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Zennon Kapron

The Changing State of Equity trading in China

Critical to the continued growth of the Chinese economy is the further development of the financial services industry. Once highly protected and staid, the industry has opened up significantly since C...

06 Apr 2010
Asia Financial Services
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Transiting to open-loop contactless payments

If you don’t live in a large city, the revolution in mass transit payments that has taken place over the last few years may have passed you by. Cities as far apart as Melbourne, Beijing, London, Salt ...

01 Apr 2010
Information Security
Bo Harald

Where do innovations come from?

Where do digital innovations come from? From investing in research? From investing in infrastructure? From investing in education? From investing in enterprises? Or from investing in speeding up adopt...

01 Apr 2010
Innovation in Financial Services
Bo Harald

All of Europe moving to equal treatment

The EU-commission proposal to simplify and unify - and thus speed up -migration to electronic invoicing – especially for SMEs – has now gained EU-wide support. A key element in the new VAT directive i...

01 Apr 2010
Innovation in Financial Services
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Voice verification - for mobile banking security?

If you are a user of a mobile banking service, you can experience the ease of accessing your account balance, last statement, but when it comes to transactions, bill payments, it gets challenging. On ...

01 Apr 2010
Innovation in Financial Services
Paul Gow

Queen opens new CJC offices in City of London

We’re very excited to announce the opening of our new head office in London, and are honoured that the Queen was able to join us for this grand opening! It’s a little known fact that CJC’s full compan...

01 Apr 2010
Keith Appleyard

Barnet Council loss of personal data about former Students

Barnet Council reports a data loss affecting about 9,000 Students who were in year 11 across 3 Academic Years from 2006 - 2009 which was stolen in a domestic burglary earlier in March. The computer eq...

31 Mar 2010
Whatever...
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Win a credit card dispute and lose brand integrity

Many of my discussions are about how financial institutions can improve their processes to serve customers better, improve their brand and reduce costs. It seems that during tough times, and when cust...

30 Mar 2010
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Time to advance payments filtering techniques

When you consider the payments filtering techniques used by banks a decade ago, advancements have clearly been made. But when you compare this to the real-time, high capacity capabilities found in the...

30 Mar 2010
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The Best Execution Myth

MiFID has been in for a few years now and it's had a tremendous impact on European markets but unfortunately not all good. The very laudable objectives that MiFID addresses really cause the failure of...

30 Mar 2010
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Lost in translation?

Like the terms ‘Golden Record' and ‘Golden Copy' before it, we are no doubt hearing the use of the term XBRL as the ‘new' thing to standardizing data and reducing corporate action announcement risk. ...

29 Mar 2010
XBRL Discussion Group
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The neutering of decision makers

At last weeks Fix Protocol (FPL) conference there was the expected presentations from all the usual suspects. Expert people from leading organisations in the securities market all debated the problems...

29 Mar 2010

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