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Why aren't retailers jumping en masse aboard the mobile payments train? Well, there is no gravy on it, the train is not leaving the station yet, and it might even be cancelled. It all boils down to &q...
The adoption of Personal Finance Management (PFM) tools is widely reported as being subpar. Most of the data on the subject is US-based so far. Analysts from Celent said some time ago that only 3.8%...
This long weekend marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of Competitive Clearing for Equities. It was on Monday 5th May 2003 that virt-x exchange, the former Tradepoint (and subsequently re-named SW...
I am thinking of a model where companies will exchange payments via the same network infrastructures they already use for business-to-business (B2B) transactions such as purchase orders, sales orders,...
Earlier this week BaFin, the German regulator, held a workshop on the German HFT Act. Global market participants gathered in Frankfurt to discuss and better understand the implications of the soon to...
We were recently the subject of an innovation case study with a great group of people studying entrepreneurship from Nottingham University, which got me thinking; How does an organisation get the ‘inn...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a Guidance Consultation on the approach it expects recognised investment exchanges (RIEs) and multi-lateral trading facilities (MTFs) to take in res...
An overview of the European dark pools regulatory landscape While the progression of dark pools has been intensive in North America, the rhythm in Europe has been much slower (see below). So far, the...
"Let's go, where? I don't care." "What will we do? Anything." City of Angels Now I might be wrong, but I bet there has never been anything written about City Messengers? Going back...
Any lingering hopes that there was light at the end of the tunnel for UK retail banks were dashed last week by Baroness Susan Kramer, a leading light in the House of Lords for banking reform and chair...
There has been a lot of debate around the role of SEFs in the global derivatives market. Some commentators are even claiming that the whole concept is dead and buried before the rules have even been ...
‘Mobile banking’ is not a very precise term. Today, we know it as meaning using your mobile phone for banking. However, back in the late 1990s, all that it meant was SMS banking. If your bank was pa