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Elton Cane

MiFID and electronic signatures

I participated in a roundtable recently held by compliance vendor NetConsent. It was a fairly broad-ranging discussion about how digital certificate and e-signature solutions have evolved and been ado...

07 Aug 2007
MiFID
Elton Cane

CheckFree sale dilutes risk of losing biggest customer

As discussed in this Finextra story from April CheckFree was facing the prospect of losing Bank of America as a customer of its payment processing business. BoA was, and still is as far as I can tell,...

03 Aug 2007
Finextra50 fintech index
Elton Cane

Market data boom part 2 - more numbers

Following on from Chris Pickle's response to the recent TowerGroup study on regulation-driven market data volume growth, it was interesting to note Datamonitor's similar report being published this we...

02 Aug 2007
MiFID
Elton Cane

Pirated Windows on an ATM?

Apparently sighted in Russia, with photo appearing on the EnglishRussia.com blog, this ATM has stopped working and displays a warning that the copy of Windows needs activation. Now this doesn't necess...

01 Aug 2007
Futuristic Banking
Elton Cane

Wall Street plays second fiddle to teenage boys

I heard an interesting snippet the other day about IBM's plans to target the high performance computing needs of Wall St. and the City with blade servers based on its powerful Cell processor. IBM deve...

10 Jul 2007
Elton Cane

Selling bits of Reuters and Thomson

Reuters and Thomson may sell off some of their overlapping products before the acquisition deal is finalised, according to some reports. Thomson One and Reuters Trader, and First Call and Multex are ...

27 Jun 2007
Finextra50 fintech index
Elton Cane

Turquoise boats and yellow submarines

MiFID has already had a huge impact in Europe - particularly on the conference and event management scene. And as my fellow bloggers Chrisses Skinner and Pickles have been regularly pointing out here...

20 Jun 2007
MiFID
Elton Cane

First to leave the Finextra50

With market and sector indices, constituent companies come and go. We knew when we formulated the Finextra50 Index that we would no doubt soon be making adjustments due to the amount of M&A going ...

20 Jun 2007
Finextra50 fintech index
Elton Cane

SEPA testing high on the agenda

With SIA-SSB and EBA Clearing putting the final touches on the SEPA Services for STEP2 over the next month, banks are gearing up to begin testing credit transfers from July, with testing windows for d...

25 May 2007
EBAday
Elton Cane

Predictions for changes in the Finextra50

The constituent companies of the Finextra50 index at its launch this week comprise a momentary snapshot of an industry in a rapid state of flux. If we had conducted the same index compiling exercise j...

11 May 2007
Finextra50 fintech index
Elton Cane

HSBC Australia shoots the messenger

Banks and their customers have very different ideas about what constitutes "sensitive data", and what communication should take place if data security is compromised. And one bank in particu...

04 May 2007
Information Security
Elton Cane

Chasing the US core banking market

After many years of talking about the need for core banking system replacement among US banks, it seems that foreign and domestic vendors are finally making some headway. But if the predicted boom in ...

23 Apr 2007
Trends in Financial Services

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