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John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd
With thoughts switching from MiFID compliance to the post MiFID impact on markets, here is a brief summary of some research on the probable impact on smaller European equity markets. The traditional view is that with MiFID small national exchanges will cease to exist as they will be wiped out by the major exchanges/MTFs that MiFID facilitates. How...
28 January 2008 /wholesale MiFID
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
This just in: January 2008, Incisive Media's annual Risk Awards black-tie dinner. "Last year was the most volatile since 1998, with rising delinquencies in the US subprime mortgage market causing banks to rack up billions of dollars in losses. Risk recognises those institutions that weathered the storm, and continued to provide liquidity and ...
25 January 2008 /regulation /wholesale
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
The SocGen fraud story, which is flabbergasting the industry and providing a distraction from credit crunch woes and hand-wringing about the dangers of overly complex structured productios, is remarkable for a number of reasons. The losses don't come from any exotic OTC dealings. Instead, the trader was dealing in plain vanilla futures on European...
24 January 2008 /regulation /wholesale
After previewing its fourth quarter results on Monday, IBM yesterday provided more details yesterday, which provided a boost for the tech sector generally. And although it may be too early to tell, they could also show that any falls in bank tech spending resulting from the current financial crisis aren't too severe (yet). The company saw earning...
18 January 2008 /wholesale Finextra50 fintech index
Retired Member
Coming to Finexpo? Curious to know what's going on? We've just put the updated speaker session listings live - with speaker photos and session profiles. Finexpo CTS seminar sessions Finexpo day at a glanceFinexpo exhibitors
16 January 2008 /wholesale Finexpo
At US$ 100 oil-a-barrel lots of opportunities can be visible. Every alternative energy / research project on earth was looking expensive at $28 or $36 or $46. But what about $ 60-70-80-90 and now intermediately at $100? Prices are varying everyday and how long one should wait? Do Banks have alternative energy divisions? Has anything done beyond r...
15 January 2008 /regulation /wholesale Going green
Your chief executive took home nearly $100 million in 2006 and you run a fleet of 20-odd corporate jets to ferry board directors to important business meetings and former executives to important Red Sox baseball games. But with the credit squeeze tightening it’s time to start looking at expense management. Where to begin? Employee perks are the ob...
07 January 2008 /retail /wholesale Whatever...
We should all be saying Happy New Year! Well, actually we have already, especially to tax authorities around the world. Many of them have just received a New Year's present of cash from the financial services industry, funded by investors. Why? Well, as cross border investment steadily increases at over 16% a year, each time there's a dividend p...
07 January 2008 /regulation /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
The Finextra Community site was launched with little fanfare to a small coterie of beta users back in February this year. In opening the community we were hoping to create a forum for interaction with our global user base, and create a logical series of private and public spaces on the Web where fintech professionals could congregate, make connect...
21 December 2007 /retail /wholesale
So, it’s late December. The post Christmas party hangovers are becoming increasingly frequent, you’re just about done with the shopping, and the urge to work is waning. In short, it’s a great time of year to announce the inaugural Finextra Awards. Thankfully there was no shortage of topics to base the awards on – with a wide range of good, bad and ...
19 December 2007 /retail /wholesale Trends in Financial Services
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