Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
I participated in a roundtable recently held by compliance vendor NetConsent. It was a fairly broad-ranging discussion about how digital certificate and e-signature solutions have evolved and been adopted (or not, as the case may be) by businesses and governments over the past 10 years. One interesting example that came up is the way the Swedish ...
07 August 2007 /wholesale MiFID
John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd
The FSA have proposed this week that the cutover date for MiFID transaction reporting should move from 1st November to 5th November (i.e. to a more conventional Monday go live date) giving more time over the weekend to switch over and test the new processes and systems. This is, at face value, a practical move that is likely to make the switchover...
02 August 2007 /wholesale MiFID
I heard an interesting snippet the other day about IBM's plans to target the high performance computing needs of Wall St. and the City with blade servers based on its powerful Cell processor. IBM developed the processor with Toshiba and Sony. It is the brains of Sony's PlayStation 3 videogame console, but also has potential applications in industri...
10 July 2007 /wholesale
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
The McKinsey Quarterly has bagged an interview with Diane Schueneman, the head of Merrill Lynch's Global Infrastructure Solutions unit. The new division combines the firm's IT and operations arms. Schueneman explains how this integration has led the company to set new and ambitious goals for its combined operations and IT units and how it is build...
02 July 2007 /wholesale
Rich Marin, the embattled head of Bear Stearns asset management arm, was forced to step aside Friday in the wake of the near-collapse of two hedge funds associated with his division. He remains with the firm in an advisory capacity. Marin’s fate was finally sealed after the New York Times took pot shots at him for taking time off to go to the movie...
02 July 2007 /regulation /wholesale
In which activity are Romania, Ireland and the UK current leaders in Europe, and Italy and Spain are bottom of the league? If you have been following the financial press coverage, you will not doubt have quickly answered MiFID transposition (the copying of the MiFID directives into a states local law). Okay, not really an Olympic sport, although s...
02 July 2007 /wholesale MiFID
Kevin Anderson reports for the Guardian IT on an exercise organised by the Economic and Social Research Council to consider what sort of world the interplay and advances in nanotechnology, genomics, information technology and cognitive science might create. The policy wonks considered four possible visions of the future – two positive and two ne...
29 June 2007 /retail /wholesale Futuristic Banking
At last some positive news from overseas for Bob Greifeld and the Nasdaq stock market. The decision by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited to extend by five years a technology support deal with OMX will ease fears that Nasdaq’s proposed take-over would dent technology sales at the Nordic market operator. OMX currently provides exchange tech...
26 June 2007 /wholesale
Olivier Berthier CEO at Moneythor
The developing world and its booming Trade activities still remain very keen on traditional instruments such as the Letter of Credit (LC) and will most likely be for years to come. Even in the US, arguably one of the most prominent countries in the world in terms of their use of open account business, a recent survey by Bank of America of US manufa...
22 June 2007 /payments /wholesale Financial Supply Chain
MiFID has already had a huge impact in Europe - particularly on the conference and event management scene. And as my fellow bloggers Chrisses Skinner and Pickles have been regularly pointing out here on the Finextra Communities, it is going to have a huge, though uncertain, impact on market practices in the global capital markets in the coming yea...
20 June 2007 /wholesale MiFID
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