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In an FT article a few days back, Jay Hooley of State Street raised some concerns around the impact of OTC volumes on legacy systems. In my experience many firms today have developed limited capabil...
I wrote a cheque the other day. Only a small one; it was a present to a relative. A not very imaginative present, yes, but there you go. It got me thinking, though. If cheques disappeared, how woul...
We’ve heard much about how bankers have been rewarded too much for doing too little. And we’ve mainly heard it from politicians. So, now I’m going to give the bankers a break. As long as I can remembe...
Here at Finextra we've been keeping a close eye on the progress of One HSBC, an ambitious five year programme that aims to migrate the bank's global operations onto a single technology platform. It w...
Wouldn't it be nice to have everyone speak the same language? Definitely no political motive - move right along - nothing to see here. Just trying to make sure we agree a common phrasebook. Simply gi...
Would it be fair to say that the regulators should care about all types of legitimate participants even for market operators? The climate for institutional investors is not extremely warm after MiFID,...
If there were more women in top positions within banks and other financial institutions, would the credit crunch have happened? According to Gillian Wilmot’s comment in the FT, apparently not (http://...
A recent Tabb report ‘The Enterprise Spreadsheet: Pushing towards Transparency’ highlights how firms continue to rely on spreadsheets at every level - serving as the modelling laboratory, negotiatio...
When did Banks get too Big? Banks used to be small. Then that all changed. Banks bought each other. Banks got bigger and fewer. The only real kind of bank was one that was global, and carried out ever...
Interesting comment reported on the BBC website this morning. Gary Hoffman is quoted as saying (about the resumption of lending): "We can now return to what we do well - mortgage lending." ...
I thought the video interview with Steve Abrams of Mastercard was quite interesting. Just as I suspected, Mastercard was not aware of the existing patent which does not belong to ORBISCOM. His respon
...or desperate, or trying to send me a message that is too subtle for my limited imagination...? They're teaching some pretty weird stuff about managing customer relationships in the marketing classe...