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The news from Visa yesterday moving forward with EMV in the US should not be that surprising - it was inevitable that the move had to happen and it needed a major industry leader to stand up and take ...
Regular readers of this blog will know that I have been writing about eating the US EMV elephant for some time. Yesterday’s announcement from Visa may just be the big push the US market needs for it t...
Oven mittens, anyone? Investors dropped stocks like hot potatoes around the world on Monday, the first day of trading since Standard & Poor’s historic downgrade of U.S. debt. And if you’re going t...
Future Strategic Considerations Strategic considerations at the forefront of the financial modeling industry in the next decade include: 1. Web 2.0 2. A dedicated marketplace 3. Better modeling pro...
Why Web 2.0 will find Financial Modeling next A recent piece in the National Journal by Tankersley and Hirsh, “Neo-Voodoo Economics”, encouraging American’s to think more boldly about new growth and m...
Within the US$1+ trillion global professional services industry, the finance sector has recently looked susceptible to a growing chorus of start-ups looking to strategically rethink finance’s core...
A curious client recently asked – “Couldn’t financial modeling risk be diminished by introducing a Quality Assurance Review Panel (“QARP”)?” It was a simple, pragmatic question that left me momentari...
A recent list of the World's Top Tools for Learning is a stark reminder of how rapidly the educational ecosystem has moved beyond the traditional classroom. Most young professionals seem to have readi...
I hear that some dealers are suggesting that they will not become members of CCPs which are not deemed to be robust. This brings some interesting questions to the table. A good start is that dealers h...
Gold is heading north again this morning. As the dollar weakens and there is a flight to safe-haven “hard” assets, gold has broken through the USD 1,700/oz barrier and continues to rise. Last week p...
It’s been interesting to watch the European MTFs jockeying for position over the summer. Seems like Chi-X is continuing to grow its market share of all European indices fairly steadily, whilst the re...
Over the last few years that I have worked in Sales and I introduce my company and ask a simple CRM adoption question of the sales team and their chosen CRM system. These are some of the more interest...