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The news that SWIFT has been organising meetings between payment banks and several large Corporates in their Le Hulpe offices could be seen as great news by many hoping for streamlining in the Eurozon...
Those that are regular readers of my blogs will recognise the news today that the government is splitting up the bailed out banks, which was always my preferred way of getting a return for the tax pay...
Anthony Hilton made a statement in his Evening Standard column that the world's corporates will be looking to refinance massively as the global economic crisis begins to subside. We are both on the sa...
At a recent Mazars seminar in the City the changes in accounting and tax treatment in the UK and France were presented to an expert audience but it was the alternative virtues of Islamic banking as op...
For everyone that has read the XBRL Blog " XBRL is coming in a big way" please re read the comments. These comments have flushed out valuable information and status as well as underlying the...
A few years ago any thought that Tesco would be a potential buyer of Northern Rock would have been, well, ludicrous. We live in unusual times and a deal to sell Northern Rock to Tesco does not look ou...
Tesco are moving into Banking and this can only be great news for the Banking sector and customers. The word trust has been lost with existing banks and by introducing a trusted brand like Tesco into ...
The DTCC/SWIFT/XBRL initiative will I am sure, be a success and be a springboard to a new age of data standards. However, there remains an important issue that needs attention and that is, to protect ...
Let's be clear about XBRL and start by saying it's been around for more than a decade. Having had a very slow birth, after a prolonged gestation period but now the time is here when XBRL will be recog...
You would have though that trade reporting would be a simple thing with the regulatory organisation specifying what they wanted reported, by what medium, by whom and when but this is all too simplisti...
There are certainly plenty of positive noises coming out of SIBOS and a real feel that the worst of the financial and economic crisis is over but is this flag waving just a bit to soon and overly opti...
Recent surveys appear to show that the buy side and investors are getting a real raw deal with MiFID. Wealth managers are feeling the pinch with so many new trading venues to connect to even to have a...