1135 Results from 2009
Retired Member
Those of you that have followed this blog know that I have commented a few times on the impact on fragmentation when a primary market has been unavailable. Well, yesterday it was the turn of SIX Group to run the experiment. Due to a technical glitch, SIX was unable to provide prices on major Swiss stocks for a few hours yesterday afternoon. A quic...
13 November 2009
Dirk Kinvig Web Services Manager at Finextra
The Web Development Team has been busy yet again. We've created a new look and feel for the individual news story pages. Some elements on the page have been moved around. Other elements have been added. I’ve highlighted some of the changes, (though there are others!): 1. We now have an at-a-glance view of the number of people that have viewed each...
13 November 2009 Finextra site news
I went along to the Forum on News Analytics over in Canary Wharf on Monday evening, organised by Professor Gautam Mitra from OptiRisk / Carisma at Brunel University. I guess we are in the early days of transforming news articles into quantifiable/machine-readable data so that it can be processed automatically/systematically in trading and risk m...
13 November 2009 /regulation Data Management 101
Or marketing's just the same as it always was, despite the technology. This post is prompted by a blog post from PRGeek (Jon Silk, @prgeek) from a social media conference today. He suggests in a recent tweet "Old media: Stick a celeb in an ad. New media: Stick a celeb on the web. Social media: Stick a celeb on Twitter.". My point is that...
12 November 2009
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Years ago (like 20) a friend was graduating from college and moving away and a bunch of friends were throwing a party for this person. Collectively they asked me if I’d write a small speech as a version of “This is your life”. Stymied as to why they would ask me to do it I asked ”Why me?” My girlfriend at the time said, and I quote “Because you g...
12 November 2009 /security /regulation
I was chatting with the guys at Fidessa Towers the other day about what constitutes the “right” business model for venues in the post MiFID environment. It’s an interesting question, and one the European regulators seemed to completely ignore when they first introduced MiFID back in November 2007. The evidence so far is uncertain. MiFID has und...
With the pain of the Banking induced recession, the ending of the ‘credit on demand' society, the growing animosity of the banking regulators, and the falling from fashion of the credit card, will its ‘poor cousin' the debit card be the payment product for the decade of 2010? Although the ‘look and feel' of the credit and the debit card are simila...
12 November 2009 /retail Transaction Banking
Steven Murdoch Royal Society University Research Fellow at University College London
Today, Finextra published a video interview with me, discussing my research on banks using card readers for online banking, which was recently featured on TV. In this interview, I discuss some of the more technical aspects of the attacks on card readers, including the one demonstrated on TV (which requires compromising a Chip & PIN terminal),...
11 November 2009 /security Information Security
Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence
A stealthy hack into a financial system; clever manipulation of data by exploiting hidden vulnerabilities; an international cash-out operation of gargantuan proportions reminiscent of Al-Qaeda multiple-attack plan. FBI agents working internationally to trace the criminals and bring them to justice. All the elements of a good Hollywood Heist film, ...
11 November 2009 /security /payments Online Banking
Stephen Wilson Managing Director at Lockstep Consulting
If only we could get our collective heads around the problem of assuring the pedigree of online information -- be it credit card numbers, or simply name and address -- the ROI for chip cards would be plain to see. Observation:$100B worth of fraud is ID related Premise: To prevent personal data being replayed behind the backs of its owners, those da...
10 November 2009
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