Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
I've noticed a trend among recent conferences I've attended: a growing number of sell-side firms sending along their business development and product managers to speak about algorithmic trading. While these guys are far too smart to engage in an unadulterated sales pitch, and for the most part their presentations have been insightful, there is an ...
14 March 2007 /wholesale
At an event this week I heard an interesting opinion from the compliance head of German bank WestLB. His view was that in the German market, no-one saw any strategic benefits arising from MiFID - only cost and hard work. In fact, he said, with Germany's fragmented financial industry, many would be overburdened by the cost of compliance and this co...
09 March 2007 MiFID
Today's news saw an announcement that's likely to become more commonplace over the next two years: the merger of two European payment infrastructures. The merger of Voca and Link doesn’t fit as neatly with the European Commission’s vision as last year’s merger of Dutch payments body Interpay and Germany's Transaktionsinstitut to create Equens. The ...
06 March 2007 /payments SEPA and European Payments
The trained dog at the ATM story got me thinking about how well banks are catering to disabled communities with their banking channels -- whether branch, ATM or website. I recall that some banks have given thought to ATM accessibility in the past by having at least one machine in a row of several positioned much lower than the rest so short people,...
02 March 2007 /retail Trends in Financial Services
What's interesting about the DoCoMo mobile payment technology referenced in this recent story, and what differentiates it from many other m-payment initiatives operating elsewhere in the world, is that the Osaifu Keitai (literal translation = wallet cell phone) system acts like a contacless smart card, using Son'y FeLiCa technology. (Other Japane...
28 February 2007 /payments /retail Trends in Financial Services
Looks like National Australia Bank (NAB) is the latest bank to fall victim to mail-out problems that compromise customer data. They're not the first, and are unlikely to be the last. The usual bank spokesperson agenda in these situations is to claim that there is nothing in the lapse that exposes customers to to risk of fraud. But thinking about ...
26 February 2007 /security /retail Trends in Financial Services
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