989 Results from 2010
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The image of the globe-trotting trader, dashing to the next team meeting in London, New York, Frankfurt or Shanghai is easy to imagine. But while the industry is more globalised than ever, the technology to support these on-the-move employees has been slow to catch up, until now. Much of the demand for dedicated mobile devices and software comes f...
29 November 2010 /regulation
Michael Wright ex-CEO, NED at Tilte, Taxd, Welleasy
In the recent Forrester report “Paperless Plight: Growing Resistance Outpaces Adoption” the survey of 3554 online adults revealed that only 24% had switched off paper bank statements. This is a pitiful amount – by any standards. But banks have been pleading, motivating, cajoling, bribing, forcing and greenmailing customers into signing up for onli...
28 November 2010 /security
These days it's fashionable to beat up on financial engineers and financial innovation in general, and understandably so - this discipline has been at the epicenter of the crisis we are currently facing. The creation of "financial weapons of mass destruction" is, perhaps, not the most noble of pursuits, much as, say, the design and deve...
28 November 2010
It used to be okay when Brussels’ euro meddling was limited to the banalities of life, but the remarks attributed to Kay Swinburne (Conservative MEP for Wales) yesterday seem to show a dangerous misunderstanding of how European financial markets work. The concept that dark pools are “always bad” is naive on a number of levels. Firstly, the term ‘d...
26 November 2010
Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
The Beatles are arguably one of the most successful bands of all time, but their foray into the digital music space has long been frustrated. In their first week on the iTunes store, however, the Beatles amassed a staggering 2 million individual song downloads and over 450,000 in albums sales. Not bad for a band who stopped recording music 30 year...
26 November 2010 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
It is commonly accepted that criminals react very quickly to newly-introduced security measures. Perhaps it is not surprising that as new fraud prevention technologies such as Chip and PIN and two-factor authentication have become the norm, fraudsters are already moving to the next perceived loophole - direct debits. Typically this is, as discusse...
25 November 2010 /payments
My kids have the day off today, and they each invited a friend over to "hang out" (we dare not call it a "playdate" anymore). Eventually the question of lunch arose. The question was not so much what to have (it would be pizza), but where to get it. In all there are around 8 different pizza brands that deliver to my neighborho...
24 November 2010 /payments Finance 2.0
Felitas Aguilar Global Account Manager at Dovetail Systems Ltd
It is good news that credit cards are the most popular payment method in German e-commerce for the first time. It’s also interesting that 2010 has seen a significant growth in the number of credit cards being issued in Germany with organisations such as Deutcshe Bahn and others starting to co-brand credit cards again. For example, LandesBank Baden...
24 November 2010 /payments
Nick Ogden Chairman at Ogden Research
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta recent report on the risks of mobile payment transfers, highlights the numerous security issues that must be addressed in order for widespread adoption in developed economies. Mobile payments require a whole new approach to security and this will require an unprecedented degree of cooperation between the telec...
24 November 2010 /security /payments
Saab, yes, the car company, has seen quite a bit of turmoil over the last few years. First, there was the takeover by GM and then more recently the sale to Spyker, a Dutch sports car manufacturer. Then, lately there was an announcement that for their new 9-3 model they will be using BMW engines. Now, being a long-term Saab driver, I was quite shoc...
24 November 2010
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