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Deutsche Börse Systems selects Equinix as strategic data centre provider

15 July - 09:36 AM

Deutsche Börse Systems has signed a strategic data centre services contract with Equinix under which Equinix will host a new main data centre for Deutsche Börse Group in Frankfurt from next year. The site, which...

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SunGard: banks not ready for risk regulations

14 July - 02:40 PM

The regulatory world of risk management is changing and many banks are unprepared. "Banks are in a circular conversation with dates heading toward us rather rapidly," according to Marcus Cree, solutions director for SunGard's Adaptiv...

New online private bank live with Temenos

14 July - 12:29 PM

BforBank, a new online subsidiary of Crédit Agricole Regional Banks and Crédit Agricole , has gone live with the TemenosT24 core banking platform. BforBank is an online private bank offering savings, life insurance, mutual funds...

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Xtrakter consults on development of European trade repository

08 July - 11:01 AM

Xtrakter, the OTC post trade services and data provider, is consulting with its users and other market representatives on the development of a European managed trade repository for all asset classes. "Given our position as a major reporting...

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JP Morgan Ramps up for International Trade Growth

Posted on 29 July 2010 by Tom Groenfeldt


Looks like JP Morgan expects the global economy will bounce back in the next couple of years. The bank has announced that under the leadership of Global Trade Executive Daniel Cotti, J.P. Morgan is expanding...

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US Bank and Overdrafts – Preserve Fees or Mobile Alerts?

Posted on 29 July 2010 by Tom Groenfeldt


In response to new regulations in the US restricting overdraft fees, banks have the choice of trying to preserve the fees or use mobile alerts to allow consumers to move funds and avoid overdraft fees,...

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Can bankers get honest about their charges?

Posted on 26 February 2010 by Tom Groenfeldt


Ah, for the good old days when bankers made money by providing useful services – taking deposits and making loans, for example. Is it too much to expect bankers to make money honestly rather than...

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Global markets: London v New York

22 June - 01:00 PM

The Global Financial Centres Report 2010, produced by the City of London Corporation and Z-Yen, has for the first time set London and New York on a par, as joint world leaders. Historically, London and...

Co-location: it's a small world

28 June - 03:11 PM

Has anyone started talking about nanotrading yet? If not it's only a matter of time: as the scale of securities trading grows, the technology that the systems run on is shrinking, and that is already...

Roundtable: changing times in payments

27 June - 07:23 AM

At the recent EBAday event in Luxembourg, Banking Technology gathered a group of banks and technology providers to discuss the changes that are taking place in the payments market, and where the opportunities and threats...

Comment: A unified front against financial crime

25 June - 12:38 PM

In the last year, the financial services industry received a rousing reminder of the profound damage that increasingly complex financial schemes and fraud can inflict on their reputation and bottom line. Analysts estimate that financial...

Payments: the hub of the matter

25 June - 03:04 AM

"We are giving the client the ability to have increased visibility into the payment life cycle regardless of the channel or how the payments are initiated," says Milton Santiago, senior vice president for portal strategy...