Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
With the Caplin Xaqua application earlier in the week, and now this low-latency network supplied by Colt - word on the street is that the industry will be seeing a lot more IT-related projects emerging from Nomura. Independant developers and freelance programmers are a chatty bunch. Nomura got a sweet bargain when it acquired the European and Asia...
22 October 2009 /wholesale
Fresh off the news that Nomura required female executives to attend 'tea making' courses - now comes the news that the Asian bank has banned 'gay' nail polish. Before the Gay and Lesbian Alliance start picketing their offices in Canary Wharf it seems this edict was a result of a poor English translation asking staff to refrain from wearing brightl...
20 October 2009 Whatever...
Interesting, if brief, talk about ‘How are firms can capitalising on high frequency trading?' at the FIX Protocol quarterly meeting last night. The panel (whom I can't quote unless I jump through some ‘media training-inspired' hoops, so I won't bother) spend the first part of the discussion trying to define exactly what High Frequency Trading is? T...
13 October 2009
Many trading strategies and volumes change throughout the day resulting in uneven latency requirements. This is the real world reality of low latency. The vendors that claim ultra-low latency are offering speeds that, most likely, were achieved in closed, clinical, laboratory conditions. A dealing floor is an irregular environment where programme ...
12 October 2009
"Speaking at a WFE conference in Vancouver, Federation chairman William Brodsky, said: "We've allowed the technology and the evolution of these markets to run way ahead of the regulators' ability to understand them." Hmmmmmm... First off let's just remind ourselves that 'dark pools' have been around for a while - what is new is that ...
09 October 2009 /regulation
I got an email from someone today asking: 'when I wrote RIA, did I mean Rich Internet Applications or Registered Investment Advisors?' Of course, it is the sloppy journalist who relies on jargon (or acronyms!) in their writing. The easiest way to make sure your readers understand what you are saying, is to say it in plain, simple and straightforwar...
06 October 2009 /retail Whatever...
According to blog reports, and reported on BBC online, thousands of hotmail account passwords have obtains as part of a phishing scam and posted on a website. One tech blog estimates that as many as 10,000 email accounts have been compromised by publishing their passwords. Most of these accounts belong to people in Europe. Microsoft told BBC News ...
05 October 2009 /security
Ratings agencies are, of course, of the villains of the credit crunch. They eagerly handed out triple A ratings to dodgy structured products, like a hippie teacher at a nursery who makes sure everyone gets a gold star. However, not everyone sees the likes of S&P, Fitch, Moody's et al in quite the same way. Recently, Barbara Ridpath (who is curr...
01 October 2009 /regulation
The recorded replay of Finextra and Adobe-sponsored webcast looking at risk and regulation in financial services - Be Afraid or Be Ready - is now available as an on demand version. If you could not register to watch the live recording of the webcast, you can register now and watch the panelists debate the current state of risk management and regula...
28 September 2009 /regulation
Not once, not twice, but three times at Sibos, I have spoken to people who say Transaction Banking is The New Sexy. Admittedly, they did work in transaction banking, but I can see their point. Banks, especially the large masters of the universe over at investment banking, have not been living in the land of happy over the past two years. However, o...
17 September 2009 /payments /sibos
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