Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
Icap broker Johnny Black and fintech headhunter Chris Mike have posted a video of their charity striptease at Bank tube station on video-sharing Web site YouTube. As it’s all in aid of a good cause we’ve posted the x-rated vid on Finextra. Just click on the link below and watch grown men cavort to the sounds of Vanilla Ice as innocent bystanders...
13 March 2007 /wholesale Video extravaganza
Reuters is working on plans to develop a professional networking service for fund managers, traders and analysts. Pitching the project to Guardian journalists as a “version of MySpace for the financial services community”, Reuters’ Web 2.0-bedazzled CEO Tom Glocer adds: "It won't have the latest hot videos and the 'why I am into Metallica an...
07 March 2007 /wholesale
Icap broker Johnny Black and fintech headhunter Chris Mike are going to extreme lengths to publicise their forthcoming charity race to the North Pole. The two City gents have formed Team Bearing 360 North to compete in the 400-mile race and raise vital funds for Orchid, a male cancer charity dedicated to fighting prostate and testicular cancer. T...
05 March 2007 /wholesale
As leading FTSE shares post triple-digital losses in London this morning, the markets await with trepidation the response from Wall Street. The continuing slide in stocks in London follows further reverses in the Dow on Friday afternoon and another hammering for the Asian markets this am. The market wobble couldn’t have come at a worse time for U...
Nice to see the legacy human interface saving the day for Nyse after Tuesday’s run on stocks sent the Big Board’s fancy new electronic trading system into a tailspin. Capacity constraints forced the Nyse to shut down its automated trading system after a meltdown in Chinese share prices prompted a global panic that so upset the Dow Jones index calc...
01 March 2007 /wholesale
John Doyle Director at The Payments Business
I have read several articles in the financial press recently that so obviously regurgitate old press clippings. This laziness on the part of journalists leads to some regular and common inaccuracies, but none more so than the myth that abounds that SWIFT was ‘co-founded’ by Bessel Kok and a couple of friends! Why am I bothered you could ask, well...
28 February 2007 /payments /wholesale SWIFT Matters
Addled BlackBerry users looking to indulge their inclinations or control their CrackBerry habits now have a Website on which to find both a fix and a cure. CrackBerry.com offers help forums, beginner’s guides, downloads, an accessory store, and social networking features. The site is also updated daily with news, reviews and celebrity Blackberry ...
28 February 2007 /wholesale
John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd
At MPIE we recently provided input to a whitepaper from NetApp - a leading unified storage solutions supplier - on compliance trends and how to reduce the risk and costs of their impact. I will leave you to judge the specific merits of the NetApp solution, but the general principles are clear. By understanding and designing for the wider complianc...
27 February 2007 /regulation /wholesale MiFID
It’s déjà vu all over again. An imminent early switch to daylight savings time in the US is raising fears of a Y2K-style disruption to date-sensitive computer applications. And the problems could extend far beyond US shores. Thanks to a new law aimed at saving energy, daylight savings time in the US will start three weeks earlier on 11 March and en...
22 February 2007 /retail /wholesale
All eyes on Deutsche Börse and Italy’s Monte Titoli after rival exchange Euronext divested itself of all but five per cent of its holding in clearing and settlement agent LCH.Clearnet (LCH.Clearnet to buy out Euronext). European investment banks and lawmakers in Brussels have been pushing Europe’s exchanges to cut their ties to post-trade clearin...
15 February 2007 /wholesale Finextra50 fintech index
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