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Elton Cane

Finextra takes on New York - and Sifma TMC

Real-time event coverage and expansion plans in the US: It's the Sifma Technology Management Conference in New York next week (as of writing). Maybe it's just me being pedantic, but it's always kind ...

06 Jun 2008
Elton Cane

As cool as ICE

The Creditex acquisition looks like third-time lucky for ICE, which has been keen to follow the same horizontal growth strategy being successfully pursued by other exchange groups over the past few ye...

03 Jun 2008
Private Equity Investing in Financial Technology
Elton Cane

Study: Hormones cause market downturns

New Scientist reported yesterday on research from the University of Cambridge that suggests the movements of money in the financial markets are correlated to stock traders' levels of two hormones: t...

15 Apr 2008
Elton Cane

Investment bank bonus structures are an operational risk

This is one of the interesting topics that came up for debate at a risk event I attended yesterday organised by the CASS Business School in London and the Capco Institute. The recent sub-prime and liq...

09 Apr 2008
Trends in Financial Services
Elton Cane

Software scapegoats for the sub-prime situation

Fair Isaac is the technology company most damaged by the subprime crisis. In fact some banks, such as HSBC Finance, have said its ubiquitous FICO credit scoring system contributed to the problem by

02 Apr 2008
Finextra50 fintech index
Elton Cane

Do retail banks respond to emails?

I saw this survey last week that revealed 53% of UK banks fail to respond appropriately to online queries or emails. A US version of the same study last year found that of 72 banks surveyed, well ove...

21 Feb 2008
Trends in Financial Services
Elton Cane

Finextra launches market data and analysis on fintech sector

We have launched a new market data section on Finextra.com, which will provide market data and financial analysis across the different subsectors within the financial technology industry worldwide. Af...

13 Feb 2008
Finextra50 fintech index
Elton Cane

Why predict Eurex as a survivor and not Deutsche Boerse?

This recent TowerGroup report makes some interesting predictions, and has sound reasons for picking its five suvivors in the global exchange land grab. On one hand I can see why they have picked Eurex...

12 Feb 2008
Finextra50 fintech index
Elton Cane

Finexpo CTS presentations now available

Many of the 600+ delegates attending Finexpo City Technology Strategies in London last Wednesday have requested copies of particular presentations. For those speakers who did use a set of powerpoi...

06 Feb 2008
Finexpo
Elton Cane

Danger: Traders with middle-office experience

The SocGen fraud story, which is flabbergasting the industry and providing a distraction from credit crunch woes and hand-wringing about the dangers of overly complex structured productios, is remarka...

24 Jan 2008
Elton Cane

IBM results are good news for fintech sector

After previewing its fourth quarter results on Monday, IBM yesterday provided more details yesterday, which provided a boost for the tech sector generally. And although it may be too early to tell, th...

18 Jan 2008
Finextra50 fintech index

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