John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd
Twitter has been referred to as the Marmite of social media. You either love it or you hate it. I must admit that despite being a regular tweeter, I have been having mixed feelings about this channel over the months. Some days I think it is great, when I find out something, or connect to someone that I could not have done through traditional mea
10 November 2010 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
It is that tradeshow time of year when specific communities disappear out of the office to meet up with other people to do the physical rather than virtual/social networking. This last week it was SIBOS, the annual event for payments and transaction banking facilitated and organised by SWIFT. This year the SIBOS camp set up its stall in Amsterda
04 November 2010 /regulation Finance 2.0
Over recent months we have seen the FSA in the UK, as well as regulators in other geographies, hit the record books with larger and more numerous fines for misconduct – e.g. for poor reporting, or handling of customer data. These fines are supposed to be a deterrent and to change the behavior of market participants. However, the increased size an
06 October 2010 /retail /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
My 16 year old sports mad son read a book by Ed Smith, an Anglo Welsh county cricketer, over the summer entitled ‘What Sport Tells Us About Life’, and was mightily impressed. The book’s brilliance – he tells me - stems from the recognition that sport is life in miniature, and that if you analyse sport you find a mine of information about war, mo
01 September 2010 /regulation /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
I have a bit of a soft spot for technology. So I was interested to find out more recently about some of the smart technology that is behind the eye catching video advertising screens that are popping up around train stations and our department stores. Under the catchy umbrella term of digital signage, these screens are becoming increasingly sophi
21 June 2010 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
For most financial sector decision makers, the challenging market conditions of the past year or so - despite any recent positive portents that countries are exiting recession - have promoted a natural prudence or caution when it comes to initiating change or projects. It is tempting for them to delay an explicit project cost, or to introduce an a...
25 September 2009 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
Taking my daily dose of FT online, I was struck by the article entitled Count us in, maths experts tell regulator which, in summary, seems to boil down to the agreement by both Lord Turner and financial mathematicians (aka "quants") that maths is a very powerful tool if used properly by people who understand the business they are modell...
10 June 2009 /regulation /wholesale Banking Architecture
The announcement overnight that Cogent Consulting LLC, leading developer of commission management systems for the securities industry, has signed a letter of intent for the sale of a majority of the company to a group of major global institutional broker-dealers, is the strongest signal yet that brokers have taken up the challenge to create an in...
20 May 2009 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
Apparently travel broadens the mind, at least that’s why I am travelling to Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium with alliance partner Rob Woolley (SVP EMEA of Globant) to the Somesso “Creating Social Capital” event. For those of you who don’t know Globant, it is the leading Latin-American IT Services & Software Development group, and they have developed...
14 May 2009 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
In one of my recent Financial Sector bulletins, I initiated a discussion on whether innovation is a good strategy for current market conditions. The debate on our FS Think Tank LinkedIn group - a new and growing discussion group set up with a number of alliance partners - was particularly active and practical. For example, I was glad to read tha...
04 May 2009 /retail /wholesale Trends in Financial Services
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