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The International Payments Summit (IPS) here in London kicked off this morning, and some of the usual themes have already come to the fore. It was no surprise that the straw poll by IPS of the delega...
A report issued by Thomson Reuters and Lepus recently contended that market data “contributed to the financial crisis” citing poor quality and more than one copy of the same information as the primary...
Electronic Communication Networks (ECN), Darkpools, Alternative Trading Systems (ATS), Multi-lateral trading facilities (MTF), crossing networks we’ve all heard about them and Asia’s electronic tradin...
Banks' availability of apps stores is one of the ten trends that we predicted for 2010 in our annual January subscriber research report. Our analysts envision it working like this: a bank customer sel...
Losses from falsified online banking transactions in the US tripled in the third quarter, and it seems that the banks have no way to stop them, reports Joseph Menn for the FT. At $120m, this is only ...
Fidessa PLC reported impressive full year results on February 15 despite a tough 2009. The company as a whole reported revenue with 63% generated from the sell side, 19% from connectivity, 11% from ma...
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Last Friday's afternoon chat with Enrico Camerinelli, senior analyst at Celent - Processes, People and Technology in Global Transaction Banking - talked about strategies for the development of global ...
New Hampshire, USA. “Live Free or Die,” baby. The official state motto emblazoned on every NH license plate has always intrigued. The thought of someone from NH might bring to mind revolutionaries or ...
I think one cannot overstate the importance of customer segmentation. Unfortunately, banking segmentation has remained largely unimaginative, with customers being grouped together based on the size of...
I see them all around the world - the 'boomer babies' - professionals and fat cats who came into existence in boom times. You could spot them everywhere - seminars, conferences, networking and any exp...
I've been watching a presentation by Zed Shaw (one of the pre-eminent software developers in the Ruby on Rails arena). Ostensibly, it's a presentation about implementing ACLs within a corporate enviro...