Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
Eventually talk at Sibos settles on the layout of the conference and exhibition hall. While the facilities at the Hong Kong centre are impressive, it has ruffled a few feathers. The exhibition hall is split between two, completely separate floors, separated by two sets of stairs. The conference sessions are further afield. In fact you can attend al...
16 September 2009 /sibos
Are you anticipating the upcoming Payments Services Directive with fear, excitement or indifference? Do you see the emergence of additional PIs in Europe as competition or as a business opportunity? To find out how your peers feel about the PSD you have to take part in Finextra's Sibos survey - The PSD - Markets Opportunities Survey. Launched at Si...
14 September 2009 /payments /sibos
This year's Sibos is haunted by the ghosts of Vienna in 2008, when a large chunk of delegates were called back to their home offices to deal with the fall out from the collapse of Lehman Brothers. While (fingers crossed) there are no rumours of crashing banks yet (too much government money floating around now) the most exciting whisper in Hong Kong...
14 September 2009 /sibos
Many attending Sibos in Hong Kong this week will have noticed that Deutsche Bank is pushing its green agenda. The bank's booth was made from prefabricated, frameless light-weight modular materials in order to reduce transport space and weight thus reducing the carbon footprint in transportation. Deutsche Bank also plans to donate the furntiture fro...
It is not too late to register for our web cast on risk and regulation in financial services - Be Afraid or Be Ready - sponsored by Adobe. The live event will take place at 14:00 BST on Thursday, 10 September 2009. Regulatory reporting has long been seen as an onerous and manually intensive process. The threat of more frequent and more detailed rep...
09 September 2009 /regulation /wholesale
Today in post-Bank Holiday London a group of climate change campaigners snuck onto the RBS trading floor in the Bishopsgate offices and glued themselves together. The WSJ has printed a few words on the incident. RBS staff were told not to leave the building. But it seems the pasted-protestors, who had disguised themselves as building workers, sta...
01 September 2009 Whatever...
Securities and Futures Chief Executive Martin Wheatley (and former deputy chief executive of the LSE) did a Q&A with the WSJ this week. Where he talks about how Hong Kong tempted him away from making cabinets (and holidaying in Switerland). But he weighs in with his view of dark pools and their introduction in Asia. "Dark pools have got t...
28 August 2009
Flash-trading, high-frequency trading, algo trading (there will be a test at the end of term) have been the villains of the Summer of 2009 according to various news reports. The scariest scenario peddled in the press is that these quick, small order trades will be executed via dark pools - normally used to shift large, block orders of less-than-liq...
27 August 2009
Some time ago an editor at Bloomberg said to me "Are you ready to do things 'The Bloomberg Way'? I naively responded, "Is that like a style guide?" "You could call it that, if you like," came the response. Alas a career peppered with free cookies and senior managers decked out in Ozwald Boateng suites did not await me. But ...
07 August 2009
Paul Krugman in the NY Times writes that high frequency trading serves no social purpose other than to offer one person (or one bank) a profit. "Just to be clear: financial speculation can serve a useful purpose. It's good, for example, that futures markets provide an incentive to stockpile heating oil before the weather gets cold and stockpi...
04 August 2009
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