477 Results from 2007
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A friend of mine recently returned from Egypt and I was reminded of sourcing efforts in North Africa. HP have led the way here with some work in French speaking countries, however the African market as a whole still has some way to go. Of course South Africa is by far the largest opportunity, with English widely spoken and a good measure of investm...
11 June 2007
Maybe after MiFID we’ll need to change the way that we use English. Why do we call off-exchange trading “Over The Counter”? (because we don’t think of on-exchange trading as being “under the counter”, do we). Many of us would find it hard to explain the difference in English between a trade and a transaction – yet trade reporting and transaction...
See also Recovering Bank Charges - 1Recovering Bank Charges - 2Recovering Bank Charges - 3Recovering Bank Charges - 4Money Saving ExpertBBC Story Yesterday£100,00 fund to fight charges Good news! I first made contact with the bank re: my charges on March 9th, this weekend I finally got my Data Protection release form to allow the bank, which hold...
11 June 2007 /retail UK Faster Payments
On the flight back to London from another successful EBAday (www.ebaday.com) I had the closing video sound track in my head. We aptly selected Europe’s Final Countdown as anyone involved with SEPA will appreciate that the final countdown is well and truly on. Two days later I still had the Final Countdown rocking in my head so I decided to downloa...
08 June 2007 /payments /retail EBAday
Interested in peoples thoughts on this topic - how will the typical trading desk be look in the next 5-15 years? Some themes to start the ball rolling... Will traders (in the human sense) be actually involved or will they finally have been replaced by a rack of servers? To me this is a real possibility on some flow desks.What about the physical i...
08 June 2007 Capital Markets Technology
In a more competitive MiFID world, will exchanges admit all EEA listed equities for trading? It seems like they either continue to be a domestic “corner shop”, just offering local produce in competition to new bank/broker-driven execution venues that can trade every equity in the world, or they turn into a “hypermarket” where you can buy absolute...
08 June 2007
See also - Blogging can hurt your employability 1 I was sitting in the waiting room at the Doctors this morning reading an old copy of Cosmopolitan; well I'd never buy a copy - far too raunchy for me! I noticed they now run a section on careers and Corrine Dauncey a careers expert with www.tiptopjob.com gave some good advice on answering the quest...
07 June 2007 /security /regulation Data Protection Act Issues
John Doyle’s blog about “The SWIFT Future” has had my fingers twitching for a couple of weeks, and as nobody else is joining in…. SWIFT plays a very important role in a changing market. Its role has changed, as the market has changed. It was created to put together a solution for cross-border payments in a world where there were no global network...
06 June 2007
Steve Ellis Founder at Finextra Research
Not sure if Ron Dembo is still involved with Algorithmics - or indeed with financial technology - but TechCrunch's Michael Arrington tracked him down to a new start up called Zerofootprint, a not-for-profit that aims to help save the planet.
06 June 2007 Where are they now?
Yes – that age old question. Is it the buy-side firm that puts in its order that owns the data, or is it the broker who executes the order, or the exchange on which the order is executed, or the data vendor who delivers the data to the end-user? One thing that you notice about financial markets: if something is worth something, nobody gives it awa...
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