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Paul Penrose

Hey you, get off my cloud

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...

16 Jul 2009
Finance 2.0
Paul Blank

Cementing FX relationship with single dealer portals

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...

15 Jul 2009
Paul Penrose

Goldman fans flames for conspiracy theorists

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 ...

10 Jul 2009
Whatever...
Olivier Berthier

Cash, Trade and the new customer stickiness

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...

09 Jul 2009
Financial Supply Chain
A Finextra Member

That's the way we've always done it

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...

08 Jul 2009
Electronic Bank Account Management
A Finextra Member

Lessons for Risk Management - Wilmott and Rowe

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"...

03 Jul 2009
Data Management 101
Paul Penrose

Micrososft sweats on TradElect review

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...

02 Jul 2009
A Finextra Member

Over The Counter Arguments

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...

02 Jul 2009
Data Management 101
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Risk in the Hands of the Holder?

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...

30 Jun 2009
Data Management 101
A Finextra Member

Trading Dilithium on the Intergalactic Exchange

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...

22 Jun 2009
Innovation in Financial Services
Paul Penrose

Ronaldo dribbles into European merger league

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...

16 Jun 2009
Whatever...
John Cant

Quants plead not to be ruled out of risk management equation

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...

10 Jun 2009
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