1135 Results from 2009
Retired Member
There’s no gamekeeper like an ex-poacher, and no saint as devout as the sinner that repenteth. Once people change their minds about something, they tend to overdo it. The past year has seen a rush by previously sceptical tier 1 and tier 2 banks towards the promised land of the single-dealer platform. The goal is to provide an online offering that s...
03 November 2009 /wholesale
Well, the Grand Prix season is over for another year. All that remains is for Finextra to award the bottle of champagne to the winner of the Finextra Formula One League: And the Winning team is: Kinvig's Krips That'll be me then. Woohoo!!!!!! Thanks to everyone who took part. The 2010 season begins next March, in Bahrain....same again next ye...
03 November 2009 After hours
Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research
Those that are regular readers of my blogs will recognise the news today that the government is splitting up the bailed out banks, which was always my preferred way of getting a return for the tax payer. Today marks the beginning of the long plod back to normality where the government withdraws from the private sector and the high street banks are...
03 November 2009
"I believe what we have here is a better deal for the taxpayer," so says Alastair Darling. No it isn't. The best thing for the taxpayer is for these institutions to be nursed back to health as they are and the shares sold on the open market at a profit - later. Carving up the banks is not good on so many levels: 1) Selling branches. ...
03 November 2009 /retail Transaction Banking
An interesting news item caught my eye this morning on the BBC News website, that I thought might prove of use/amusement/alarm to you. Interesting that Lord Myners also thinks that there is no long term value to high frequency trading, instead believing that “the process risked destroying the relationship between an investor and a company”. Later ...
03 November 2009 Innovation in Financial Services
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...
The US has been drafting laws covering internet copyright, libel, protection of sources etc. The UK libel laws are somewhat fierce but I don't know whether the finextra.com gives any protection. There has been some radioactive discussion on the wording with previously bloggers left out and here is the latest version of what or who constitutes a 'co...
03 November 2009 Whatever...
Anthony Hilton made a statement in his Evening Standard column that the world's corporates will be looking to refinance massively as the global economic crisis begins to subside. We are both on the same wave length, as I made the same Tsunami analogy at a recent Corporate Actions conference in New York. The point being is that if the securities in...
02 November 2009
Iosif Itkin CEO at Exactpro
There is a set of vendor solutions available already to provide EBBO. Technology development and competition will enable buy-side to obtain a reasonable benchmark for the best-execution. On the other hand, regulators should carefully assess demands for changing market data prices, as revenues from market data services are accompanied by the costs ...
01 November 2009 MiFID
Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional
There are so many watch lists maintained across the world. The FATF maintains one, FINCEN, and so does Interpol. Reportedly the FBI keeps getting 1600 new 'suggestions' everyday for its list! See here http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/31/AR2009103102141.html?hpid=moreheadlines We need a comparable list of Internet fraudst...
01 November 2009 /security /regulation
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