The IT and Infrastructure heads at Royal London Asset Management talked with Finextra about their migration to a virtual server environment at this month's TSAM conference in London. RLAM engaged the entire company in an IT culture that saw the asset manager take 28 physical servers off-line.

Wondering what it's like at EBAday, the annual payments conference and exhibition run by Finextra and the Euro Banking Association? Review the video highlights played at the end of the closing plenary session in Vienna 2009.

Stephen Friend of Daiwa Capital Markets talks with Finextra about the growth of its synthetic prime brokerage business. The bank plans on hiring 300 additional staff for its equities and derivatives business in Hong Kong alone.

Nomura's Andrew Bowley talks with Finextra about the relaunch of its NX crossing network as a dark pool, multilateral trading facility. Due to go live on January 25th, and born from the ashes of the Lehman Brothers/Baikal project, the NX MTF dark pool will rely on established liquidity sources.

The Global Trust Council is a non-profit organisation working with governments and businesses in a bid to create an international legal framework that will help protect digital identities.

The Future Foundation has conducted research on behalf of mobile technology vendor Monitise. The report claims that 62% of those surveyed in the UK now interact with their bank online. The precentage that now use their mobile phones for banking has risen to 5.6% of those surveyed, up from 4.3% last year.

First direct's Natalie Cowen, acting head of brand, sat down with Finextra to talk about the UK bank's recently launched social networking site.

Nick Ogden, CEO of Voice Commerce, talks with Finextra about becoming a new PI, post-PSD. Meanwhile, the firm faces 12 to 18 months of "disentangling a large business from a large bank" before they can complete on their bid to buy RBS Worldpay.

Steven Murdoch, researcher in the Security Group at the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, talks with Finextra about the vulnerabilities of the CAP Protocol.

Isabelle Jenkins, Financial Services Technology partner at PwC, talks with Finextra about the 'massively complex' IT administration project going on at the former Lehman Brothers and how that project has broader implications for the financial industry at large.

Finextra speaks with Steve Grob, director at Fidessa, about the changing state of European exchanges and MTFs.

Finextra recently sat down with Clare Porter, senior vice president of the Infinity unit and Scott Coffing, COO of SunGard's Corporations Business. The video includes excerpts of an interview with Porter and Coffing where they discuss the vendor's 'private cloud' and ecosystem offerings and what 'Software-as-a-service' really means.

Richard Allen, principal consultant at Consult Hyperion, talks with Finextra about why a recent 23% drop in card fraud may just be a 'blip'. However, contactless and mobile payments are well protected against fraud.

Matt Rowsell, head of business development at RBS WorldPay, talks with Finextra about conducting the bank's first ever contactless transactions on the Liverpool bus network.

Richard Martin, business security consultant at Financial Fraud Action UK, spoke with Finextra about how banks and consumers can protect themselves in light of a 55% spike in online banking fraud in the UK.

HSBC's Nolan Adarve, senior regional product manager, Payments & Cash Management, Asia Pacific, talks with Finextra about the bank's payments business in that region. Adarve says that regional clients are demanding bank-agnostic connectivity for payments processing, while Asia monitors the progress of Sepa in Europe.

Amanda Westwood spoke to Finextra about the ongoing Swift2015 programme that is looking to formulate new strategies for Swift to ensure the co-operative stays relevant as markets change and messaging becomes commoditised.

Deutsche Bank's Sepa Connector is one of a selection of Sepa outsourced systems available in the marketplace. Michael Mueller, MD of Wholesale Solutions, Global Transaction Banking at Deutsche Bank and Nigel Turner, business development director, Payments at Logica talk about gearing up for SDD and why collaboration between payments systems providers is the way forward.

Herbert-David Bordier, head of Swift Transversal Project at BNP Paribas, talks with Finextra about implementing an end-to-end message monitoring system from Systar to support its Swift platform.

Masayuki Tagai, chief manager, Global Network Management Department, Transaction Services Division at The Bank of Toykyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, speaks with Finextra about co-existance in the standards world, a possible sunset date for ISO 15022 and why the credit crisis is driving standards adoption.