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Cyber Monday Kicks off Holiday Shopping Season

The first Monday following the US Thanksgiving holiday has become known as “Cyber Monday”; a day in which online retailers promote heavy discounts on merchandise to kick off the holiday shopping seaso...

28 Nov 2011
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The need for data theft deterrents

This case is just the latest example of how “trusted insiders” can pose a risk to an organisation’s data security defences and how they continue to by-pass them altogether, only to get found out when ...

28 Nov 2011
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About Your Profit and Loss Plaftorm...no.4. Next W - What?

Dear Bank IT Manager, In my last post I committed to send a new update once I ate my first rocket salad. Mission accomplished: It was simply delicious. By the way, you asked what P&L tools and veg...

23 Nov 2011
Banking Architecture
Brett King

A Dictator or Retail Bank. Which is Easier to Save?

Bankers often talk about the 'trust' consumers have in banking as a defining characteristic of why customers give banks their money instead of simply keeping it under a mattress. Some bankers might ha...

23 Nov 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
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Finance leaders: Looking to Generation Z and Education

Looking Back 100 years At a recent presentation at a Global Creative Innovation Conference, the audience was challenged to identify three (3) industries that had barely changed systematically over th...

20 Nov 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
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eBAM: All the Hype, Again

Electronic bank account management (eBAM), an automated approach to the opening, closing and management of bank accounts seems simple, right? So simple in fact, that when the idea was first introduced...

18 Nov 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
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400 million euro; for what?

At a recent conference a senior member of the T2S development team said that to date €350m had been spent on development and this was likely to rise to about €400m due to the 9 months delay announced ...

18 Nov 2011
Post-Trade Forum
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Basel III, the new rules

Under Basel III‘s new rules, capital efficiency is no longer a mere function of return and leverage. The ability to collect information and process trades directly impacts the volume and breadth of ac...

14 Nov 2011
Robert Siciliano

Human Security Weaker Than IT Security

Information technologies have evolved to a level at which the developers, programmers, and security specialists all know what they’re doing, and are able to produce products and services that work and...

14 Nov 2011
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U.S. Marine Rings in Veterans Day at NYSE

Devil Dogs helped get trading started at the New York Stock Exchange Friday, with a United States Marine ringing the Opening Bell, flanked by fellow Marines and service members from the other branche...

11 Nov 2011
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CCP selection - looking beyond fees

A key driver for central counterparty (CCP) interoperability is greater competition in clearing, to bring down costs for customers. In what is an already aggressive European market, all interoperable ...

11 Nov 2011
Nikhil Mittal

SEPA and the potential Euro fallout

The hush-hush on the street is Greece is out, Italy may go down, next in line could potentially be Spain and so on. The newspapers are ripe with the last minute reforms and short-term strategies to ba...

09 Nov 2011
Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

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