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Technology brings as many problems as it solves solutions much the same way experts often confess to knowing more and more about less and less. As one passes through life this statement becomes more...
Best execution is one of the most critical challenges in trade order management, as we all know. It involves a lot of steps including prioritisation of factors, analysis and selection of execution ven...
I walk past the Royal Festival Hall daily and have been relieved to see the renovation work by Allies and Morrison architects has managed to keep the character of the place. I've also been meaning to ...
I was sent an e-mail today with the cryptic subject line: Behold sex panther! What could it all mean? Probably a reference to some dodgy video porno site or compromised Web server, I thought. So,...
It seems that September was the month for contact-less payments. Barclaycard launched the three-way OnePulse, touted as a panacea for Londoners as it combines a credit card with a contact-less payment...
Day 4 of Sibos is a Thursday, which of course means the Thursday-night Sibos party. It’s also the day for summing-up conversations with the attendees – “Well, what do you think?” The most-asked ques...
The UK Government has announced the appointment of Tim Jones as chief executive of the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority Jones, a former chief executive of retail banking at NatWest and the man beh...
From a corporate point of view isn’t SEPA all about being sensible? As usual I find myself jet lagged and awake at 2am following another SIBOS and I look back at all the topics I have been involved wi...
The China Banking Regulatory Commission recently reported Chinese banking industry numbers and for a brief comparison: Profits: 1H2007 - 268.97 billion yuan (35.8 billion U.S. dollars) FY2003 – 32.28...
It's quite something isn't it - grid technology - the concept of a super computer at your disposal, able to provide high performance computing resources to your entire IT estate. However, rather than ...
After the last few hectic days at Sibos here in Boston it was a delight to sit down in the closing plenary and rest my rapidly fading voice and tired feet. There is always an inclination not to take i...
Rafat at paidcontent has pointed to information emerging from a Thomson investor day that shared info on the likely shape of the business after merger (acquisition) with Reuters. While Reuters will ...