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“Farmland is going to be one of the best investments of our time,” philanthropist George Soros claimed a couple of years ago. He certainly wasn’t wrong. However, it could be said there is a lack of cl...
Even back in the 1990s when ecommerce was in its infancy, there were always other ways to pay. It’s just that they were rubbish – inconvenient, fraud prone and slow. You could mail a cheque or cash, w...
Once upon a time, a brave young technology consultant was sent on a mission to a bank’s payments shared service center, without knowing what a payment message looked like. From that day forward, I ha...
Despite all the announcements, press briefings and other hullabaloo it looks like the BATS/Chi-X deal is the only one that’s actually going to get done this year. SGX/ASX and LSE/TMX are just two of ...
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Over the past several months, I have had several discussions with clients, both in Spain and in the UK, who are interested in implementing a simple, straight-forward P2P service which would allow two ...
There is a lot of activity in the mobile payments space, with companies of all sizes, including Google, PayPal, Visa, MasterCard (with their recent investment in mFoundry), American Express, retail b...
With an average of only 322 subjects interviewed per country its a very small sample. If the subject group surveyed were early adopters, then this would further skew the data. or if EBAY was where t...
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Before any pick-up game as a kid -- or now for that matter -- we always set up the rules. The more complex the game, the longer everyone must wait to play. But participants in the capital markets cann...
Key to any financial institution is the identification and management of risk. IT compliance certainly fits inside this category, where the implementation of controls to meet compliance also has an ...
Feels like it’s a pretty tough time to be in global banking right now. If it’s not falling volumes then it’s layoffs or, worse still, actors like Bill Nighy bleating on about the need for a Robin Ho...