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Just back from a two week trip around Asia and Australia that took in dark pool seminars in Hong Kong and Singapore and attendance at the FPL conference in Sydney. In my absence, it seems like the Eu...
Pay Attention! - The title of one episode of the National Geographic Channel’s series called Test Your Brain. The progamme explores how our attention selects the things we see, hear and interact with...
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement When the business environment is changing very quickly, or when we are under pressure, one of the easiest mistakes to make is ...
The MiFID review as expected is going to clobber the existing market causing massive changes in the execution and post execution of trades. Many people outside of trading will be very worried about th...
As you are no doubt aware, the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) has a number of regulatory actions it can use to ensure compliance with the Data Protection Act (DPA), not least of which are its ...
This October, it’s 25 years since ‘Big Bang’ and with the current global financial and economic disaster inflicting everyone on the planet and protests against capitalism worldwide, a reflection on th...
A clutch of recent news stories makes all too clear the opportunities and the challenges of the mobile payments revolution. First up, research from Barclays Corporate forecasts that m-commerce in the...
With Visa’s recently announced U.S. EMV initiative, massive infrastructure changes loom on the horizon for card acquirers. To ready themselves for this change, acquirers can think about breaking down ...
Recently I've been discussing with bankers, economists, strategists and futurists the future of the banking industry. At a time when we've got the likes of the"Occupation of Wall St" (#OWS)...
On the 17th Oct the BBC ran a programe called 'RBS; Inside the bank that ran out of money'. I downloaded the prog from the BBC I player and watched a very good and insightful documentary on a classic...
As if we needed reminding, mobile is going wild. All the stats you care to look at show that the use of mobile devices is exploding. BRC/Google report that mobile retail search volumes are up 168% ye...
The last Post-Trade Forum debate was all about the pros and cons of outsourcing v internalisation. A cross industry panel of outsourcing experts debated with an audience of equal experts and thrashed ...