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Fame at last for one-time fintech journo Paul Murphy, following a brief cameo appearance as 'idiot guy at Alphaville' in the Martin Luke’s column in today’s FT. Old lags will remember Paul as the di...
Panelists in the exchange consolidation session at Finextra’s Fintech M&A event in London on Tuesday were asked to look ten years into the future and hazard a guess at the likely winners in the gl...
Registration has opened for Finexpo, Finextra’s sixth annual capital markets exhibition and conference, which takes place at The Brewery in London on Wednesday 30 January. Finexpo runs three simulta...
As I write this blog, teams across the UK are putting their final MiFID changes into systems ready for M-Day this week. Although MiFID is a Europe wide regulation - I say across the UK deliberately. W...
Popular digital arts community and message board B3ta.com poses an interesting question of the week – What’s the most expensive mistake you’ve ever made? Not surprisingly, IT cock-ups make up a large ...
McKinsey assessed the IT strategies of ten leading global corporations to understand how they invest in innovation while running their core IT operations efficiently. The consultancy found that they ...
I was stuck abroad last weekend and picked up Alan Greenspan's "Age of turbulence" to kill some time. I read the book cover to cover in one go (well actually two sessions to allow for dinner...
After the last few hectic days at Sibos here in Boston it was a delight to sit down in the closing plenary and rest my rapidly fading voice and tired feet. There is always an inclination not to take i...
Rafat at paidcontent has pointed to information emerging from a Thomson investor day that shared info on the likely shape of the business after merger (acquisition) with Reuters. While Reuters will ...
During this week at Sibos I have seen the results of several surveys around SEPA. Most would imply that the industry is not only positively engaged, but will achieve full migration by 2012 at the lat...
Day 2 of the Swift conference in Boston was filled with meetings about SEPA and the PSD (for those of you outside Europe this is the Payment Services Directive, the new legislation to harmonise the pa...
I hope you all had a great day yesterday. I thought today I should muse a little around one of the themes from yesterday's opening plenary. I am sure that like me, many of you noticed the more relaxe...