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Believe me, I went looking for a worthy blog post for today--maybe something on the 'LSE failing to grab the OTC derivatives bull by the exchange-traded horns'--but of course, this little number caugh...
The US justice department's investigation of the CDS market is probably more a reflection of the changing political attitudes surrounding credit derivatives rather than a discovery of criminal behavio...
You can usualy be sure that if you see a feature update on the lives of teenagers (what gadgets they are using what slang falls from their mounths...that kind of thing) you can be sure that the inform...
The mainstream media has been discussing this week, the new instructions to the Financial Services Authority from the UK's chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling. All of a sudden the goverment a...
One of my former collegues once started a panel discussion on buy side technology by saying "Technology means nothing unless it has a business use." He had a very valid point. The trendiest,...
Which region experiences the least amount of online banking fraud? Is it the one with the most stringent regulations or with the most investment in expensive, state-of-the-art fraud protection softwar...
At the Payment Markets Insight into Central and Eastern Europe panel discussion at this week's EBADay in Vienna I did not expect to hear a (minor) diss to the mighty Swift. Hermann Fürstenau, sales ma...
I saw this last night and thought it was brilliant. Watch for the "Bear Sterns will NOT go under..." and "Lehman Brothers is NOT Bear Stearns..." comments. A sad comment on the st...
The FT helpfully printed the full Paul Moore memo in today's paper here. To be honest his claim that he was replaced by a manager, at the approval of the CEO, with no previous risk management experie...