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Paul Penrose

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Finextra

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Dimon fills his boots with Visa and Bear double-whammy

It's a safe bet that Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan's chief executive won't be losing too much sleep after legal snags and investor opposition forced the firm to quintruple it's offer for Bear Stearns from the bargain-basement price of $2 per share to a slightly more palatable $10 per share. Yes, it is a bit of a climb-down, but for his $1.2 billion outla...

25 March 2008 /retail /wholesale Finextra50 fintech index

Misys gets reverse Midas touch

Misys boss Mike Lawrie and largest shareholder ValueAct Capital seemed to be onto a winner when they announced a deal earlier this week to spin off the company’s ailing healthcare business and merge it with rival Allscripts. News of the deal – accompanied by an upbeat interim statement from the banking division – lifted Misys’ share price by 20% f...

20 March 2008 /retail /wholesale Finextra50 fintech index

Rhapsody in red ink

The lyrical e-mail that's currently doing the rounds of investment bank inboxes: Subject: CDO fantasy - to the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody Is this the real price? Is this just fantasy? Financial landslide No escape from reality Open your eyes And look at your buys and see. I’m now a poor boy High-yielding casualty etc, etc. FT Alphaville has the...

19 March 2008 /wholesale Whatever...

In banking it pays to be disloyal

We know it costs more money to recruit a new customer than to cross-sell to an existing customer. We know also that a satisfied customer is a happy customer and good for some free word-of-mouth marketing to new prospects. So why is it that financial services companies continue to cheat and penalise their most loyal customers at any and every availa...

17 March 2008 /retail Trends in Financial Services

Chew on this cubicle-dwellers

Is it an adventure theme park….a children’s nursery….a health spa? No, it's Google’s new European engineering HQ in Zurich. The 'office' space features meeting 'pods' in the style of Swiss chalets and igloos, fireman poles to allow easy access between floors and a slide to ensure that people can get to the cafeteria as quickly as possible Other ar...

14 March 2008 /retail /wholesale Video extravaganza

Do you remember the first time? A Sibos virgin tells all

When was your first Sibos? It’s one those perennial questions for veterans of the international fintech circuit. Swift’s first international banking and operations seminar took place in 1978, attracting 300 participants to Brussels. When the doors open for Sibos 2008 in Vienna, some 70000 visitors are expected to attend. As it happens, my first Si...

14 March 2008 /payments /wholesale Finextra@Sibos

NatWest rides the offshore backlash

Picture the scene. Three UK banking personnel discuss where to locate their new call centre during a brainstorming exercise at a resort in Spain. While two of the bank staff bounce around ideas for various exotic overseas locations, the third chips in with the novel suggestion of locating the call centre in the UK. This is greeted by hoots of deri...

05 March 2008 /retail Video extravaganza

Paper cheques are so 17th Century

A sign of the times: The Cheque and Credit Clearing Company (C&CCC) and Apacs, the UK payments association, has issued a new advice guide for consumers on how to write and receive cheques. Recent research conducted by C&CCC has shown that over half of all UK account holders are concerned about receiving cheques and around a quarter don't l...

26 February 2008 /payments /retail Trends in Financial Services

The new, new banking

Research from ComPeer suggests that demand for financial advice has slipped sharply in the past four years. In the research among 2000 adults, respondents were asked who they regarded as their main financial services advisor. An identical question was asked in June 2003 and big changes between the two surveys are found: Far fewer people have a f...

20 February 2008 /retail Finance 2.0

Finextra video extravaganza

Over the course of the past year the Finextra editorial team have been honing their new media skills with a series of face-to-face video interviews with high-profile participants in the fintech community. Satisfied with the way in which the medium enables us to provide a more analytical and animated spin on industry issues, we've decided to pack...

18 February 2008 /retail /wholesale Video extravaganza