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The current market turmoil looks like it's going to hit offshore outsourcing firms pretty hard. As the FT reported a couple of days ago, firms like HCL and Wipro are putting a brave face on the crisi...
Now I've spent 15 years writing about technology and data on Wall Street and the City. I've met many people who do (or did) take home a fat wad of cash and others who get by on much smaller wallets. B...
In one of today’s SIBOS panel debates we managed to convince an informed audience that hedge funds are not the root of all evil, and hopefully I’ll be able to convince you. The market event of
One of the highlights of Sibos in Boston last year was the breakfast speech given by Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit association. Swift says Negropont...
As we approach the end of Sibos, activity in the exhibition halls continues, at least for us, at a high level. Outside the Sibos 'bubble', when the media intrude, it seems that all hell has broken loo...
Exceptions are the curse of the payments industry; They are the risk They are the cost They are the operational inefficiency As an industry we need to apply the same level of technology to the except
With corporate social responsibility on the conference agenda at Sibos for the first time, I thought it would be interesting to have a chat with Swift's own CSR manager to talk about the co-operative'...
Amid serious concerns that the escalating banking crisis will result in a major loss of sales, Thomson Reuters has instigated a recruitment freeze at its financial markets and technology unit. Accordi...
What a difference a year makes. Only this week, we have seen the Financial Services sector go through further turmoil and in the past 12 months, the news pages were filled with bail-outs, bankruptcies...
The numbers behind Google's processing are staggering. Indexing over one trillion URLs, the Internet search giant reported in January that it processes 20 Petabytes of data per day. My Word spellcheck...
A survey by my company - ACI Worldwide - at Sibos found that 78 percent of those delegates questioned who expressed an opinion ‘strongly agree' or ‘agree' that the migration to SEPA instruments has b...
Writing this, I come fresh from yesterday’s SIBOS panel on the merits of central authority intervention in the capital markets. The timeliness of the topic made the discussion a livelyone, especiall