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As excited that I was writing about the upcoming Apple event on the 4th of October, as sad am I to hear the news, today, the 5th of October. Others have written about the impact Steve Jobs has had on...
Getting good accurate corporate data within an acceptable time frame for the market to make decisions and act you would think was problem that disappeared years ago. The fantastic increase communicati...
Steve Jobs died last night after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. I’m sure I won’t offend fans of Babbage, Turing, Gates and the rest if I say that no one in history has made a greater contributi...
(3/4) This short blog is number three out of a series of four, addressing steps a merchant organization should take to choose & use their payment service provider. Future environment Now it’s time...
So, now we all know the dirty little secret at the heart of the latest alleged 'rogue trader' scandal at UBS. Risk management was ignored. Well, knock me down with a slide ruler. Now, I wrote a rathe...
Genius is a over used word but in describing Steve Jobs it is just not enough. His imagination and will to succeed changed the world. Visionaries are short on the ground these days and the world has l...
Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder and former CEO, has died at the age of 56. Apple has posted this statement on its website: Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazin...
If you need to establish a one-size-fits-all stance on whether high frequency trading (HFT) is good or bad, don’t bother. The recent Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Markets Committee paper ‘...
(2/4) This short blog is number two out of a series of four, addressing steps a merchant organization should take to choose & use their payment service provider. Preparation is paramount Choosin...
When we were at Sibos we enjoyed a team dinner in a local restaurant. As the topics of the day were mulled over somewhere up popped a contentious question "If the Greeks default, and Greece dis...
Not surprisingly the risk focus for the finance industry has mainly concentrated on the front office but this is not even half the story of the actual risks that firms are taking, which inevitably get...
Loyalty professionals have long been using ‘games’ to foster loyal customers, frequent flyer schemes being just one example. In such programmes, the customer is rewarded for his loyalty by progressing...