Robert Peston, the BBC’s lead reporter on the banks throughout this crisis and author of: Who Runs Britain?, presented a discussion I attended the other night. Robert surprisingly used a PowerPoint presentation to talk through this theme. I say surprisingly as we’re so used to seeing him sit and talk for soundbite minutes, that a…
The conference that Johnny Brit addressed was attended by around 300 people, mostly bankers and payments solutions providers from across Europe. Throughout the conference, interactive electronic voting was used to gauge people's views of the markets, the economic crisis and the implementation of SEPA. Here are the results. The first question was: What is the…
The conference that Johnny Brit addressed was attended by around 300 people, mostly bankers and payments solutions providers from across Europe. Throughout the conference, interactive electronic voting was used to gauge people's views of the markets, the economic crisis and the implementation of SEPA. Here are the results. The first question was: What is the…
Tomorrow, there's an interesting little conference called "AV in the City" down at Canary Wharf. Not your usual event as it's all about multimedia projectors and CCTV for banks and financial firms. I got roped into it as one of my strong beliefs is in using video for finance, as mentioned before, and TANDBERG is…
Tomorrow, there's an interesting little conference called "AV in the City" down at Canary Wharf. Not your usual event as it's all about multimedia projectors and CCTV for banks and financial firms. I got roped into it as one of my strong beliefs is in using video for finance, as mentioned before, and TANDBERG is…
There's a conference in Brussels over the last two days looking at moving towards a new supervisory architecture across Europe. This follows on from the de Larosière report in February and Charlie McCrrevy has announced a variety of changes in EU regulatory structures. In one speech, Mr. McCreevy reinforces the need for the 5% rule…
There's a conference in Brussels over the last two days looking at moving towards a new supervisory architecture across Europe. This follows on from the de Larosière report in February and Charlie McCrrevy has announced a variety of changes in EU regulatory structures. In one speech, Mr. McCreevy reinforces the need for the 5% rule…
I wondered recently about the potential of market abuse in new social media. This was inspired by an April Fool from the Insurance Post, which had the headline: "FSA proposes ban on social networking sites". "The Financial Services Authority has called for a ban of social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook for all…
