At this month's Cass-Capco Institute Risk Conference in London, Finextra spoke with David Aldrich, managing director, Bank of New York Mellon. In this video he discusses operational risk considerations for hedge funds, the role of regulators, and how the industry is reacting to the current liquidity problems.
 

In this video interview, SmartsStream CEO Ken Archer talks to Finextra about last year's aborted IPO plans, the acquisition by DIFC Investments, opportunities in the Middle East, and the increasing demand for hosted software offerings in the financial services sector.
 

 

Lee Hodgkinson, CEO, SWX Europe, talks in this video about the host of new competitors to traditional exchanges, such as Instinet Chi-X, Turquoise and Nyfix; the diminishing dependence of the buy-side on the sell-side for order execution; and the gradual seeping of transparent order flow into dark pools of liquidity.
 

 

Anne Ambrose, worldwide director, brokerage, trading and investment management at HP, talks in this video about the change in mindset of capital markets firms regarding their environmental impact. She examines rising power costs and their increased visibility; the ergonomic, economic and green impact of new trading floor designs; and new developments in the data centre that promise to reduce the carbon footprint of financial markets firms
 

 

Marc Bayle, T2S project manager at the European Central Bank, spoke at Finexpo about the benefits that Target2 Securities hopes to provide European market participants. In this video he outlines: the challenges for CSDs who will need to adapt their business models; the current reaction from banks and CSDs involved in the consultation process; Spain's first movements toward process harmonisation; and the challenges the ECB faces if it is to build the infrastructure to go live in 2013.
 

 

Phil Enness, global solutions manager for financial markets data management at IBM, previews his upcoming presentation at Finexpo City Technology Strategies. In this interview he talks about IBM's work to help clients achieve low latency and better reliability for critical data feeds, including the Options Price Reporting Authority feed, as well as investment priorities and key infrastructure challenges for capital markets front office operations.
 

 

Stavros Siokos, Citigroup's head of European AES, spoke to Finextra about how algorithmic trading is changing: sell side distribution models, the impact of MiFID in Europe, evaluation methods for algorithmic performance and the technical challenges of dealing with exponential data growth.
 

 

James Gardner, head of innovation and reasearch at Lloyds TSB, spoke to Finextra ahead of the Finextra Innovation in Financial Services forum being held on Thursday 8 November.
 

 

Video footage of the Fintech M&A panel discussion featuring the leading figures from the inter-dealer broking business: Lee Amaitis, CEO, BGC Partners; Grant Biggar, Head of Creditex Europe; Chip Carver, CEO, Swapswire; Patrick Combes, CEO, Tradition; and Mark Yallop, COO, ICAP.
 

 

John Slater is the founder and CEO of core banking system provider SlaterLabs. A former IBM employee, he started his own company, ICT, which took over the rights to a retail core system being built by IBM and the Spanish rural banks. He then sold the company to Temenos, and the system became TCB. After working with Temenos and completing his non-compete period, he started SlaterLabs in late 2005, with the ambitious aim of commoditising the banking industry by developing a system that allows banks to evaluate, purchase, implement, enhance and upgrade their software over the Internet.
 

 

Hansjörg Nymphius, chairman of the Euro Banking Association, spoke to Finextra at the EBAday event in Rome about the association's current activities, and its plans to be more inclusive of corporates and non-banks in its discussions about the evolving financial landscape in Europe.
 

 

Tony Mackay, President and MD of Instinet Europe, spoke to Finextra at this week's Exchange Forum event in London. In this interview he shares his views on the differences between Instinet's Chi-X platform and the imminent Project Turquoise initiative, the future market share of traditional exchanges in Europe, and collaborative approaches to sharing access to liquidity.
 

 

The Digital Money Forum is an annual event promoting information sharing and debate about electronic money in all its evolving forms. The event is in its tenth year, and organiser David Birch spoke to Finextra about what has changed in that time, and what are the latest issues being debated by banks, card schemes, academics, vendors and mobile phone operators.
 

 

According to Gerard Hartsink, chairman of the European Payments Council, this single euro payments area vision can only be achieved through active collaboration between all stakeholders on the European and on the national level of the EU-27 member states.