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The PR bluster around the new Michael Lewis book ‘Flash Boys’ is deliberately confusing, yet almost no-one seems to have read it. With the FBI investigating high-frequency trading (HFT), the issues th...
Regulators have budgeted for enormous spend on surveillance technology in the year ahead. On 31 March 2014, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority revealed a 15% increase in its IT budget for 2014-2015,...
The 15th Annual OpRisk Europe Conference hosted by Operational Risk & Regulation Magazine recently took place in London. With record levels of attendees, the conference raised a number of interes...
As I mentioned in the previous blog "When best of breed financial crime and compliance “point solutions” aren’t enough", many companies are increasingly looking to consolidate their various ...
Wearable technology has been the talk, as the “next big thing”, since Google released the prototype of Google Glass. It has been hailed by the tech fanboy club but also been criticized on questions re...
The date was April 17, 1970. Everything was going like clockwork on the Apollo 13 moon mission when all of a sudden it wasn’t. Oxygen tank #2 blew up, causing tank #1 to fail as well. The command modu...
The answer seems to depend on where in the world you are, and who's backing these new entrants. News today out of Australia and China highlights two possible approaches. In Australia, one of the promi...
Regulators in Boston, USA, have issued warnings about the risks involved in Bitcoin purchase, after a second ATM device was set up in the state on 17 March 2014, offering Bitcoins for sale in exchange...
Over the last two years or so, the mobile payments landscape has been abuzz with the supposedly disruptive potential of near field communications (NFC) technology. Predictions have been made about the...
The role of a chief executive at a global transaction bank, I’m inclined to believe, is more complex than that of a conductor of an orchestra, even one with a considerable heritage of musical excellen...
In two of my earlier posts on mobile payments, I talked about disruptive innovations in the mobile payments landscape and how the impending EMV deadlines could impact NFC adoption. In this post, I wil...
I came across an interesting blog post recently about how the untrained human brain is disadvantaged when it comes to recognising or thinking about big numbers. These limitations, and reliance on g...