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A slew of job cuts across financial services have been announced over the course of the last few weeks and there is no doubt that these are the tip of the iceberg. Some reports have even gone as far ...
A recent survey by TRUSTe reported in the NYTimes showed that over 90% of people surveyed thought that trust is 'really' or 'somewhat' important. 75 percent of respondents agreed with the statement, “...
Cost reduction initiatives dominate the capital markets industry as few participants are untouched by the financial crisis. It is very possible some industry participants will not survive in their cur...
Is equally shared parenting the way forward in order to address gender equality? This article in the Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/feb/19/parenting-shared-responsibility-viv-gr...
There! I've said it. When all my school friends were planning careers as doctors, bank managers or Whitehall manadarins, I was taking televisions, radios, motors (and sometimes insects) apart to find ...
I saw Mikhail Gorbachev in the paper today - and it made me think how two words - perestroika and glasnsot (definitions from Wikipedia below) - came to symbolise the fall of the Soviet Union and the e...
I suspect the memorable phrase coined today by Hector Sants, CEO of the Financial Services Authority, will long be remembered as a turning point in the debate about regulatory structure. He said "...
In the wake of the alleged $50bn Madoff and $8bn Stanford ponzi schemes, I have to announce that I have uncovered one that’s a tad larger. A ponzi scheme is defined as one where current withdrawals ar...
Perhaps the lack of popularity of NFC is due to excessive assumptions regarding NFC and the absence of real benefits overall. The assumption in the article that other methods require more expertise on...
Improving post-trade processing capabilities is imperative when more than 50 per cent of a client’s workload can be spent dealing with terminations, novations and amendments – let alone getting in pla...
For those of you who didn't sit in on Cohn & Wolfe's recent gathering to discuss the state of (dis)trust in financial institutions, I'll give you a quick rundown of their conclusions, which won't ...
This is good. It was sent to me by a close friend. It has been around a little but given the US employment figures is so true and such a WAKE UP call to Brown, Obama, Rudd and so many other world lead...