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Twitter has suffered an embarassing security lapse after a hacker stole hundreds of confidential documents and released them in the blogosphere. Explaining the break-in, Twitter CEO Biz Stone writes...
FX markets remained open for business throughout the credit crisis, although volume growth may have slowed. Across the board market participants continue to embrace eFX for many reasons. While risk ma...
Goldman Sachs hasn't had the best of press lately. A recent Rolling Stone article went as far as to describe the firm as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly ...
The typical coffee machine chat with players and observers of the corporate banking world lately always seems to come back to the massive change over the past year and a half in how banks have brought...
I can’t agree more with Hilary Ward from Citi. In her recent article on GTNews, Hilary talks about the benefits of automating the process around on-boarding and bank account management, between corpo...
Great event organised by PRMIA and IAFE last night at Goldman's London offices with a long title: "A Little Thought Goes A Long Way and Lessons for Risk Management from the Current Crisis"...
Whoa! Run that by me again. The London Stock Exchange is seriously contemplating scrapping its £40 million TradElect system. The TradElect switch was flipped amid great fanfare barely two years ago, f...
George Soros has waded back into the current saga concerning OTC derivatives in his article last week in the FT. The main part of the article focusses on financial markets reform, but ends with a veh...
Given the ongoing debate about "too big to fail" and whether we should head back to the days of the Glass-Steagal Act, then here is a slightly different slant on the problem of systematic r...
If you are of a certain age, then you remember the original Star Trek series (let's all forget about that new one that opened last month). Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy and the rest of the inte...
Nothing could illustrate the depression in the M&A markets more than the news that Christiano Ronaldo's £80 million transfer to Real Madrid ranked as the seventh largest deal in the whole of Europ...
Taking my daily dose of FT online, I was struck by the article entitled Count us in, maths experts tell regulator which, in summary, seems to boil down to the agreement by both Lord Turner and financ...