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Elton Cane

Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia

Algorithmic trading adoption on the buy side

I've noticed a trend among recent conferences I've attended: a growing number of sell-side firms sending along their business development and product managers to speak about algorithmic trading. While these guys are far too smart to engage in an unadulterated sales pitch, and for the most part their presentations have been insightful, there is an ...

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Digital Alcohol

I am just back from an entertaining and informative session at SunLive07, with particular items of note including two MiFID experts (Bob Fuller of Equiduct and Nick Gibson of ABN) actually agreeing on most things, not least and not surprisingly that rapid decisions by CESR are required on Best Execution and Transaction Reporting to aid implementat...

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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Ice, ice baby

Icap broker Johnny Black and fintech headhunter Chris Mike have posted a video of their charity striptease at Bank tube station on video-sharing Web site YouTube. As it’s all in aid of a good cause we’ve posted the x-rated vid on Finextra. Just click on the link below and watch grown men cavort to the sounds of Vanilla Ice as innocent bystanders...

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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Reuters to take on MySpace

Reuters is working on plans to develop a professional networking service for fund managers, traders and analysts. Pitching the project to Guardian journalists as a “version of MySpace for the financial services community”, Reuters’ Web 2.0-bedazzled CEO Tom Glocer adds: "It won't have the latest hot videos and the 'why I am into Metallica an...

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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

City gents to bare all at Bank tube station

Icap broker Johnny Black and fintech headhunter Chris Mike are going to extreme lengths to publicise their forthcoming charity race to the North Pole. The two City gents have formed Team Bearing 360 North to compete in the 400-mile race and raise vital funds for Orchid, a male cancer charity dedicated to fighting prostate and testicular cancer. T...

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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Baptism of fire for Reg NMS

As leading FTSE shares post triple-digital losses in London this morning, the markets await with trepidation the response from Wall Street. The continuing slide in stocks in London follows further reverses in the Dow on Friday afternoon and another hammering for the Asian markets this am. The market wobble couldn’t have come at a worse time for U...

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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Floor Traders 1 Computers 0

Nice to see the legacy human interface saving the day for Nyse after Tuesday’s run on stocks sent the Big Board’s fancy new electronic trading system into a tailspin. Capacity constraints forced the Nyse to shut down its automated trading system after a meltdown in Chinese share prices prompted a global panic that so upset the Dow Jones index calc...

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SWIFT Matters

I have read several articles in the financial press recently that so obviously regurgitate old press clippings. This laziness on the part of journalists leads to some regular and common inaccuracies, but none more so than the myth that abounds that SWIFT was ‘co-founded’ by Bessel Kok and a couple of friends! Why am I bothered you could ask, well...

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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Breaking the CrackBerry habit

Addled BlackBerry users looking to indulge their inclinations or control their CrackBerry habits now have a Website on which to find both a fix and a cure. CrackBerry.com offers help forums, beginner’s guides, downloads, an accessory store, and social networking features. The site is also updated daily with news, reviews and celebrity Blackberry ...

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Simplicity brings better Compliance

At MPIE we recently provided input to a whitepaper from NetApp - a leading unified storage solutions supplier - on compliance trends and how to reduce the risk and costs of their impact. I will leave you to judge the specific merits of the NetApp solution, but the general principles are clear. By understanding and designing for the wider complianc...

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