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So the LSE/TMX deal is no more – it is deceased, it is an ex deal. Last night the LSE broke off talks with Canada’s TMX group as it became obvious that their proposed merger was never going to get ...
https://www.ebaportal.eu/_Download/What's%20News/2011/ISO20022_Financial_Invoice_Factsheet.pdf The good thing with standards is - as many say - that there are so many of them. When it comes to e-invoi...
Today I’ve been in Beetsterzwaag, Opsterland, Netherlands, about 150 kilometers from Amsterdam at an offsite strategic retreat with the ICS (International Card Services) team. Initially part of Bank o...
Vaughan Williams’ choral work ‘Towards the Unknown Region’ is a dramatic setting of a Walt Whitman poem, describing the uncertainty of life, the soul being led to an unknown place with no maps or guid...
Possibly illegal, certainly immoral – Do insurance companies need to look again at their role in escalating premiums? The recent revelations by former Justice Secretary Jack Straw that he has been adv...
The proposed surcharges I mentioned last week are on the books. The surcharges, between 1 percent and 2.5 percent of risk-adjusted assets, are meant to protect banks from themselves in the case of an...
Something is better than nothing, at least according to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. All of the nation’s exchanges may soon install a circuit breaker for each domestic stock, now that ...
For one of my customers I had a look at the Russian payments market and in particular the online market. How different can a market be and how mis-leaded can you be with your own world of thinking! I
It appears that someone took the side of the underdog when NATO somewhat foolishly chose poor words in a report where 'infiltration & persecution' were the recipe for hurt feelings. Besides the fa...
In 2010 both MasterCard and Visa purchased major payment service providers like DataCash and Cybersource. As did some payment processors that acquired payment service providers. The e-commerce market ...
I was amazed by the report that Wells Fargo has ended up paying $16m for failing to provide phone services for deaf customers. Part of the amazement is that in the UK phone services for hearing impa
My first few days of stay in one of the worlds most developed economies USA, has made me think in a lot of different directions related to the methodical ways of doing things here. It feels like a CMM...