Opinion

I was invited to a conference this week and given the title of the talk as: “Why there’s a very real danger that SEPA may not happen”. As a good European who believes in the PSD and SEPA, I declined to discuss this and invited my long-time acquaintance Sir Jonathan Brit to speak on my…

I was invited to a conference this week and given the title of the talk as: “Why there’s a very real danger that SEPA may not happen”. As a good European who believes in the PSD and SEPA, I declined to discuss this and invited my long-time acquaintance Sir Jonathan Brit to speak on my…

I've seen a couple of bits of commentary in the past week about the City of London losing its strength, namely: City's dominance in doubt (Telegraph) London Ponders Its Future as Financial Powerhouse (New York Times) During the boom years of the 2000s, London competed with Frankfurt and New York to become the financial centre…

I've seen a couple of bits of commentary in the past week about the City of London losing its strength, namely: City's dominance in doubt (Telegraph) London Ponders Its Future as Financial Powerhouse (New York Times) During the boom years of the 2000s, London competed with Frankfurt and New York to become the financial centre…

There have been various arguments about Twitter in the last few months and whether the alerts tool is useful or not. I started one debate a while ago and now there is another one (maybe). First, let me set the record straight before folks think I'm a puritanically obsessed Twitterati. At a personal level, I…

I had a call the other day about the success of Chip & PIN. This is because of the latest fraud figures from APACS, which shows UK retailer fraud shrank from £73.2 million in 2005 to £37.5 million in 2008.  This year, merchant fraud has risen 26% to £47.4 million, the largest jump in criminal…

I had a call the other day about the success of Chip & PIN. This is because of the latest fraud figures from APACS, which shows UK retailer fraud shrank from £73.2 million in 2005 to £37.5 million in 2008.  This year, merchant fraud has risen 26% to £47.4 million, the largest jump in criminal…

As mentioned yesterday Andrew Silverman, Managing Director Electronic Trading for Morgan Stanley, chaired the second day session’s at TradeTech with a great dialogue about attracting liquidity between the new exchanges, the Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTFs) created by the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), and the incumbents. This led to a second discussion of the…