Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
An internet campagn has started to save the job of the Macquarie bank employee who was looking at an email that contained pictures of a semi-naked lingerie model. Man looks at pictures of semi-naked woman. Shocker! Save Dave I said it in the office, I say it now. Poor Bloke.
04 February 2010
Last week four bank experts sat down with Lee Fulmer of IBM to discuss the intended and un-intended consequences of the Payment Services Directive, as part of Finextra ongoing FinextraLive webcast series. Amongst the 75 minutes of lively chat, our panel grappled with the idea that payments might be more trouble than it's worth for some banks. Micha...
01 February 2010 /payments /retail EBAday
When the, then, chairman of JP Morgan ask his risk department to "give me a daily report on our risk exposure" in the late 80s, little did he know that the bank would be responsbile for changing the way risk is measured and preceived across the industry. JP Morgan's RiskMetrics introduced Value-at-Risk, historical simulation, variance and...
27 January 2010 /regulation
I'm going out on a bit of a limb here, but here goes. I was walking past the RBS building on Bishopsgate after leaving the Deutsche Bank press event. (they plan on becoming the number one payments clearer for mobile money providers - but more on that on FinextraLive later.) A handful of hardy souls 'Youth Votes for Jobs' (I am sorry if I got it wro...
21 January 2010
Those of you Twitters out there may be experiencing a slow Twitter day. No, it is not due to old Teddy Kennedy turning in his grave (I'll spare the Finextra Community my views on that one). But it seems Bill Gates joined Twitter last night...and broke it. Oh dear. Or it was just the too many Whales ...not as much fun.
20 January 2010 Whatever...
Well, today is, officially, the most miserable day of the year - the third Monday in January. However, it is Martin Luther King Jr. Day for those in the US. And for those of us working in London, today is the first real day back to work where we didn't have to slush through snow, suffer through train delays or fall down stairs in public (don't ask)...
18 January 2010
The latest re-organisation of Dow Jones by Murdoch's News Corp. did not leave a place for market data veteran Clare Hart. Management reshuffles are nothing new in any industry. A press release is issued with the top brass thanking the departing exec for 'all their years of service' and contribution to the growth of the company -yada yada yada... I...
05 January 2010 Women in Technology
Finextra is soon to head off in our separate directions for our Christmas break. So I thought I would scribble down some New Year predictions. Fed up with Sibos prices, a 'major international bank' will set up a snack booth outside one of Amsterdam's various cafes - attendees claim bratwurst at the show was the best ever and would gladly pay twice...
17 December 2009 Whatever...
Today's Innovation in Payments rountable, sponsored by the Visa Europe Research Fellowship at the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, was filled with many 'what ifs' in regards to the Payments Services Directive. What if settlement risk increases as a result of all these potential new payment institution entrants? What if Tesco decide to ...
10 December 2009 /payments
Finextra and BT recently held a webcast looking at the future of financial networks. The lively, transatlantic debate, with expert panalists from NY and London, soon turned towards Asia. Here are some excerpts from our discussion: "People [in Asia] are very interested to know what is going on in the US in regards to transparency and fairness,&...
08 December 2009
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