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Atso Andersen Head of Corporate Relations at Aalto University
Hope US authorities have written the script before the play. Skilled but not wise traders made record profits at the cost of others. It was a moral meltdown, all the way. Another Enron, but larger, one could say. Now these traders turn into huge weapons of mass destruction themselves. Middlemen at the heart of global financial flows turned out to ...
25 April 2010 /regulation
Compare share turnover ratios of Nasdaq US and NasdaqOMX Nordic exchanges: 1040% vs. 140% in October 2009 (see figure here). Trading is seven times more active in the Nasdaq US. Spring 2010 will bring the same technology to Nordic exchanges where the same large international players are already present. Shall we see some heavy trading in previousl...
05 January 2010
It is indirect, the industry representatives used to say. Then the stories went to the difficulty to provide climate change- or sustainability-oriented mutual fund products as they underperform the main indexes. Finally, we have this payments related e-invoicing story which is to the point and of high importance! But to really understand how Finan...
03 November 2009
Not a one finance professional has even smiled on this comparison. Odd, because these verbs are almost synonyms meaning similar activity - cleaning the cowshed after risks have realised and diseased production stock removed. So please my reader do not mind and take a step back. In both Chinese milk crisis and financial crisis the methodology of sup...
08 June 2009 /security /regulation
I wrote a blog post "slaves of leverage" [thank you for the comments] in Nov 2008. Now you see it happening: pension systems are seriously damaged, taxpayers' money is poured into banks, goverments are borrowing too much. Simply enslaving. But have we seen this mess resolved? No we have not. Instead uncertainty prevails. As prevails fear...
27 February 2009
Is this crisis the end of social lending? Yes and no. Majority of the social lending services which have been shut down (Prosper and Zopa US, to name the famous ones) were actually more like traditional banks presenting themselves as new kind of financial institutions. Prosper was a bank with a core idea to securitize loans. Zopa US facilitated th...
29 January 2009 /payments /retail
I attended a Hindu wedding in New Delhi last week. Met a banker from Dubai and asked about real-estate. He said: leveraged, and massively. Leverage was the key word and I saw it. We are slaves of leverage, all of us christians, muslims, hindus, we are all dependent on leverage. Regard this in the context of co-ordinated rate cuts and regulatory re...
27 November 2008 /regulation
Just wanted to share this wonderful emerging trend amidst these traumatic times. BT announced September 29th to provide managed security services for Euroclear. That includes: security monitoring capabilities to Euroclear that will allow real-time monitoring, correlation and analysis of Euroclear’s security infrastructure and critical applications...
14 October 2008
The phenomenon of social networking is becoming increasingly popular and the number of web tools that facilitate online conversation and interaction are growing. Millions of people are now exploiting these tools to share ideas, experiences and perspectives on a range of issues. As the social networking phenomenon evolves, individuals are becom
16 September 2008 /sibos
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