1205 Results from 2008
Alan Goodrich Regional Sales Manager at ERI
Seriously, those of faint disposition should have a cushion handy to hide behind! How often do we read about and debate the moral dilemma of mere mortals "playing God" in areas such as medicine, e.g. stem cell research, and physics, e.g. creating anti-matter – but do we ever have that debate in financial services? On the publicly availabl...
01 February 2008 /regulation Trends in Financial Services
Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire
Sunday my daughter got an e-mail purporting to be from Natwest saying that someone had been trying to access her Online Banking. E-mail said they had temporarily disabled her Online Account and if she wanted to use it again she had to go and re-confirm her identity. She clicked on the link supplied, which led to (what she now knows to be) a facsim...
31 January 2008 /security Whatever...
Retired Member
Have a look at Creative Capital for some figures on a drop-off in both visitor numbers and more crucially the time spent on social networking sites in the U.S. MySpace showed a drop in engagement time of almost a quarter. So are people spending less time on these sites because the sites have improved and they are getting more done, more quickly - ...
31 January 2008
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
In a desperate bid to restore its failing fortunes, online broker E*Trade has decided to splash out on two thirty-second advertisements to air during Super Bowl XLI, the coveted prime commercial spot on American TV. E*Trade says it has augmented its 2008 marketing spend by 30% over 2007, as it looks to restore consumer faith in its brand, which ha...
31 January 2008 Video extravaganza
A study by researchers at New Zealand's Massey University has found that customers lose faith in the security of online banking systems as the number of authentication checks they have to go through increases. Researchers Hokyoung Ryu and Kansi Zhang found that although enhanced security measures for Web banking may make the process "technic...
31 January 2008 /security
Steve Ellis Founder at Finextra Research
Mashable reports Reuters has announced Calais, an open API for automatic content tagging aimed at bloggers and content publishers. The Calais web site offers a $5,000 bounty to any developer quick off the mark with a WordPress plug-in for Calais. I can't confirm if this is actually 'news' as there is nothing formally announced on reuters.com (very ...
30 January 2008 Finance 2.0
O2 have cut the monthly price for iPhone users - which as of yesterday included me - hurrah. I had been looking to replace my iPod and dodgy phone - and ideally wanted something that did proper web browsing and actually made calls with some degree of success. Google maps on the iPhone is astonishing. Press a button and it works out where you are...
30 January 2008
John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd
With thoughts switching from MiFID compliance to the post MiFID impact on markets, here is a brief summary of some research on the probable impact on smaller European equity markets. The traditional view is that with MiFID small national exchanges will cease to exist as they will be wiped out by the major exchanges/MTFs that MiFID facilitates. How...
28 January 2008 /wholesale MiFID
With the amazing speed & success of Google, cloud computing has emerged as the leading edge paradigm of computing architectures. The "newness" (or "fogginess", as the cynical banker is apt to think!) of this concept can be gauged from the fact that a Google search "define: cloud computing" results in zero results...
28 January 2008 Trends in Financial Services
On 5th March 1995 Dutch banking and insurance group ING bought Barings for £1 and assumed liabilities of over $600m. According to some McKinsey research presented by Mark Lawrence at a PRMIA event I attended in London on 18th December 2006, based on a sample of more than 350 operational loss events, normalized for industry performance, the decline ...
28 January 2008 /regulation Trends in Financial Services
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