477 Results from 2007
Retired Member
There's a curious installation in Trafalgar Square here in swinging London at the moment. No - not that rubbish statue on the fourth plinth - no this one looks like a small house (1 Carbon Drive) but inside are some interactive displays designed to help get the energy-saving message across. Worthy and some fun but we found it all a bit slow and pa...
07 December 2007 Going green
I see that financiers have noticed that there's been a 12.4% increase in de-listings of foreign companies on US exchanges. The explanation appears to be either "a pent up demand to leave the US" or "the increasing unattractiveness of the US capital markets". Not only are these symptoms not causes, I'm not sure they're really ...
05 December 2007 /security /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd
The humble cheque seems to have some very keen supporters as Ian Benn's blog demonstrates, so I thought it was worth sharing some material extracted from the most recent MPIE Financial Sector Bulletin (to receive a full copy of this bulletin each month just send an email containing the word subscribe to contact at mpi-europe.com) Over the last 10...
05 December 2007 /payments UK Faster Payments
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
While doing a bit of research into high performance computing for our capital markets conference Finexpo, I stumbled across this article in Business Week on the Betfair gambling exchange. It seems that London-based Betfair has developed a new trading engine dubbed Flywheel, which is capable of handling 100,000 transactions per second and five mill...
04 December 2007 /wholesale Finexpo
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
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
Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional
Further to my jottings to on the subject of using mobile numbers as citizen IDs, I thought I would get more into details on the subject. Mobile phones can be the tipping point of reaching out the 'next billion' unbanked mass. Prima facie, I am sure we all agree that riding on an existing infrastructure is much better alternative than trying to st...
04 December 2007 /payments /regulation
What is it about politics and embarrassing metadata? UK readers will be familiar with the row about dodgy political donations that is currently surrounding the Labour party. It was perhaps only a matter of time before metadata gave someone's secrets away - as it has a habit of doing in political rows. Well, it happened this weekend - the Sunday...
03 December 2007 /security /regulation Information Security
Reading one of John Cant’s recent blogs, I thought that we should remind ourselves that off-exchange trading existed before MiFID. 50% of UK trading in UK equities has been taking place away from the computer systems of the London Stock Exchange for quite some time now. 30%-50% of equity trading across Europe has been taking place off-exchange (...
03 December 2007
Just the other day, I was reading a series of reports by Boston Consulting Report (BCG). Normally, such reports use statistics like a drunk using a lamp-post - for support than illumination. But these reports are an exception! The report on India particularly fascinated me. According to BCG, the next big opportunity for banks is the 'billion ' unb...
02 December 2007 /regulation
Okay, so you are probably reading this blog because of the title, so I had best explain what it is all about. In the olden days - so I understand - when the UK Monarch died, a courtier used to announce the "King is dead, long live the King". Presumably this was both to signal the passing of an era, as well as to express continuity of the...
30 November 2007 MiFID
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