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Over the weekend I was ruminating as you do, with a glass of wine in my hand. The object of my rumination was, unlikely as it sounds, SEPA. I know, I know, I need to get a life – but bear with me. A...
Mind-boggling stat of the day. 10 Milliseconds: trade execution times on the London Stock Exchange's new TradElect platform. 100-150 milliseconds: the amount of time taken to blink the human eye.
Are people more likely to switch banks to get a better deal, or because of poor customer service? That was the question asked by a YouGov survey for moneysupermarket.com back in October last year. Ov...
I’d be really interested in any reader’s feedback on the following. Some investment firms seem to think that, under MiFID, they don’t have to provide their clients with “best” execution – just with ex...
Direct Line, the insurance subsidiary of Royal Bank of Scotland, has launched a biting attack on the independence and accuracy of online price comparison services. In a new TV advertising campaign it ...
Chip Mahan, who stepped down from the post of CEO and chairman of Internet banking vendor S1 in October last year, is setting up a new specialist lending business in Wilmington, North Carolina. Live O...
It's been a long time since I have seen a technology demo that's been so jaw-droppingly good that I've paid rapt attention, certain that I've seen a glimpse of the future. This is one of those things....
It’s easy to say that a problem is like Y2K, but it’s not generally true. With Y2K, technology people didn’t start to promote the use of a standard date format with a four-digit year that would work ...
Maybe if “dark fibre” wasn’t called “dark”, it wouldn’t sound so - dark, like something out of Star Wars used by Darth Vader to strangle his enemies with. Maybe if it was called “Beige Fibre” it woul...
Missed EBAday? Or perhaps momentarily lost concentration and missed a crucial point during a speech? I do that a lot in the afternoon. Where was I? Oh yes - no problem - here are all the Powerpoints f...
A friend of mine recently returned from Egypt and I was reminded of sourcing efforts in North Africa. HP have led the way here with some work in French speaking countries, however the African market a...
Maybe after MiFID we’ll need to change the way that we use English. Why do we call off-exchange trading “Over The Counter”? (because we don’t think of on-exchange trading as being “under the counter”...