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Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
I had an interesting conversation today with Steve Rubinow, CTO of NYSE Euronext. Just over a year after the third phase of NYSE’s Hybrid trading system went live, heralding the massive shift away from the floor and specialist trading, HP’s PR people contacted me this week with an announcement that the Hybrid system is running on HP Non-stop and bl...
13 December 2007 /wholesale Trends in Financial Services
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
While doing a bit of research into high performance computing for our capital markets conference Finexpo, I stumbled across this article in Business Week on the Betfair gambling exchange. It seems that London-based Betfair has developed a new trading engine dubbed Flywheel, which is capable of handling 100,000 transactions per second and five mill...
04 December 2007 /wholesale Finexpo
Retired Member
I was quite intrigued back in October when I was walking around the exhibition halls at SIBOS in Boston to see how many software vendors on the corporate actions side were promoting their solutions for custodians, brokers and funds as STP. It seems to me we need to disconnect the marketing hype from the extremely fragmented reality of corporate a...
29 November 2007 /wholesale SWIFT Matters
I attended an interesting roundtable held by Omgeo this morning. Kicking off the discussion, Omgeo's industry relations manager Tony Freeman reported a few things he'd heard at a recent ISITC event that supported his view that globalisation and diversification of increasingly complex tradeable instrument types is taking the market into new territor...
28 November 2007 /wholesale Trends in Financial Services
My moles tell me that STP stalwart Tony Kirby is getting his fingers green courtesy of a stint of gardening leave from Accenture. Tony's been around the block a few times, taking on roles at Swift, GSTPA, Bolero, Reuters, Deutsche Bourse, and SmartStream, before pitching up at Accenture as UK regional sales director and associate partner of data m...
28 November 2007 /wholesale Where are they now?
It's always seemed strange to me that people only get really interested in withholding tax when economic times start getting tough. The sub-prime mess which has led to a range of spin-off crises at banks (retail and wholesale) and brokers, seems to be raising this old penny again. I guess its not really surprising given human nature - when times...
26 November 2007 /regulation /wholesale
At last week’s Forum for Innovation in Financial Services, organised by Finextra, we had some excellent presentations from James Gardner at Lloyds TSB and Pol Navarro of Banco Sabadell giving insight into how these particular banks are approaching the challenge of managing a formal innovation programme. The subsequent panel discussion also involve...
15 November 2007 /retail /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
A new report from Deloitte Research on M&A trends contains some interesting findings. Although it is based on a wide survey of active acquirers earlier this year, when deal value and volumes were still high, the report positions itself as offering advice for M&A strategy in today's uncertain economic climate. The survey looked at what per...
15 November 2007 /wholesale Finextra50 fintech index
Citibank has standardised its core banking systems worldwide on the Flexcube product from i-flex. The implementation of the product at Citi's markets and banking divisions in 67 countries is the culmination of seven years of work. Steve Randich, chief information officer, Citi markets & banking, hailed the implementation as "an unparallel...
14 November 2007 /retail /wholesale
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 dishevelled Columbo-styled investigative reporter who covered the fintech beat for the Banker back in the late 1980s. He was also the man behind the scu...
08 November 2007 /retail /wholesale Where are they now?
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