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Just a little note for writers or those who hesitate

The US has been drafting laws covering internet copyright, libel, protection of sources etc. The UK libel laws are somewhat fierce but I don't know whether the finextra.com gives any protection. There...

03 Nov 2009
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A Finextra Member

The Corporate Tsunami is coming

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...

02 Nov 2009
Iosif Itkin

Consolidated tape and cost of surveillance systems

There is a set of vendor solutions available already to provide EBBO. Technology development and competition will enable buy-side to obtain a reasonable benchmark for the best-execution. On the other ...

01 Nov 2009
MiFID
Sriram Natarajan

Watch lists!

There are so many watch lists maintained across the world. The FATF maintains one, FINCEN, and so does Interpol. Reportedly the FBI keeps getting 1600 new 'suggestions' everyday for its list! See here...

01 Nov 2009
Paul Penrose

Finextra Community sets up Twitter A-list

Micro-blogging site Twitter has begun rolling out its new list-building feature which enables users to curate themed lists of Twitter accounts. For example, you could create a list of celebrity accoun...

30 Oct 2009
Finance 2.0
A Finextra Member

Incompatibility in card technology? Not really.

I decided to write this after seeing a summary of Aite Group’s report concerning U.S. cardholders and their experience abroad. It states that “The promise of ubiquitous card payments acceptance falls ...

30 Oct 2009
Business Knowledge for IT
Bo Harald

Paper invoices have NO future

It is evident - paper invoices will disappear from the business to business and business to government sectors and then later in practise also in the business to consumer/government to citizen area.

30 Oct 2009
A Finextra Member

Crossing The Darwinian Line

I found an article in The Times just now that I thought was somewhat unsettling. For those of you that do not want to wade through the entire article, here is the crux of the issue: “Thanks to a new ...

30 Oct 2009
Paul Penrose

Crunch - the game for utter bankers

We missed this first time around, but it should definitely be on the Christmas shopping list for all self-respecting Finextra Community members. Crunch - the game for utter bankers is a devious card g...

30 Oct 2009
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A Finextra Member

Islamic banking and finance; just another type of banking

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...

30 Oct 2009
A Finextra Member

XBRL Update

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...

30 Oct 2009
XBRL Discussion Group
A Finextra Member

My Love Affair With Smart Cards

I note that since the wimps who don't like to hear the truth about their dogdgy products bleated I've been banned if I mention the word mobile. So today I'm going to tell you about my little fling wit...

30 Oct 2009
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