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Paul Penrose

The carbon currency card

"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...

21 Jun 2007
Futuristic Banking
Steve Ellis

Tips: Cleaning debris from dealing room technology

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...

21 Jun 2007
Whatever...
A Finextra Member

The longest day and Sibos approaches

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...

21 Jun 2007
Finextra@Sibos
A Finextra Member

To patch or not to patch, that is the question

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 ...

21 Jun 2007
Matt White

Bye-bye Bangkok

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. ...

21 Jun 2007
Elton Cane

Turquoise boats and yellow submarines

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...

20 Jun 2007
MiFID
Elton Cane

First to leave the Finextra50

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 ...

20 Jun 2007
Finextra50 fintech index
A Finextra Member

The I in IT comes first

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...

20 Jun 2007
Matt White

The growth of Microfinance

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...

20 Jun 2007
Matt White

Customer satisfaction?

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...

19 Jun 2007
A Finextra Member

The great UK ukelele shortage, video chat and Second Life

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...

19 Jun 2007
Matt White

Tired in Thailand

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...

19 Jun 2007

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