Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
After a merger those who practice the dark art of PR are always keen to emphasise how well things are goings. Staff are settling in nicely and technology is integrating with ease. However, today's Wall Street Journal has two items which shed a less than rose-tinted glare on the proceedings between Nomura and the European and Asian operations of Le...
29 July 2009
Always one to beat a dead cause célèbre, I thought I call around a few marketers at high street banks to see what they thought of the recent analyst report from Morgan Stanley. The one that listed the media tastes of teenagers, written by a 15 year old intern. The item in the report that most intrigued (and frankly didn't surprise) us was the state...
24 July 2009 /retail Social Banks
This Monday, July 27 at 14:00 - 15:15 BST, Finextra and Adobe will be hosting a free webcast examining and debating the use of innovative internet technologies in client portals. You can still register to attent this event on the Finextra web site. Top sell-side firms are now offering enhanced trading tools through channel innovations in communica...
23 July 2009
Believe me, I went looking for a worthy blog post for today--maybe something on the 'LSE failing to grab the OTC derivatives bull by the exchange-traded horns'--but of course, this little number caught my eye. Bloomberg posted that Lehman Brothers is setting up a retail shop in order to sell all its surplus logo'ed merchandise as part of its effor...
21 July 2009 /regulation Whatever...
The US justice department's investigation of the CDS market is probably more a reflection of the changing political attitudes surrounding credit derivatives rather than a discovery of criminal behaviour as a result of months of financial forensics. When CDSs were the closest thing to liquid gold in the financial markets two years ago (remember thos...
14 July 2009 Data Management 101
You can usualy be sure that if you see a feature update on the lives of teenagers (what gadgets they are using what slang falls from their mounths...that kind of thing) you can be sure that the information is woefully out of date. Elderly media commentators desperately trying to get 'down with the kids.' However, the FT recently ran a story here ...
13 July 2009 /retail Social Banks
The mainstream media has been discussing this week, the new instructions to the Financial Services Authority from the UK's chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling. All of a sudden the goverment and the regulator should now be concered with systemic risk and Darling has issued some changes to the FSA operating proceedures. But this paragraph ...
08 July 2009 /regulation
One of my former collegues once started a panel discussion on buy side technology by saying "Technology means nothing unless it has a business use." He had a very valid point. The trendiest, up to the minute technology is all fine and dandy, but if you can't trade, invest, process with it--who cares? The same can be said for data. There i...
01 July 2009 /regulation Data Management 101
Which region experiences the least amount of online banking fraud? Is it the one with the most stringent regulations or with the most investment in expensive, state-of-the-art fraud protection software? According to Paul Henninger, Director of Fraud Solutions, Actimize who spoke on the Payments and risk management panel at this week's EBADay in Vie...
01 July 2009 /security /payments
At the Payment Markets Insight into Central and Eastern Europe panel discussion at this week's EBADay in Vienna I did not expect to hear a (minor) diss to the mighty Swift. Hermann Fürstenau, sales manager, at PPI AG extrolled the virtues of the Electronic Banking Internet Comunications Standard (EBICS to those are are required to comply). Sepa is ...
30 June 2009 /payments
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