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This week we have some of the world's biggest banks recording staggering, record profits - despite this there are serious challenges heading the banks way in the short-term; consumer trust is just t
Just stumbled across this jaw-dropping anecdote from a NY Times article on the May 6 Flash crash: The founder of Tradebot, in Kansas City, Mo., told students in 2008 that his firm typically held stoc...
Mashups are beginning to excite the banking world because of their potential to give customers more control over customer data – to be able to query it, manipulate it, enhance it and even combine it
For the past few weeks I have been talking with a group of people at a large global bank about doing a Twitterview (it is scheduled, and will be publicised closer to the date, so keep your pants on). ...
As we approach the mid point of the year, it’s obvious that, despite the many and varied calls for an end date for the use of legacy payment instruments, procrastination is the order of the day, and t...
On a roadshow in Asia recently, while talking to our transaction banking and corporate customers, I was struck by how flat the world of Supply Chain Finance seems to have become. On the one hand, the...
Despite Iceland's attempts to derail Western Europe's economy yet again, this year's TradeTech event was surprisingly well attended. Word is about 75% of the delegates made it to the show-with some sp...
The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed that Finextra's sporting a proud new logo. That's right. we're celebrating our tenth birthday later this year and we thought we'd mark the occasion by commiss...
What could be the critical success factors for measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of Payment systems? In my humble view Payment instruments supported - ACH, Wire transfers, Cheques etc Paymen...
Sources inside Thomson Reuters have said that Tom Glocer's plans for the massive market data, news, technology etc, etc, etc...vendor must proceed without failure or he (and by default everyone else) ...
It is axiomatic that banks have traditionally had problems in measuring their payments business and the value it brings to their bottom line. Are payments just a means to securing a corporate’s DDA or...
As we dally in Europe with double-dip recession or recovery, and the Greek financial woes, life is indeed strange at the moment. And so is our attitude towards SEPA. There’s a poignant old expression:...