Nick Ogden, CEO and founder of Voice Commerce (he previously created WorldPay, the RBS payments unit, back in 1993 and sold it to them in 2002*), recently spoke at the FSClub about using voice biometrics as part of authentication in mobile financial transactions. Who are Voice Commerce Group? Best to read what they say about…
Jamie Dimon’s letter to JPMorgan Chase’s shareholders included a whole section on the crisis and his solutions. Because Tim Geithner and Barack Obama listen to every word Jamie utters, I think it's worth reproducing the whole section here to see whether, in a year or so, his recommendations are implemented: “Banks are not fighting regulation…
I recently wrote a little piece about CESR, the EU Securities Regulator, and their update to Dark Pools regulations. It got quite a reaction, including feedback from some of the dark pools regulators themselves, who 'corrected' the view that the Best Bid-Offer had been updated by making it clear that nothing had actually changed recently….
There was a great panel session at the IPS payments show this week on the future of regulation. Here are a few choice quotes: “This is the G20-isation of regulations.”Philippe Mongars of the Banque de France “By the end of 2010, there will be an agreement of a new macroprudential supervisory structure by the G20…
I've been studying developments in the Middle East lately, and particularly the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The GCC has been running since 1981 and comprises six core states of the Persia Gulf Region: the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Qatar. The GCC is a bit like the EU, which formally…
As folks who read this blog regularly know, I often return to the theme of latency and high frequency trading (HFT). So a friend tipped me to look at the SEC's latest consultation document released in January on trading in American equities markets. Interesting section at the bottom of page 62: Latency of Consolidated Data….
Solving the bonus questions I’m fed up with the argument about bonuses and cannot believe it still rumbles on after a year of debate and G20 meetings. With Barclays announcing record profits last week, and therefore increased bonuses, the media latched onto this angle more than the fact that Barclays, UBS, Goldman Sachs and others…
Cayman – the bank’s main loophole? Three times this week, I’ve come across dodgy dealings by banks in the Caymans to avoid taxation. The first is the Portuguese Bank BCP, or Banco Comercial Portugues SA to give it its proper name. In a detailed report in Bloomberg Markets Magazine, they recount the story of billionaire…
