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In addition to the US squatter the European Squatters are hard at work. A number of permutations of the potential LloydsTSB / HBOS merger have also been snapped up. However there are a few combination...
...but how? In one of my earlier posts, I mentioned that change needs to occur in order for SEPA to succeed. Over the course of the past few days at Sibos, it has become even clearer to me that thr...
A piece on The Register discusses how two well-known security researchers have scrapped a talk discussing some interesting new critical holes impacting anyone using a web browser. They cancelled fol...
Sibos can sometimes appear to the outsider like an excuse for a big party - in fact a succession of parties with the free cocktails seemingly flowing from lunchtime onwards. I recall from Copenhagen s...
Before supplier financing, one of the few options open to the supplier to fund their business activity was factoring – a process that is often heavily paper-based, involves changes to the payment pro
SWIFT benefits for coporates are clear but the practicalities are being defined When SWIFT opened up its messaging services and network to corporates, it was initially aimed at the top 2000 global org...
Another small change for the better - our market data pages are colour coded green and red where appropriate to indicate positive or negative values. Seems to be a lot of red at the moment.... Also I'...
Mobile phones support secure (encrypted) data transfer on the internet (the same as is used on computers). So the level of security for the internet traffic is at the very least equal to computers. F...
FXMarketSpace was born out of the general belief, current a few years ago, that markets such as FX would "evolve" towards the exchange-based model of equities, and that this somehow represen...
I see we're giving away a mountain bike on our Green Zone quiz as part of this year's Sibos bash. Sibos? Green? Don't get me started... the first time I attended I was shocked by the amount of materia...
Apple are in a tricky position - their iPhone apps store on iTunes was something brave and new. It works well - and I like the general idea - but from day one there was some controversy over the quali...
The drying up of liquidity and lack of lending – the result of the credit crunch - is continuing to massively impact on corporates that require funding for growth or continue trading where their paym