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FPL enters the ring

What great news that FPL has put their hat in the ring to bring the consolidated tape to market. They had such terriffic success with establishing FIX and are one of the few organisations that has ach...

18 Nov 2010
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Getting a better deal for the investor

Since MiFID the EU markets have changed forever and we all have to get used to the new order, however, change often brings about unforeseen problems and business opportunities leading to unintended co...

10 Nov 2010
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False Economy at SIBOS

It's popular to have a good kick at the nearest banker as the world struggles to recover from the financial crisis but SIBOS was weird because so many people were talking about the crisis as just a ba...

05 Nov 2010
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Join the XBRL Group on FINEXTRA and be part of the future

This is a blatant advert for new members to join the FINEXTRA XBRL Group. Discussions at SIBOS has led to me building a EU initiative to compliment the USA/SWIFT/XBRL project. It's not worth waiting t...

27 Oct 2010
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The day stockbroking died

SIBOS may have just witnessed a day that put the first nail in 'execution only stockbroking'. peterevans one of the smaller software houses is demonstrating its new app, which basically negates the ne...

27 Oct 2010
Finextra@Sibos
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SIBOS getting 'appy'

This year SIBOS in an 'appy' mood. With a number of vendors demoing apps, in particular, I was really impressed with peterevans and Information Mosaic (IM) who have both produced great apps that will...

27 Oct 2010
Finextra@Sibos
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Lets hear it for the news

A lasting memory of SIBOS this year is the fantastic job that FINEXTRA has done in bringing up to date news, informative interviews, comments and some real entertainment during very long days. Nick Ha...

27 Oct 2010
Finextra@Sibos
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SEPA finally getting some teeth

The news that SEPA is going to be forced down the throats of Banks is a very welcome move all be it several years late. Banks anr like Turkeys never voting for Xmas and the embarrasing phoney war that...

22 Oct 2010
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What about a SWIFT App on a mobile phone!

At this weeks annual corporate actions conference in New York a presentationby Gerrard Bermingham from Information Mosaic extolled the benefits of mobile technology carrying corporate action data to t...

14 Oct 2010
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This is the start of something big

At the recent annual Corporate Action conference in New York this week the hot topic was the significant progress being made by the DTCC and SWIFT with XBRL to standardise Issuer data. The audience wa...

14 Oct 2010
XBRL Discussion Group
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Rod Stewart City presentation myth or real?

A few weeks back i was asked to give a short and informal presentation for Volante and the opening of their London office. It so happens that night i was due at a Rod Stewart concert and it got me thi...

28 Sep 2010
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Financial services getting right for once

Close Asset Management UK are the latest fund manager to use the EMX Message System now fully integrated within Euroclear. The links to Fund Settle provide a real international settlment solution for ...

28 Sep 2010

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