477 Results from 2007
Retired Member
Fueled by the explosive growth of emerging markets and the never-ending maintenance curse in developed economies, infrastructure appears poised to be one of the main growth engines in capital markets for the foreseeable future. It represents an attractive opportunity for both the sell and buy sides. Debt ceilings and political pressures have ste...
25 October 2007
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
Catch this hilarious video of Damian McMeekin, ANZ's global head of security having his identity stolen by ABC TV's Julian Morrow at the annual Combatting Identity Fraud summit in Australia earlier this month. As McMeekin is called to give his presentation a wigged-out Morrow beats him to the lectern and starts lecturing the audience on the peril...
25 October 2007 /security /retail Video extravaganza
Russell Burke Senior Payments & E-Money Authorisation Specialist at The Central Bank of Ireland
This story which deals with an interesting subject. Who actually benefits from a shift away from the traditional use of cash? Ultimately the economy of a country should benefit the use of more efficient, electronic payments rather than the slower and more costly forms of payment such as cash and cheques. Whether this manifests itself as lower ...
25 October 2007 /payments
Alan Goodrich Regional Sales Manager at ERI
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Ann Cairns, at the Financial Services Club, giving her personal perspective on "Managing technology change in the financial services industry". For those who don't know, Ann is CEO of Transaction Banking at ABN Amro, having joined ABN Amro in 2002, after 15 years at Citigroup wor...
25 October 2007 /payments Financial Supply Chain
Interesting story in The Register that seems to show that Windows update has been installing a resource-hogging item on machines. Yes - even more resource hogging than Windows normally is. So if your XP machine seems to grind to a shuddering halt - perhaps this is why? As you can imagine, long suffering sys admin types are not best pleased.
25 October 2007 /security
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 typically define their IT investments across three criteria - as low risk (“stay in the race” projects to improve basic services), medium risk (“win t...
25 October 2007 /retail /wholesale Trends in Financial Services
The "cash still king" story on Finextra caught my eye. Something about all this talk of replacing cash has been bothering me. It's all very well the banks trumpeting that you can use various contactless payment cards in the Starbucks of the world. I don't like the coffee in Starbucks. And I don't want to buy something in WH Smiths on th...
24 October 2007
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 and drink) and want to endorse this book to anyone out there with the faintest interest in economics, US financial policy and business in general. “...
24 October 2007 /wholesale Trends in Financial Services
A survey by hosting company Rackspace shows that 62 percent of respondents are concerned and are either acting already or looking at ways of reducing the impact they have on the environment. The rest presumably don't care. Shame on them. Just over half are willing to pay 5 to 10 percent extra for a "green" option and around the same are ...
24 October 2007 Going green
Two years ago in 2005, GE agreed to buy a 7% stake in Shenzhen Development Bank, which at the time was worth US$100M. However, the deal had been held up due due to disagreements amongst the shareholders, one of which was the private equity group TPG. Most of the disagreements centred around government requirements on share restructuring as the i...
24 October 2007 Asia Financial Services
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