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Next: Algorithmic Banking?

Algorithmic trading has made the headlines, most often negatively. The underlying idea is that computers can make, on a broader scale, better decisions than a trader. On the other hand, criticism is r...

15 Apr 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
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FX eCommerce - Single Dealer Platforms

I recently completed some research on single dealer platforms or FX eCommerce systems, which are designed for market makers and dealers in foreign currency trading. My research covered FX aggregation,...

14 Apr 2011
Financial Risk Management
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Feeling the Pressure: Fixed income processing

In March, new issuance and continued interest rate volatility contributed to further increases in fixed income volumes according to leading brokers like ICAP, who last week announced a 22% volume incr...

14 Apr 2011
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Trading socialized

Social media are here to stay. Period. There is no way you can avoid Twitter and Facebook and Linkedin and Foursquare and more and more. Your friends checked-in in a bar and one of them was crowned a

14 Apr 2011
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The spinning compass of mobile banking

At the Asian Banker Summit in Hong Kong last week, the passion that the banking community displayed to be a leader in innovation and customer experience was very apparent. For the East, the fast adopt...

13 Apr 2011
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Creating the Business Case for Payment Execution Outsourcing

Simply put, payment execution is the process of initiating payments, whether by check, ACH, wire or card. Increasingly, companies are looking to outsource this portion of their A/P processing. Payme...

12 Apr 2011
Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
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Avast! Antivirus overzealous protecting from scurrilous curs

Yarr, me hearties! An issue with Avast (an Anti-virus popular for personal use as it's free), led to many websites having the black mark placed upon them erroneously. The error only affected compute...

12 Apr 2011
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SEPA vs. Open Source development

As final day for SEPA has been changed, again. I started to think what we could learn from Open Source Development. Every day streets and meeting rooms of Brussels get important people to discuss hard...

11 Apr 2011
Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
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The Ostrich's Guide to FSA Compliance

We know it’s a problem, we’ve seen it this year – don’t comply, don’t look after your customers properly at your peril. If you’re not going to play the game by the rules, be sure to put something b

08 Apr 2011
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Fragmentation v Consolidation

Seems like equity and other capital marketplaces are going through the ying and yang of fragmentation and consolidation. Just as we hear about another merger, we read about another new venue going li...

08 Apr 2011
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Banks: Engage or Die!

The UK banking and financial service sector is currently undergoing a period of reinvention (whether it realises it or not). There are several reasons for this: Firstly, the rise of social media has ...

08 Apr 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
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LEIs - a major change for global commerce

LEIs don’t just impact the financial markets sector – they impact the whole of global commerce. A company’s LEI will become a key element of accounts receivable, accounts payable, invoicing and e-inv...

07 Apr 2011

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