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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
According to this article yesterday on Computerworld a sophisticated crew of German speaking hackers have conducted a data mining exercise with a difference. They've trolled through the account details generated by a generic widespread trojan to identify corporate and offshore bank accounts, and have then targeted individual banks and corporate cu...
14 December 2007 /security Information Security
I had an interesting conversation today with Steve Rubinow, CTO of NYSE Euronext. Just over a year after the third phase of NYSE’s Hybrid trading system went live, heralding the massive shift away from the floor and specialist trading, HP’s PR people contacted me this week with an announcement that the Hybrid system is running on HP Non-stop and bl...
13 December 2007 /wholesale Trends in Financial Services
I attended an interesting roundtable held by Omgeo this morning. Kicking off the discussion, Omgeo's industry relations manager Tony Freeman reported a few things he'd heard at a recent ISITC event that supported his view that globalisation and diversification of increasingly complex tradeable instrument types is taking the market into new territor...
28 November 2007 /wholesale Trends in Financial Services
At last week’s Forum for Innovation in Financial Services, organised by Finextra, we had some excellent presentations from James Gardner at Lloyds TSB and Pol Navarro of Banco Sabadell giving insight into how these particular banks are approaching the challenge of managing a formal innovation programme. The subsequent panel discussion also involve...
15 November 2007 /retail /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
A new report from Deloitte Research on M&A trends contains some interesting findings. Although it is based on a wide survey of active acquirers earlier this year, when deal value and volumes were still high, the report positions itself as offering advice for M&A strategy in today's uncertain economic climate. The survey looked at what per...
15 November 2007 /wholesale Finextra50 fintech index
Popular digital arts community and message board B3ta.com poses an interesting question of the week – What’s the most expensive mistake you’ve ever made? Not surprisingly, IT cock-ups make up a large number of responses. But the best one describes what happened when a poorly written storage management script brought down the entire same-day settlem...
26 October 2007 /wholesale
The FT reports that SmartStream's bookbuilding for its IPO is not going quite as well as hoped, and that it probably won't be reaching the £300 million figure it said earlier this month it wanted to raise. This isn't particularly surprising given the state of the markets and potential decreases in IT budgets among the banks that SmartStream sells ...
28 September 2007 /wholesale Finextra50 fintech index
US payments industry association NACHA has formed a 'green coalition' with a number of leading US banks to 'educate consumers' about the environmental benefits of electronic bills and statements over paper-based equivalents. I should have thought that connection would be rather obvious. Less paper = less dead trees = less CO2 in atmosphere etc. But...
20 September 2007 /retail Going green
News this week from Las Vegas about telcos offering rewards for information on thieves stealing live cable got me thinking about the possible cause of Internet bank Egg's woes this week. C&W, which provides Egg's web hosting, says it was having to put in re-routes to take customers away from the fault while they isolate it. If they find that t...
24 August 2007 /security /retail
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