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Archive for: November, 2007

Alan Goodrich - Goodrich analytiX Ltd - Nairobi | 29/11/2007 | 3829 views | 2 comments

To IP, or Not To IP..?

After yesterday's blog sparring session between Messrs Skinner and Goldman, I thought I'd add my own 2p worth to the debate and risk being accused of not reading or understanding either gentleman properly!Those who have followed my blogs on the subject of innovation in banking will not be surprised to learn that I fall more into the corner ... Tags: Online banking, Retail banking

Elton Cane - Independent - Brisbane | 28/11/2007 | 2804 views

Hedge fund buys Argentinian mountain

I attended an interesting roundtable held by Omgeo this morning. Kicking off the discussion, Omgeo's industry relations manager Tony Freeman reported a few things he'd heard at a recent ISITC event that supported his view that globalisation and diversification of increasingly complex tradeable instrument types is taking the market into new ... Tags: Wholesale banking

Paul Penrose - Finextra - London | 23/11/2007 | 3485 views | 1 comment

Mobile payments gather momentum

Royal Bank of Scotland is to conduct internal staff trials of mobile payment technology using MasterCard's PayPass contactless system. News of the pilot comes the day after the card scheme announced plans for a public trail of the technology in downtown Oslo with DnB Nor and Telenor. Field trials have also been scheduled for Japan. The latest i... Tags: Payments, Retail banking

Colin Day - SunGard - London | 22/11/2007 | 2457 views

Banks are at risk if we dont keep up mortgages repayments

So we have seen some high profile casualties in the subprime triggered credit crunch from both the corporation and personnel perspective and I am sure we will see further cases in the coming weeks and months as more banks write off ever increasing amounts related to their mortgage business and as the true size of these write offs become clear as ha... Tags: Risk & regulation

Cornelius Nandyal - Hexaware - Frankfurt | 22/11/2007 | 2401 views

Step in the right direction!!

Latest report from McKinsey “ The New Power Brokers: How Oil, Asia, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity - Are Shaping Global Capital Markets”, presents interesting insights into future of capital markets and also changes in source of capital, intermediaries and users of capital.According to the report, hedge fund assets under management hav... Tags: Trade execution, Retail banking