The Finextra FinTech 2010 predictions ...honest!

Finextra is soon to head off in our separate directions for our Christmas break. So I thought I would scribble down some New Year predictions. Fed up with Sibos prices, a 'major international bank' w...

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The PSD 'what ifs'

Today's Innovation in Payments rountable, sponsored by the Visa Europe Research Fellowship at the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, was filled with many 'what ifs' in regards to the Paymen...

Go East, young man...for networks

Finextra and BT recently held a webcast looking at the future of financial networks. The lively, transatlantic debate, with expert panalists from NY and London, soon turned towards Asia. Here are some...

I work for Bank of America, DM me!

Bank of America was an early active adopter of Twitter, which they use to monitor and respond to customer service questions. It is interesting to see how Twitter as evolved. For some it is about watc...

Social Banks

You can use it ...even if you are a Sugarbabe

I just needed to share this with the Finextra Community. So much better than the Window 7 house party - Push that button baby! (for those outside the UK - the Sugarbabes are an all-girl UK supergroup,...

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Single dealer platforms: what do your customers want?

Finextra and Caplin Systems recently recorded a webcast looking at how the financial services industry is leveraging RIA technologies and creating a more full service customer experience. The panel ha...

The PSD has arrived; is it a threat or an opportunity?

Senior payments professionals from RBS, HSBC, BNYMellon and JPMorgan join with industry analysts to debate the future of banking and payments in the European union, in our upcoming webcast hosted by F...

The future of financial networks. Transatlantic, webcast

Finextra and BT are joined by Credit Suisse, HSBC, Knight Equity Markets, Cisco Systems and the Tabb Group for a one hour, transatlantic discussion looking at the future of financial networls. The liv...

OMG! Really, I've won!?

A few years ago I was at a talk with Scott McNeally of Sun Microsystems just after the Oscars in the US. He remarked how wonderful the Oscars were "A whole industry gathers to award prizes - to t...

Could this be the mythical Markit-killer?

Bloomberg's global identifiers for all asset classes are now available for free. A move that will be applauded by most standards and identifier evangelists. However, as most veterans of the standards ...

Data Management 101

Mifid was written with a paranoia of what brokers do

The title of my blog is a quote from a new Finextra webcast It pays to play - opportunities and challanges for internal crossing, available now on an on-demand basis. Anyone agree with that quote? He...

SocGen, HSBC and Unicredit talk dealer portals

Finextra is hosting a live webcast, along with Caplin, on Tuesday, 10 Nov. at 2:30 GMT. Resgiter here. The live and interactive webcast, Buyers' market - single-dealer portals and courting the onlin...