FSA's Financial Risk Outlook indicates continued enforcement

10 March - 04:05 PM

The Financial Services Authority's Financial Risk Outlook predicts a gradual economic recovery throughout 2010, while the suggesting that the FSA is focussing on strengthening firms' prudential positions and enforcement of existing rules to dissuade firms from...

Link Investimentos using Apama for algo trading

10 March - 03:29 PM

Link Investimentos, a large independent brokerage house in Brazil, is using the Progress Apama Algorithmic Trading Platform. The Progress Apama Algorithmic Trading Platform should enable Link Investimentos clients to create, test and implement customised...

MediBank Zug deploys Ambit Apsys Private Banking and CRM

10 March - 02:43 PM

MediBank Zug has implemented SunGard's Ambit Apsys Private Banking kit and Ambit CRM to consolidate its core banking and CRM solutions. The Ambit systems help MediBank improve flexibility and efficiency and gain a single view...

Appointments: Liquidnet names head of European Trading Desk

10 March - 02:31 PM

Drew Miyawaki has been appointed as head of European Trading Desk at Liquidnet. The Liquidnet European Trading Desk provides buy-side trading firms with order handling and execution. The agency-only trading desk works with buy-side clients...

Appointments: New Turquoise management team named

10 March - 02:25 PM

Bursa Malaysia Derivatives picks Patsystems for derivatives OMS

10 March - 11:32 AM

UBS to launch European multilateral trading facility

09 March - 08:35 AM

Appointments: CLS announces that Bozian will be chief executive

08 March - 03:04 PM

Appointments: Calastone names head of Luxembourg office

08 March - 02:59 PM

Nomura, Barclays and JPM Cazenove each take 3% of Turquoise

08 March - 02:49 PM

Tullett Prebon acquires OTC Valuations

05 March - 02:25 PM

RTS Exchange joins BT Radianz

05 March - 01:01 PM

Odyssey Financial Technologies opens its new development centre in Glasgow

05 March - 12:55 PM

Thomson Reuters: Data quality and consistency key to risk management

04 March - 03:31 PM

Appointments: New chief technical officer at Servebase

10 March - 03:09 PM

Cinnober claims reduced latency with TRADExpress version 8

10 March - 03:05 PM

Appointments: Fiserv adds Capdevila to risk and compliance team

09 March - 09:43 AM

Appointments: Gravitas names Gusick head of systems integration

09 March - 09:35 AM

Former MD of Bank of Montreal's Commodity Derivatives Group fined by New York Court

09 March - 08:44 AM

LSE sees average daily value traded up 25% in February

05 March - 01:57 PM

Accuity advances sanctions screening with compliance link

05 March - 12:44 PM

TradingScreen integrates with FMO portfolio management system

05 March - 12:40 PM

SunGard launches new derivatives stream gateways for Singapore and London

05 March - 12:36 PM

Keynote UK Banking Performance Index for 21st - 27th February

05 March - 12:30 PM

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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For Oracle to take out IBM requires more than talk

Posted on 25 February 2010 by Tom Groenfeldt

Larry Ellison has said that with the acquisition of Sun he is ready to take on IBM in the enterprise. Others don’t think so. I’ve been steadily impressed with what IBM is doing in financial services. Everyone...

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Do bonuses make you untrustworthy?

Posted on 23 February 2010 by Dan Barnes

Some new research by David De Cremer, a professor at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and visiting professor to the London School of Economics, raises a few interesting questions about bonuses, the main one...

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Is the universal banking approach redundant?

12 February - 08:00 AM

Universal banks have become unwieldy beasts. Their complexity more than their size is making large revenues indigestible, producing smaller profits. This an issue that technology departments are struggling to resolve. This complexity also fuels the...

Getting savvy to business intelligence

12 February - 07:45 AM

The low point of any banking executive's career is usually prefaced with the phrase "I don't know." Whatever the ratio of risk to reward, getting your sums right is essential. And for that you need...

Keeping the customer ...

12 February - 07:45 AM

Retaining existing customers is much cheaper than acquiring new customers, the best propects for new sales are the customers a bank already has, and customers become more profitable as a bank sells them more products. ...

My word, my bond

12 February - 06:34 AM

During the financial crisis high volatility, illiquidity and wider spreads drove many bond market participants to trade on the phone instead of on electronic platforms. Not surprisingly, sell side firms were reluctant to invest in...

Comment: Great expectations for HNWIs

11 February - 10:16 PM

Times have been bleak for high net worth individuals, but they are set to recover. The Economist Intelligence Unit estimates that through 2012, the number of HNWIs will grow by 8% per annum while the...