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A Finextra Member

Out with the old

After a number of years of steady activity, we are now seeing increasing numbers of financial institutions starting to migrate their legacy payment systems. It seems to be a number of factors have com...

09 Nov 2011
A Finextra Member

eSecurity Infrastructures: Reflections and Lessons

In view of many eSecurity projects launched by banks & governments to secure their online services and organizations to secure remote access-control/ information assets, lets pause a little to ref...

09 Nov 2011
Information Security
A Finextra Member

Will M and A be hit; or is it business as usual?

Last week I attended a breakfast meeting at Cass Business School, a heavyweight panel consisting of Lord Lyndon Harrison, Chairman of the Lords’ Committee For Economic and Financial Affairs and Intern...

09 Nov 2011
Post-Trade Forum
Bo Harald

e-government checklist - expanded

A lot of strategy papers have been written and inititiaves launched to further e-government. The topic is important - for enterprises competitiveness and tax payers. But too often these programs tend ...

08 Nov 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
A Finextra Member

The Platform-as-a-Service Revolution with IT management

Back in April, Forrester said the following about the PaaS market: “PaaS is the third-largest cloud category, with a market size of $820 million in 2011, and Forrester predicts steady growth as PaaS b...

08 Nov 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
Bo Harald

Progressive Kazakhstan - how about your country?

Kazakhstan is moving to e-invoicing with the help of the needed deadline for paper: http://bx.businessweek.com/e-invoicing/view?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sharedserviceslink.com%2Ffile%2F93958%2Fe-invoicing...

08 Nov 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
Gaurav Handa

Setting the FS Growth Agenda: World Population hits 7B

Efforts to rebuild and recapitalize the industry post the financial crisis notwithstanding, banks are looking at where growth will come from and how to respond to changing customer needs. Several indu...

07 Nov 2011
A Finextra Member

Avoiding Systemic Crises: Getting a Grip on Big Data

Systemic risk was at the heart of the financial crisis of 2008, and is again on everyone's mind as the current sovereign debt crisis unfolds. Regulatory and industry efforts are, therefore, focusing o...

07 Nov 2011
A Finextra Member

Market Trust and Innovation

I am wondering on the origins of "market trust" and its relation to innovation. Why do some organizations create and more importantly, sustain their market trust and credibility? More specif...

07 Nov 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
Bo Harald

When will your country become e-id-progressive?

Canada joining the self-evident model - reuse what citizens already are used to, is secure and saves tons of tax payers money. https://www.finextra.com/news/fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=23132 When will y...

07 Nov 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
A Finextra Member

What's the point of MTFs?

When MiFID was written one of its objectives was to create increased competition to the Stock Exchanges. The view being that the Stock Exchanges were operating in what looked like a monopoly and with ...

07 Nov 2011
Post-Trade Forum
Bo Harald

The high cost of cash

We have elected and pay for decision makers and regulators. Sometimes I get the impression that they try to govern as little as possible in important areas and overcompensate with irritating nitty-gri...

06 Nov 2011

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