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Growth in Transaction Banking; are banks going back to basics or is there a killer application ? While the global financial markets face severe meltdown, one area within banking quietly continues to p...
Following on from my previous blog about the mileage a typical Sibos delegate clocks up during the event, I have an update for you. Monday started quite slowly with a modest 7.8km - there was a lot o...
In addition to the US squatter the European Squatters are hard at work. A number of permutations of the potential LloydsTSB / HBOS merger have also been snapped up. However there are a few combination...
...but how? In one of my earlier posts, I mentioned that change needs to occur in order for SEPA to succeed. Over the course of the past few days at Sibos, it has become even clearer to me that thr...
A piece on The Register discusses how two well-known security researchers have scrapped a talk discussing some interesting new critical holes impacting anyone using a web browser. They cancelled fol...
Sibos can sometimes appear to the outsider like an excuse for a big party - in fact a succession of parties with the free cocktails seemingly flowing from lunchtime onwards. I recall from Copenhagen s...
There's a first time for everything and an early morning run at Sibos certainly was a first for me. Thanks to the good people at EBA Clearing and our excellent local guides from RZB a couple of the Fi...
Before supplier financing, one of the few options open to the supplier to fund their business activity was factoring – a process that is often heavily paper-based, involves changes to the payment pro
SWIFT benefits for coporates are clear but the practicalities are being defined When SWIFT opened up its messaging services and network to corporates, it was initially aimed at the top 2000 global org...
Another small change for the better - our market data pages are colour coded green and red where appropriate to indicate positive or negative values. Seems to be a lot of red at the moment.... Also I'...
Mobile phones support secure (encrypted) data transfer on the internet (the same as is used on computers). So the level of security for the internet traffic is at the very least equal to computers. F...
FXMarketSpace was born out of the general belief, current a few years ago, that markets such as FX would "evolve" towards the exchange-based model of equities, and that this somehow represen...