements, view their holdings and outstanding orders ...
10 July 2008 /retail /wholesale Futuristic Banking
Further to my previous post on Merrill Lynch's ruminations over whether or not to shed its 20% stake in Bloomberg (Just how rich is Michael Bloomberg?), maybe we should also be asking: Just how much is Thomson Reuters worth? Shares in the vendor rose 48p to £13.07 Monday as brokers began to re-evaluate the company in light of the £3 billion to £6...
08 July 2008 /wholesale Finextra50 fintech index
John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd
Whether you call it commission sharing or unbundling, it seems a deceptively simple process, at the conceptual level at least – you normally split the commission on an equity deal into at least two elements (traditionally denoted as execution and research) and distribute these portions appropriately. Following an agreement, known in the UK as a CS...
04 July 2008 /wholesale MiFID
Cityboy, Beer and loathing in the Square Mile, is a fictionalised account of rampant egotism, greed, prostitution and drug-taking in the heart of London's financial centre. The lurid tome was penned by Geraint Anderson, a former utilities research analyst at DrKW, who grew tired of the City's excesses after a debauched ten year's at the sharp end....
04 July 2008 /wholesale Video extravaganza
The UK's Financial Services Authority has concluded its first insider dealing case in almost two years. The culprit? A Body Shop IT technician who snooped on private e-mails to make a £38,000 profit by shorting shares in the retailer ahead of a results announcement. Excuse me if I'm feeling a little underwhelmed. It's a bit like the caped crusade...
02 July 2008 /wholesale
Retired Member
It's great to see, in what others see as a fairly dry world, that asset servicing is heading up the agenda not just in the west, but also in the east. SWIFT is hosting two half day conferences for custodians and asset managers in August, the first in Singapore on August 5th and the second in Hong Kong on August 8th. My interest, which I'll declar...
01 July 2008 /wholesale SWIFT Matters
Financial messaging network Swift has been bigging up the switch over to its new corporate Web presence for the past few weeks now. The new site went live at the weekend, so I thought I'd pop over there today and see how it was bedding in. What a horror show - text scattered all over the page, huge chunks that fail to render. The usual teething pr...
30 June 2008 /payments /wholesale Finextra@Sibos
Investment firms were distinctly unimpressed by the London Stock Exchange's announcement that it is to work with Lehman Brothers to create a new dark pool trading platform. By mid-afternoon, shares in the UK stock market operator were trading almost 13% lower, giving up gains made the previous day on the back of speculation about a potential preda...
26 June 2008 /wholesale Finextra50 fintech index
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