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John Cant

Polarisation, not extinction - the future exchanges

With thoughts switching from MiFID compliance to the post MiFID impact on markets, here is a brief summary of some research on the probable impact on smaller European equity markets. The traditional ...

28 Jan 2008
MiFID
Paul Penrose

And the equity derivatives house of the year is...

This just in: January 2008, Incisive Media's annual Risk Awards black-tie dinner. "Last year was the most volatile since 1998, with rising delinquencies in the US subprime mortgage market causing...

25 Jan 2008
Elton Cane

Danger: Traders with middle-office experience

The SocGen fraud story, which is flabbergasting the industry and providing a distraction from credit crunch woes and hand-wringing about the dangers of overly complex structured productios, is remarka...

24 Jan 2008
Elton Cane

IBM results are good news for fintech sector

After previewing its fourth quarter results on Monday, IBM yesterday provided more details yesterday, which provided a boost for the tech sector generally. And although it may be too early to tell, th...

18 Jan 2008
Finextra50 fintech index
A Finextra Member

Finexpo CTS speaker listings now online

Coming to Finexpo? Curious to know what's going on? We've just put the updated speaker session listings live - with speaker photos and session profiles. Finexpo CTS seminar sessions Finexpo day at a...

16 Jan 2008
Finexpo
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Dollar 100 oil a barrel, banks for financing opportunities

At US$ 100 oil-a-barrel lots of opportunities can be visible. Every alternative energy / research project on earth was looking expensive at $28 or $36 or $46. But what about $ 60-70-80-90 and now inte...

15 Jan 2008
Going green
Paul Penrose

No soft soap at Bank of America

Your chief executive took home nearly $100 million in 2006 and you run a fleet of 20-odd corporate jets to ferry board directors to important business meetings and former executives to important Red S...

07 Jan 2008
Whatever...
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New Year gifts to foreign tax authorities

We should all be saying Happy New Year! Well, actually we have already, especially to tax authorities around the world. Many of them have just received a New Year's present of cash from the financia...

07 Jan 2008
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