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Video extravaganza

A round-up of interesting videos knocking about on the web. Anything worth watching of interest to Finextra community members.

Paul Penrose - Finextra - London | 30/09/2009 | 4376 views

High Performace Trading on steroids

Feargal O'Sullivan, managing director of high performance messaging at Nyse Technologies shows off the pre-release Nehalem-EX Processor running a Nyse trading simulation at the Intel Developers Forum 2009. In the demo, O'Sullivan describes how Nyse simplified the hardware from many servers and interconnects to a single 4-CPU Platform based on the ... Tags: Dealing rooms, Trade execution

Paul Penrose - Finextra - London | 25/09/2009 | 4707 views | 15 comments

Will that be cash, plastic or iPhone?

Hip-to-the-moment TechFlash blogger John Cook shows just how easy it is to use your iPhone to buy a grande non-fat mocha in this video shot at the Seattle Columbia Center Starbucks. So why not just use a card? John looks slightly confused by this question, before retorting: "Because its so cool to use an iPhone man to buy your goods." That's so... Tags: Payments, Retail banking

Peter Roberts - UCL - London | 14/09/2009 | 2513 views | 1 comment

Banking in the future - as seen from 1969

The BBC have put a priceless collection of items from Tomorrow's World online. If you've not heard of it, this used to be essential viewing on BBC1. It was a weekly look at science and technology which managed to cover all manner of exciting new developments without the obligatory dumbing down you get now. I believed it all - computers would do all...

Paul Penrose - Finextra - London | 22/07/2009 | 2727 views | 2 comments

One trillion dollars visualised

Mint's online lifestyle mag does its bit to remind us all how deep in the mire we are with the snazzy 'One Trillion Dollars Visualised' animation. In layman's terms, that one trillion dollars would buy you a $3 latte every day for 900 million years. And that's only one-tenth of the current bail-out. Time to wake up and smell the coffee, people. Tags: Retail banking, Wholesale banking

Paul Penrose - Finextra - London | 18/03/2009 | 6083 views

Does Jon Stewart use inside information?

Having mopped the floor with Jim Cramer and CNBC, the Daily Show's Jon Stewart has turned his attention to the practice of short-selling in this typically barbed report from regular correspondent Samantha Bee (AKA the Money Honey Bee). For a comedian, Stewart's done a lascerating job in exposing Wall Street hypocrisy and cant. But is he trading on... Tags: Dealing rooms, Wholesale banking