1013 Results from 2011
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Got a message that I have now written 228 blogs - with 532.835 page views. On average 2.336 each - highest being 8.305 and lowest 897. 166 posts (73% of all) have been viewed over 2.000 and 38 over 3.000. What is interesting is that old posts are still being red on a rather steady pace - so that 25% in the 2.000+ cathegory were written in 200...
21 November 2011 Whatever...
Retired Member
Looking Back 100 years At a recent presentation at a Global Creative Innovation Conference, the audience was challenged to identify three (3) industries that had barely changed systematically over the past 100 years. The resulting list: 1. Religion 2. Education 3. Professional Services Understandably, few would argue that churches, temples and sy...
20 November 2011 /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
Pat Carroll Founder/Executive Chairman at ValidSoft
Happy birthday, Isis! This week sees the one-year anniversary of the initial launch of Isis, the US joint venture formed by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless to create a national mobile payments network that will allow consumers to use their phones to pay for goods at the point-of-sale using NFC technology. The opportunity for NFC take-up i...
18 November 2011 /security Innovation in Financial Services
Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
Without thinking consciously about it, over time core behaviors change producing different instinctive reactions. When a phone rings today, we go to our pocket or purse, not running to a device on a desk or on the wall. When we are interacting with a mobile phone that is not our own or an ATM machine, we'll instinctively touch the screen to naviga...
18 November 2011 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
Electronic bank account management (eBAM), an automated approach to the opening, closing and management of bank accounts seems simple, right? So simple in fact, that when the idea was first introduced a few years ago, corporates were just clamoring for the technology. But, was it a pipe dream? Or just the wrong timing? Why didn’t it gain the tract...
18 November 2011 /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
Notwithstanding the debate over the price (to the taxpayer) and whether anyone seriously considered re-mutualisation, how will Virgin Money nee Northern Rock win over customers? The Great British Bank customer is notoriously quick to complain, glacially slow on switching accounts even with institutions that so many say they loath and despise, altho...
18 November 2011 /retail
Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research
At a recent conference a senior member of the T2S development team said that to date €350m had been spent on development and this was likely to rise to about €400m due to the 9 months delay announced at SIBOS. Let me say it again €400m! When T2S was devised in pre 2006, the world was a very different place and in those days a technology platform to...
18 November 2011 /regulation /sibos Post-Trade Forum
Since the first signs of the Credit Crunch and the debacle of bad asset valuation in the subprime disaster, the role of Credit Rating Agencies has created deep concern for Governments and Regulators alike. The independence that the finance industry always expected of ratings was almost unquestioned before, but not since. This begs the question ho...
17 November 2011 /sibos Post-Trade Forum
The problem. A lot of people would agree when I say that the financial services industry is flawed. There is a fundamental issue that sits behind all these problems, driving the financial crisis as we speak. This problem is that the financial services industry is so closed up that the public has lost trust in the businesses whose activity contribut...
16 November 2011
Even if you’re not directly interested in antipodean fragmentation, Australia will provide a particularly pure data set for what is fast becoming a global phenomenon. This is because (right now at least) there is only one primary and one alternative venue. It’s too early to draw any meaningful conclusions but, as the charts below show, Chi-X Austr...
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