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A community to discuss the future of financial services and any other interesting trends, strategies, ideas, views.
Time to consider what the year ahead might have in store. Volatility and uncertainty seem to be at an all-time high making an already difficult project that much more challenging. What follows are wha...
So, it’s late December. The post Christmas party hangovers are becoming increasingly frequent, you’re just about done with the shopping, and the urge to work is waning. In short, it’s a great time of ...
Investing has evolved into a highly social activity, as evidenced by the countless chatrooms, blogs, and message boards populating the Internet. With the Facebook Platform API now available we would e...
I had an interesting conversation today with Steve Rubinow, CTO of NYSE Euronext. Just over a year after the third phase of NYSE’s Hybrid trading system went live, heralding the massive shift away fro...
I’m not going to comment on the content of Chris’ and Michael’s blogs, but do look forward to the “event” that may bring them together into the public arena in February – I hear Sky Box Office has had...
After yesterday's blog sparring session between Messrs Skinner and Goldman, I thought I'd add my own 2p worth to the debate and risk being accused of not reading or understanding either gentleman prop...
I attended an interesting roundtable held by Omgeo this morning. Kicking off the discussion, Omgeo's industry relations manager Tony Freeman reported a few things he'd heard at a recent ISITC event th...
Royal Bank of Scotland is to conduct internal staff trials of mobile payment technology using MasterCard's PayPass contactless system. News of the pilot comes the day after the card scheme announced ...
So we have seen some high profile casualties in the subprime triggered credit crunch from both the corporation and personnel perspective and I am sure we will see further cases in the coming weeks and...
Latest report from McKinsey “ The New Power Brokers: How Oil, Asia, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity - Are Shaping Global Capital Markets”, presents interesting insights into future of capital markets ...
Isn't it better to have one throat to choke? The explosions of the personal computer saw two hardware and operating system vendor models emerge. The first was the IBM compatible or “PC” camp where har...
DIFC has added another arrow to its strategic quiver: SmartStream. The acquisition underscores once again the explosive buildup of financial infrastructure going on in the Middle East. With the cont...