Retired Member
Maybe after MiFID we’ll need to change the way that we use English. Why do we call off-exchange trading “Over The Counter”? (because we don’t think of on-exchange trading as being “under the counter”, do we). Many of us would find it hard to explain the difference in English between a trade and a transaction – yet trade reporting and transaction...
11 June 2007
Interested in peoples thoughts on this topic - how will the typical trading desk be look in the next 5-15 years? Some themes to start the ball rolling... Will traders (in the human sense) be actually involved or will they finally have been replaced by a rack of servers? To me this is a real possibility on some flow desks.What about the physical i...
08 June 2007 Capital Markets Technology
In a more competitive MiFID world, will exchanges admit all EEA listed equities for trading? It seems like they either continue to be a domestic “corner shop”, just offering local produce in competition to new bank/broker-driven execution venues that can trade every equity in the world, or they turn into a “hypermarket” where you can buy absolute...
08 June 2007
John Doyle’s blog about “The SWIFT Future” has had my fingers twitching for a couple of weeks, and as nobody else is joining in…. SWIFT plays a very important role in a changing market. Its role has changed, as the market has changed. It was created to put together a solution for cross-border payments in a world where there were no global network...
06 June 2007
Yes – that age old question. Is it the buy-side firm that puts in its order that owns the data, or is it the broker who executes the order, or the exchange on which the order is executed, or the data vendor who delivers the data to the end-user? One thing that you notice about financial markets: if something is worth something, nobody gives it awa...
It’s interesting when you think of the “swings and roundabouts” of markets – everything moves in one direction for a few years, and then swings back in the other direction for another few years. First there’s a trend towards centralisation, and then there’s a trend towards decentralisation, and then we’re off towards centralisation again. ISD gav...
I looked on with horror today at the replacement for the rather nice London 2012 logo. I liked the old one - the Thames sweeping through the 2012. Classy. We're good at logos and design in the UK. The old British Rail logo - still in use. The Tube map. The Finextra logo - a classic. Kidding. Banks of course all have logos - usually quite nifty on...
04 June 2007 Cringeworthy marketing gallery
Standard practice in financial markets has been to look at what is happening in the USA, and then do the same. After all, it’s the biggest market, isn’t it, so they must know best (?!). I spent some time in Toronto last week discussing the changing regulatory environments in the USA, Canada and the EEA. Many Americans who haven’t bothered to find...
04 June 2007
The demands on CIO budgets within the finance sector were supposed to ease this year, however demands of 'the same for less' are as strong as ever. There are several ways to meet this request including rationalisation of the technology portfolio, ensuring architecture is stuck to ( and the right supplier contracts negotiated ), using development a...
01 June 2007 /wholesale
We've made a couple of improvements to the site. You'll see on the home and main listing pages we now have a "most popular communities" listing in the right hand panel. While you're in a community page - you can now see everyone who joined that community via a "view all members" link - again in the right hand panel. Finally - ...
01 June 2007 Finextra site news
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