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Interesting rumbles in the market about the high cost of trading information. Some exchanges are claiming that MiFID will not only fragment liquidity but will also increase the cost of market data. ...
Fidelity National Information Services has disclosed an embarrassing instance of data theft by an employee of its Certegy payments processing subsidiary. The misappropriated information included names...
Ok, not really a banking angle to this. Lewis Page was an armed forces bomb-disposal operator from 2001 to 2004. He supported the UK mainland police and he clearly knows his stuff concerning things th...
The McKinsey Quarterly has bagged an interview with Diane Schueneman, the head of Merrill Lynch's Global Infrastructure Solutions unit. The new division combines the firm's IT and operations arms. Sc...
Rich Marin, the embattled head of Bear Stearns asset management arm, was forced to step aside Friday in the wake of the near-collapse of two hedge funds associated with his division. He remains with t...
In which activity are Romania, Ireland and the UK current leaders in Europe, and Italy and Spain are bottom of the league? If you have been following the financial press coverage, you will not doubt h...
Answer: When it’s your vertical silo. It’s been interesting to watch the Silo Wars. Considering that most equities markets are predominantly domestic, it would generally sound like a good thing if th...
Interesting to see banks jumping on the green bandwagon. Some have been displaying their green credentials for some years, such as Smile. Have a Google for Smile poo pyramid and you should find this ...
HSBC, the 2006 winner of the FT's sustainable banking awards, has committed a further US$90 million over five years to reduce the bank’s impact on the environment through a series of initiatives, incl...
Kevin Anderson reports for the Guardian IT on an exercise organised by the Economic and Social Research Council to consider what sort of world the interplay and advances in nanotechnology, genomics,...
I remember reading ITAnalysis about research that the needs of customers for advanced trading functionality will mean high costs for banks over the next few years. Significantly, the sell side's techn...
Recently I landed on this blog..Is manufacturing the future of banking? The Banking world is undergoing and major shift in the way banks have to function and compete in an evironment where the regulat...