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I would like to say it amazes me that Europe’s countries are still very insular and resistant to open access and open borders for open business … but it does not. This week, it is the Germans who are being accused of protectionism. On Wednesday, Germany introduced the concept of a law that would outlaw…

BATS recently extended their market data feeds into free real-time feeds for AOL and Yahoo! Finance users. In recognition of this move, NASDAQ OMX now delivers free real-time market data to Google, the Wall Street Journal, CNBC and Xignite. Real-time market data for free on public websites for millions of consumers at home to access….

BATS recently extended their market data feeds into free real-time feeds for AOL and Yahoo! Finance users. In recognition of this move, NASDAQ OMX now delivers free real-time market data to Google, the Wall Street Journal, CNBC and Xignite. Real-time market data for free on public websites for millions of consumers at home to access….

Absolutely nothing to do with banking but, as I think of this as a dialogue, I wanted to share a few stories with the Finanser community that made me smile this week, as well as made me proud to be in Europe. First was the Swedish court case against Apoteker, the state-run pharmacy.  Two chaps…

We use the word crisis to mean danger and opportunity, and yesterday I blogged about what that means for local communities, who are using the current crisis to create local currencies. Today, it’s time to take a reality check regarding property.  For some, buying a house is an investment, for others it is a home,…

We use the word crisis to mean danger and opportunity, and yesterday I blogged about what that means for local communities, who are using the current crisis to create local currencies. Today, it’s time to take a reality check regarding property.  For some, buying a house is an investment, for others it is a home,…

We use the word crisis to mean danger and opportunity, and yesterday I blogged about what that means for local communities, who are using the current crisis to create local currencies. Today, it’s time to take a reality check regarding property.  For some, buying a house is an investment, for others it is a home,…

Following on from previous entries, U2 are now the subject of a scandalous lack of privacy when their new album, No Line on the Horizon, was filched by a tourist in the South of France.    The tourist happened to be walking past Bono’s house just as Bono stuck the demo cuts on the iPod,…

Following on from previous entries, U2 are now the subject of a scandalous lack of privacy when their new album, No Line on the Horizon, was filched by a tourist in the South of France.    The tourist happened to be walking past Bono’s house just as Bono stuck the demo cuts on the iPod,…