989 Results from 2010
Retired Member
I came across an interesting paper the other day published by GETCO: A Modern Market Maker’s Perspective on the European Financial Markets Regulatory Agenda. The HFT community has come in for quite a bit of stick recently and so it was refreshing to see an intelligent and well argued explanation of its role in today’s financial markets. One of the...
13 December 2010
Apparently 'a gentleman' at all times (FBI) the fellow has been found guilty of theft of trade secrets and transportation of stolen property. After a two week trial into IP involving a millionth of a second in trading and a short jury deliberation he was found guilty and awaits sentencing. See the original story.
13 December 2010 /security Whatever...
I report what I predict and what I observe. Risk managers should consider the risk of widespread adoption of sentiments in line with this post to an infosec site. Who would have predicted this? Will revelations about the financial industry about to be wikileaked add fuel to the fire? The kids are apparently not the only ones with ideas. I would as...
13 December 2010 /regulation Whatever...
Douwe Lycklama Founding partner at INNOPAY
ECB is putting up more pressure on the banking sector regarding online and mobile payments in their recently published 7th progress report: online payments have to be solved for Europe. In every debate on this topic I dearly miss the customer voice! In payments there are always two customers (buyers and sellers) but in the case of online payments
12 December 2010 /payments EBAday
If anyone thinks that the newspapers of the world aren't going to print embarrassing secrets and that disgruntled observers of dishonourable behaviour won't be compelled to reveal it then stop reading now. The danger that is greater is that the US and US financial institutions will reveal their lack of cyber defenses over a horse that has bolted.
12 December 2010 Whatever...
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
I've written before how groupthink, not only makes my skin crawl, but is counterproductive to innovation (it is the grit that makes the pearl, remember). But I've been thinking a lot about herd behaviour lately. I have a natural revulsion to following the crowd. How easy my life would be if I just cut & pasted popular opinion, without critique...
10 December 2010
Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
I met yesterday with the inimitable Vernon Hill, founder of Metro Bank, and with Metro's Chairman and co-founder, Anthony Thomson. It is interesting to hear Hill's view of why Metro is able to dominate in respect to the 'customer service' space in the UK branch market. Hill postulates that despite many banks rhetoric around being customer centered...
10 December 2010 /retail
It seems an appropriate time to start a scoreboard, seeing as every other conflict gets one. I was thinking Presidents, Ex-presidents, Bank Presidents, Prime Ministers and perhaps Senators would be sufficient for one side of the field and perhaps wikileakers on the other. Should we count loss of position or only actual imprisonment? Perhaps a try f...
10 December 2010 Whatever...
In 2020 e-invoicing has to be the predominant method of invoicing in Europe, according to European Commission. In its Communication ‘Reaping the benefits of electronic invoicing for Europe’ and in its Decision ‘Setting up the European Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Electronic Invoicing’, the EC sets out several actions to reach its 2020 vision. Unde
10 December 2010 Innovation in Financial Services
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Support for implementation of first global ISO-standard is starting to appear - also in Russia. And by SWIFT: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f9ecbbbc#/f9ecbbbc/1 It so makes sense for countries that have not yet created dominating local standards to go directly for the global one (we are all heading for it anyway). Why waste time – a lot of t...
10 December 2010 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
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