Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
I am still of the opinion that there is something fishy going on with the 'lone trader' theory at SocGen. However, my mate Peter Guest at the FT has almost changed my mind with this take: (printed with his permission) "Nope. Firstly, he's a junior trader, and not a well remunerated one. This is something that is more than possible - I've been...
25 January 2008
If this Reuters news item turns out to be true, Markit has a very good chance of becoming the number three data vendor behind Reuters/Thomson and Bloomberg. In fact, Tom Glocer was alledged to have said last year, that Boat would emerge as the data provider to fill the spot left open by the Thomson acquisition of Reuters. Markit has long been a c...
21 January 2008
I guess this should be added under Whatever.... I know I have defended Facebook et all before. However, they sent me a disappointing email this morning. Being on the wrong side of middle 30 (ish) I have racked up my fair share of jobs in the financial technology community. However, according to Facebook, that is one job too many. "Hi Eliza...
10 January 2008
While "Don't Tase me, Bro" has been reported as Quote of the Year in the mainstream press, we have some notable quotes in our little world as well. Today in a Bloomberg article Morgan Stanley CFO Colm Kelleher commenting on his bank's almost £10 billion dollar loss said this: `If you were to normalize our business and take out this $9.4 ...
20 December 2007
When I was in university in the early 1990s, I took a class on American Foreign Policy (no laughs please). My professor had worked in the Nixon and Reagan administrations and would not have been embarrassed by being called an old Cold Warrior. On the first day of lectures he stood up in front of the class and said. "I don't know what I am goi...
04 December 2007 /security
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