1205 Results from 2008
Retired Member
Yes, even easier than it was last week. In fairness, we have responded to some user feedback and we've made some adjustments to make it a little more straightforward. In case you missed last week's post, a comment is a quick and concise text response to a news or feature item. If you want to go into depth with links and a picture, then post a relat...
02 December 2008 Finextra site news
I have been looking at the Super (401K/Retirement) Funds over the last few months and I don't see that they have much of a future. In Australia investors who haven't quite lost all their money have either had their instructions completely ignored by the funds, or had their deposits frozen. I'd be thinking that once those customers get their money o...
02 December 2008 Whatever...
“Good morning gentlemen…and lady.” Sir Gordon Bennett, the chairman of EuroCorp smiled gratuitously and made eye contact with Karen Carbuncle, the only female in the room. “The events of the past six months have been harrowing and this financial crisis is far from over. We see further downside for the next 12 months at least but, I’m happy to say...
Interesting to read in the papers today that at least 10 boroughs in the UK now have almost 50% of the working population employed by the state, rather than the private sector. This, with what is happening in the economy, and the continuing evolution of the tax and benefits system in the image of the Government, looks a bit like creeping Sovietis...
01 December 2008 /retail Transaction Banking
Keith Bear Vice President, Financial Markets at IBM
On perusing an email from Lepus some weeks ago I was struck by the title of one piece of their research "VaR, what is it good for!" Having been involved in working with several banks on market risk implementations a decade ago, I remember the mathematical simplicity and purity of VaR models had at the time, the impact that the original Ri...
01 December 2008 /regulation
It's temporary I hope - eventually I must get bored with playing Fieldrunners. Anyone still under the impression that the iPhone is not a real games platform should have a look at this offering from Subatomic studios. It's called Fieldrunners and it's a tower defence game, a genre I'd never heard of. The basic idea is you have to defend your patch...
01 December 2008 After hours
Today I was reading the Netbanker blog about Zions Bank gift planner. I find it very innovative, a new value-added service which helps the bank to make their customers loyal. It helps to list your gifts, plan budget for them and track the spending per item. I think this is the path what should be followed by banks: provide useful tools and service...
01 December 2008 Innovation in Financial Services
It appears that there was a lack of co-ordination between and within police, army and anti-terrorist forces, with none of the NSG located in Mumbai. The fact that they needed to be flown in suggests a total lack of preparedness. There needs to be better co-ordination and placement of forces, along with integration of police and army. In this moder...
01 December 2008 Whatever...
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Mr Somebody Else will not do it We know that the best possible thing we can do right now in the area of digitalization and productivity is to get rid of paper based invoicing - move to structured formats (not e-mail). Savings are massive - to say the least, the environment needs it (2,8m tons of CO2 to be eliminated), learning needs it, the real t...
30 November 2008
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