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Archive for: October, 2009

Elizabeth Lumley - Finextra - London | 29/10/2009 | 2143 views

Mifid was written with a paranoia of what brokers do

The title of my blog is a quote from a new Finextra webcast It pays to play - opportunities and challanges for internal crossing, available now on an on-demand basis. Anyone agree with that quote? Here's another one: "The systematic internaliser rules were constructed by people who really didn't understand how the markets work." Overly harsh, or... Tags: Dealing rooms

Elizabeth Lumley - Finextra - London | 28/10/2009 | 2951 views

SocGen, HSBC and Unicredit talk dealer portals

Finextra is hosting a live webcast, along with Caplin, on Tuesday, 10 Nov. at 2:30 GMT. Resgiter here. The live and interactive webcast, Buyers' market - single-dealer portals and courting the online client, will allow views to watch a debate between three major financial firms - HSBC, Societe Generale and Unicredit. Along with Paul Caplin from C... Tags: Dealing rooms

Elizabeth Lumley - Finextra - London | 26/10/2009 | 1992 views | 3 comments

There's safety in contactless payments

Finextra recently sat down with Richard Allen, principal consultant at Consullt Hyperion. The firm recently set up a dedicated unit looking at card fraud and all the 'scary things' being perpetrated by hackers. The video is here. Although Allen does talk about the success of chip and pin and services like 'Verified by Visa' in reducing card fraud... Tags: Security, Payments

Elizabeth Lumley - Finextra - London | 22/10/2009 | 2120 views

What happens when you buy the cart , but not the horse?

With the Caplin Xaqua application earlier in the week, and now this low-latency network supplied by Colt - word on the street is that the industry will be seeing a lot more IT-related projects emerging from Nomura. Independant developers and freelance programmers are a chatty bunch. Nomura got a sweet bargain when it acquired the European and Asia... Tags: Dealing rooms, Wholesale banking

Elizabeth Lumley - Finextra - London | 20/10/2009 | 2601 views

The translation divide

Fresh off the news that Nomura required female executives to attend 'tea making' courses - now comes the news that the Asian bank has banned 'gay' nail polish. Before the Gay and Lesbian Alliance start picketing their offices in Canary Wharf it seems this edict was a result of a poor English translation asking staff to refrain from wearing brightl... Group: Whatever...