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"Imagine a country where carbon becomes a new currency. We carry bank cards that store both pounds and carbon points. When we buy electricity, gas and fuel, we use our carbon points, as well as p...
Next time a trader drops his avocado and bean sprout wrap on his keyboard - or one of those private equity boys inadvertently squashes a Quail's egg with his mouse - help is at hand. Just stick it in...
It's the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, which means that for us here in London in a few days time the nights will be drawing in - and of course it also means we're getting closer to Sibos...
Interesting article from Ryan Naraine about hackers and Microsoft's practice of silently fixing vulnerabilities it finds in code. Microsoft claim that by not drawing attention to new flaws this makes ...
So, the Temenos Client forum is over for another year. It has been an informative couple of days with some interesting discussions about where banking is going and how technology vendors can react. ...
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...
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 ...
I’ve just been in Paris, and attended the plenary meeting of MiFID Forum France (M2F). It’s interesting to see how much attention that they are paying to the data issues that MiFID is creating. Whic...
Microfinance seems to have grabbed the attention of a lot of people at the Temenos Client Forum. Accion International are using eMerge on T24 as their technology platform to help bring commercial len...
This morning at the TCF we heard from CEO Andreas Andreades. Naturally he was in bullish mood following the Metavante tie up and takeover of German outfit ACTIS.BSP. Both of these deals provide a rout...
On Saturday I was way out west having some rather nice local ale in a pub slightly let down by the presence of a large screen telly in one corner. It was showing BBC News 24 and the large serious new...
Your trusty Finextra man is currently in Bangkok for the Temenos Client Forum. Forgive me if the blogs from the event are incoherent rambles but a sleepless 12 hour flight followed by an evening spent...