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I was the guest of DnB NOR in Oslo earlier this week where I participated in their Nordic Market Structure and Best Execution Summit. The event was well attended and included a number of significant ...
There has been a lot of buzz about Empire Avenue recently, so I thought I’d do a quick review for those of you that are curious about what it offers. EA is a social game that lets you buy and sell vir...
Can we use for that some of the ideas of M.Kaku, Von Neumann, Kardashev or Andreyev ´s Roza Mira? copyright Miloslav HOSCHEK PhD independent consultant mhoschek/ad/gmail.com
On April 29th, the US Treasury Secretary proposed to exempt foreign exchange forwards and swaps transactions from forced clearing under the Dodd-Frank act. FX swaps and forwards shouldn't fall under t...
Many financial institutions are trying to run their critical payments function on disparate, cobbled-together systems, whose complexity and inflexibility make it difficult to respond to new customer n...
A few weeks ago there was a very public spat between Verifone, one of the leading providers of payments terminals, and new market entrant for mobile payments acceptance, Square, backed by Twitter foun...
Visa's digital wallet seems to take a different path from 3D Secure. If it's "digital" I wonder if it's interoperable online and how might it work over Internet? The digital wallet will stor...
As cross-border processing volumes for securities and other asset classes continue to increase, companies are looking to rationalise trade flows to reduce costs and boost efficiencies. With many firms...
I needed $2000.00 for fixing my home. I stepped into my bank for a line of credit. The chap (relationship manager) asked me to fill up half a dozen forms, took a declaration to check on my credit rati...
Yes, Internet Banking, I’m talking about you. You, with your self service features, your reduced TCO and your oh so shiny new graphics. Yes, you’re faster than the call centre (if my call is important...
http://streams.metropolia.fi/old/MultimediaTech2010/bo_harald_2/ all the way to e-invoicing..
Love it, hate it, but you simply can’t ignore it. In recent years, few things have attracted more attention than the social networking phenomenon. With Facebook’s population adding up to the third lar...