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Clearing – the last barrier to a financially unified Europe?

This question occurs to me because it’s top of mind with Charlie McCreevy, the European Commission and also many of the discussions taking place today in Paris at a tradeshow focused upon investment banking. Buy and sell side firms have gathered to debate algorithmic trading, dark pools of liquidity, multilateral trading facilities (MTFs), smart order…

Clearing – the last barrier to a financially unified Europe?

This question occurs to me because it’s top of mind with Charlie McCreevy, the European Commission and also many of the discussions taking place today in Paris at a tradeshow focused upon investment banking. Buy and sell side firms have gathered to debate algorithmic trading, dark pools of liquidity, multilateral trading facilities (MTFs), smart order…

PayPal gives banks a free phishing lesson

Reading the PayPal blog is worthwhile, particularly as this item appeared the other day. It’s all about stamping out phishing with Michael Barrett, chief information security officer, blogging about the ways in which PayPal were attacking this issue. As PayPal and eBay are the target of three-quarters of all phishing attacks, according to Sophos in…

PayPal gives banks a free phishing lesson

Reading the PayPal blog is worthwhile, particularly as this item appeared the other day. It’s all about stamping out phishing with Michael Barrett, chief information security officer, blogging about the ways in which PayPal were attacking this issue. As PayPal and eBay are the target of three-quarters of all phishing attacks, according to Sophos in…

PayPal gives banks a free phishing lesson

Reading the PayPal blog is worthwhile, particularly as this item appeared the other day. It’s all about stamping out phishing with Michael Barrett, chief information security officer, blogging about the ways in which PayPal were attacking this issue. As PayPal and eBay are the target of three-quarters of all phishing attacks, according to Sophos in…

First Data close down Airline

Fascinating item sent to me by a mate that says that First Data are responsible for Frontier Airlines going bankrupt in the States.  Apparently, Frontier blame First Data because they demanded a sudden jump in collateral, due to the credit crunch, and started taking a large slice of the 70% of Frontier’s revenues which they…

What keeps the CFO awake? Plates and Pirates!

There were a couple of fascinating discussions during this conference on cash and treasury – been here all week if you haven’t been reading this blog – about CFO’s.  The best of these was a panel chaired by Julia Homer, editor-in-chief of CFO Magazine, with a discussion of CFO’s major priorities. The discussion was based…

What keeps the CFO awake? Plates and Pirates!

There were a couple of fascinating discussions during this conference on cash and treasury – been here all week if you haven’t been reading this blog – about CFO’s.  The best of these was a panel chaired by Julia Homer, editor-in-chief of CFO Magazine, with a discussion of CFO’s major priorities. The discussion was based…

What keeps the CFO awake? Plates and Pirates!

There were a couple of fascinating discussions during this conference on cash and treasury – been here all week if you haven’t been reading this blog – about CFO’s.  The best of these was a panel chaired by Julia Homer, editor-in-chief of CFO Magazine, with a discussion of CFO’s major priorities. The discussion was based…

Online Banking is as good as Amazon and eBay

The fourth Foresee online financial services survey came out today, benchmarking banking websites for their engagement and satisfaction with the user.  What it finds is that online banking websites score 82 in overall satisfaction, a 12% improvement since 2003, and the best of the websites for financial services available online.  This is a great score,…