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Following the spate of bank failures over the last couple of years, surviving institutions must brace themselves for a tough future, characterised by high competition and low customer confidence. How ...
NASDAQ OMX confirmed this week that it will close NEURO, its London based MTF, at the end of next month. Given that it was backed by the mighty NASDAQ OMX why did it fail and is this the end of the ...
Just read an interesting blog post from a security researcher performing a stealth penetration test on a bank, at the request of the bank incidentally. What was interesting to me was the amount of tec...
Customers want their data to be secure, firms don't want to be liable for the financial and brand damage due to lost client data, and governments are pushing in new regulations to tighten privacy and ...
Payments services hubs have long been talked about in the industry. The good news is that we’re now finally starting to see some successful roll-outs of these – SBSA’s being the most recent. But the ...
It is well documented that the Internet is increasingly becoming the go-to destination for consumers to read up on and research the wide array of financial services products on the market and as this ...
Had a couple of productive (and fun) days at TradeTech Europe last week. The Fidessa airship flying round the exhibition hall served as a good reminder to everyone that the switch by the LSE Group o...
The Zeus Trojan, a nasty piece of malware has been rewritten to target users of the Firefox browser. With an estimated 30% market share, Firefox was the natural next step for the trojan writers to ta...
I read with interest a recent press release from a technology provider announcing WHIZZ-BANG-WOW-SUPER-FAST millisecond response times for performance benchmark tests for real time fraud prevention, w...
Few can have missed the announcements from the LSE’s Turquoise and NYSE Arca Europe that they will each soon begin trading US stocks. Both venues will aim to attract the HFT/algo community which wil...
What could be the critical success factors for measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of Payment systems? In my humble view Payment instruments supported - ACH, Wire transfers, Cheques etc Paymen...
In an earlier post, I said that the online customer experience could be taken up a few notches by leveraging available technology. Let’s talk some more about certain innovative tools that can enhance ...