3349 Results from 2002
/retail
New York-based Paradata Systems has launched a new professional services group to provide custom solutions for financial organisations and other companies specialising in electronic payments.
11 January 2002
UK telephone and Internet bank First Direct has clocked up 500,000 electronic banking customers, and 100,000 subscribers for its mobile text-messaging service.
/wholesale
Advent Europe has entered an alliance with the London division of Pershing, a provider of multicurrency execution and clearing services, to co-promote their products to the UK securities marketplace.
The value of euro banknotes in circulation is set to rise above legacy national notes later today, says the European Central Bank. By the end of next week, nearly all consumer cash transactions will be conducted in euro, forecasts the ECB.
Brazillian exchange and clearing operator Cetip, has gone live with a new electronic marketplace for mortgage-backed securities (MBS), powered by ePit Systems.
/Sibos
JPMorgan Chase has expressed its displeasure at the proposed takeover of Clearstream by Deutsche Borse by publicising plans to shift all of its European custody business to arch-rival Euroclear.
/regulation
Canada-based Clarica Life Insurance Company has selected Computer Associates's Unicenter Service Desk solution to manage its IT support operations.
/security
A new survey by RBC Capital Markets and the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTia) reveals that the protection of data through the use of system area networks (SANs) has become a key priority for US corporations in the wake of the 11 September terrorist attacks on America.
Nasdaq Japan has elected Yoshiro Katsuya as president and member of the board, and CEO Tatsuyuki Saeki as chairman.
Sun Microsystems is to offer Bowstreet Web services software over the Sun ONE platform.
New Jersey-based Incurrent Solutions, a provider of Internet, voice and wireless services to card-issuing banks and transaction processors, has appointed David Hickey as chief operating officer.
Mike Bloomberg, the billionaire media mogul and Mayor of New York, has been ordered by a judge to give evidence in a court case between his company and a former associate, according to a report in The Telegraph.
10 January 2002
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