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I work with a great bunch of folks here at SunGard, every Monday morning, without fail, we congregate around the coffee machine and catch-up on our weekend activities. Today, for once in my life! I ha...
This story is about a victim of criminal identity theft. The victim is a trucker who discovered that his identity had been stolen when his commercial driver’s license was suspended because the thief w...
I went to a book publishing party yesterday. Wonderful book about interior design and life by extraordinary personality. Lots of cultural types around and good food. And as I am kind of known as Mr. e...
I was invited to attend the International Trader Forum in Amsterdam this week. The event was interesting because it brought together senior executives from both the buy-side and sell-side to debate t...
Building trust, both internally and externally, is the mantra of the asset management community today. What does this mean? For any initiative more reporting and more cross checking. As the communi...
I first did a blog on Do you Protect Your PIN at ATM on this site last winter. In it I stated: "The most common ways that criminals obtain a PIN at an ATM are by looking over your shoulder (defe...
The issue of how to make the migration to a truly customer centric organization is often agonized over. While many are keen to see that goal materialize, there are just as many who feel organizational...
I’ve said it before, use upper and lower case, use number and letter combinations and when possible, if the website allows it, use special characters. It has been documented that “Adding just one capi...
It allows corporate finance to demonstrate its products in real time and with live data in its clients’ offices; it is a conduit for research information; it’s tool for distributing trader insight. B
Previously on “Why don’t you become” (here): people put their money in wallets (be those banks, or just stashes). Networks then pierce a hole in these wallets and create a widespread network that all
After a historically brief spell of about 200 years, Asia is once again acknowledged as the economic growth engine for the world. The financial returns of Western multinationals, given low growth rate...
Last Friday, the 17th September, highlighted again the interrelationship between derivatives and equities in terms of fragmentation. The third Friday of the month is associated with futures and option...