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Time was when it cost a lot of money to send electronic data securely. Time was when downloading a 50 MB file from one computer to another wasn’t just a “black art” (otherwise known as “data communic...
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...
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,...
As I gear up to participant an Innovation forum- I spent very brief time to collect my thought about the topic which we are going to discuss: Creating a organization culture to encourage Innovation es...
As the low-latency race continues, it’s interesting to see how each element of the processing chain is being evaluated – almost as though it was for the first time. The Internet Protocol has become th...
Or at least a step greener.... We moved our hosting recently to Rackspace and I was intrigued to see a tick box on the order form to plant a tree to offset the carbon produced by the server. Apparentl...
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...
The FSA have proposed this week that the cutover date for MiFID transaction reporting should move from 1st November to 5th November (i.e. to a more conventional Monday go live date) giving more time o...
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...
I decided a few weeks ago to take the plunge into the Mac world as I need to run ProTools for some serious audio work and it just hasn't worked well on Windows. I kind of dreaded the whole setup rout...
Three years ago when people started estimating the impacts and costs of MiFID, the general tendency was to diminish any such estimates as being wildly exaggerated. One of those estimates was about the...
I was reading Chris Skinner’s blog on “How the media changes reality”, and had to pick up on the topic of bullying. Having been a short, bespectacled kid with asthma (as opposed to now being a short,...