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With Valentine’s Day around the corner, many single people return to thoughts of finding love online. But while your head is in the online clouds, you should know – and sorry to sound like a parent ...
Looks like Canada was a good place to pick as the venue for the first Fidessa Fragmentation Forum of 2011. Around 140 representatives from Canada’s financial community gathered together at the Toront...
According to the recent ACI commissioned survey as reported on this website, 81% of the 4,200 respondents, in the 14 countries surveyed, have confidence in the ability of their bank of financial inst...
Algo trading is very much under the spotlight right now and certain to be so for some time yet. The new group set up to look into the affects of Algo trading on the markets should provide some interes...
At the recent MiFID Forum, the FSA outlined the problems facing the securities industry in complying with the regulatory requirement to implement a unique investor identifier. Various ideas were put f...
Last week or so, my client asked if they could use direct debit as optional payment method. To me this is really valid point. They said that when offering their service from iTunes, they pay hefty 30 ...
Back in 1994, Coopers and Lybrand (as was) predicted that the number of exchanges in Europe would shrink down to 8 before the end of the decade. As a modern maths teacher might say – they get marks f...
Nyse Euronext and Deutsche Börse are in merger talks, fresh on the news that the LSE and TMX are in advanced stages of a merger. After a few years of inactivity it looks like the Exchange consolidatio...
In the B2B world, generally speaking, buyers and suppliers both understand the benefits of moving to electronic payments. These benefits include higher rates of straight-through processing, reduced b...
Those of us in the ATM space are quite often asked where we stand in an industry increasingly talking about ‘e-‘this or ‘m-‘that. It’s a shame that more such sceptics weren’t listening to Flora Hamilt...
The report from Boston Consulting Group reinforces the anecdotal evidence that we are hearing from banks all around the world – payments are an essential service, but revenue per transaction is decrea...
In a small Maine town, local school officials buck state requirements and tell parents not to give out their child’s Social Security number. The Bangor Daily reports “School departments across the st...