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01 March 2007 Finextra site news
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
Nice to see the legacy human interface saving the day for Nyse after Tuesday’s run on stocks sent the Big Board’s fancy new electronic trading system into a tailspin. Capacity constraints forced the Nyse to shut down its automated trading system after a meltdown in Chinese share prices prompted a global panic that so upset the Dow Jones index calc...
01 March 2007 /wholesale
Steve Ellis Founder at Finextra Research
Chinese scientists* have learnt how to 'fly' a pigeon by implanting micro electrodes in the little fella's brains. Its not exactly Airbus a380... beep = up, beeeep = down, beeeeeeep = left... get the picture? Strangely, the Chinese can offer no practical use for this breakthrough technology. I can think of lots, mostly involving real world intera...
01 March 2007 Whatever...
Even fintec guys care about the planet, right? So you might be interested in this glorious story picked up by Boing Boing about an powerboat taking part in Earthrace fuelled by a mix of biofuels and 'human ass-fat' (sometimes Americans are truly great at the English language). All the world's energy problems - and the developed world's obesity p...
28 February 2007 Whatever...
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
What's interesting about the DoCoMo mobile payment technology referenced in this recent story, and what differentiates it from many other m-payment initiatives operating elsewhere in the world, is that the Osaifu Keitai (literal translation = wallet cell phone) system acts like a contacless smart card, using Son'y FeLiCa technology. (Other Japane...
28 February 2007 /payments /retail Trends in Financial Services
John Doyle Director at The Payments Business
I have read several articles in the financial press recently that so obviously regurgitate old press clippings. This laziness on the part of journalists leads to some regular and common inaccuracies, but none more so than the myth that abounds that SWIFT was ‘co-founded’ by Bessel Kok and a couple of friends! Why am I bothered you could ask, well...
28 February 2007 /payments /wholesale SWIFT Matters
Addled BlackBerry users looking to indulge their inclinations or control their CrackBerry habits now have a Website on which to find both a fix and a cure. CrackBerry.com offers help forums, beginner’s guides, downloads, an accessory store, and social networking features. The site is also updated daily with news, reviews and celebrity Blackberry ...
28 February 2007 /wholesale
John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd
Well the answer is obviously yes, I do. Particularly when it throws up in that Hitch Hicker’s Guide to the Galaxy, maximum improbability drive way a gem like “Managers Say the Majority of Information Obtained for Their Work Is Useless, Accenture Survey Finds”. There I was looking for some dull, but important nugget on MiFID, or was it payments or ...
27 February 2007 Trends in Financial Services
At MPIE we recently provided input to a whitepaper from NetApp - a leading unified storage solutions supplier - on compliance trends and how to reduce the risk and costs of their impact. I will leave you to judge the specific merits of the NetApp solution, but the general principles are clear. By understanding and designing for the wider complianc...
27 February 2007 /regulation /wholesale MiFID
Unfortunately, it seems likely that ING's 'ourvirtualholland' may have to contend with some of the issues found in 'ourrealamsterdam' - take a look at this news report from Reuters' Second Life columnist Warren Ellis (no relation) recorded on his own blog. Here's a snippet of Warren's report: <There have been attempts, recently, to downplay t...
26 February 2007 /retail
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