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I thoroughly endorse the European Payments Council’s call for the EU authorities to get behind SEPA. However, as duly noted by Gerard Hartsink, public authorities – which focus predominantly on domes...
We've been busy little bees here at Finextra Towers. The latest update to the Finextra site is a revamp of the private profile page that Community Members see when they log on. In some regards it's s...
Recent reports abound of consumers email account being phished and American and Egyptian authorities arresting dozens of people in an online fraud crackdown for phishing scams. Its time to revisit t...
To be a successful online trader you need to keep calm and rational but it can be a stressful business and sometimes emotions get the better of people. So Philips Electronics and ABN Amro have come up...
Okay, I realize that unless you are a perpetual movie geek like me, you may not remember Sally Field's much maligned Academy Award acceptance speech ( I've happily included a clip so you can view it ...
Corporate inertia, quarterly capitalism and techno-hype have together created a rather sad overall picture of how digital services have been introduced. Far too often in the past digital services have...
Really, John, ABS CDO's and CDO's squared were so complex that noone had any hope of understanding them ? and this is proven, in that modeling them on "one of the fastest computers in the world&q...
The word is out that those guys in the Google group UK Government Data Developers have got it right with their clouding up the government data. Thats not cloudy as in murky, but the Amazon and other c...
Interesting, if brief, talk about ‘How are firms can capitalising on high frequency trading?' at the FIX Protocol quarterly meeting last night. The panel (whom I can't quote unless I jump through some...
So, there are two matching engines claiming 100mks latency: Gatelab and MillenniumIT. This post is neither about arguing whether industry and especially buy-side really needs such enormous achievement...
It is very easy to make things difficult but very difficult to make things easy. As a result we see that many service are not the least user-friendly - not in design - not in language - too complic
We've added a new section and a quick link on the right hand side of the home page called, "Follow us". This enables you to link through to our Twitter account and also to sign up for our da...