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NYC Quantitative Modeling & Financial Market Dynamics

World renowned experts will be speaking at Quantitative Modeling & Financial Market Dynamics , to be held from 4-8 pm Oct. 31 at 7city Learning, 55 Broad Street. This first annual QuantDay event will be hosted by Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), in conjunction with Wilmott magazine, 7city Learning and Quantstar. Speakers at the QuantDay event…

NYC Quantitative Modeling & Financial Market Dynamics

World renowned experts will be speaking at Quantitative Modeling & Financial Market Dynamics , to be held from 4-8 pm Oct. 31 at 7city Learning, 55 Broad Street. This first annual QuantDay event will be hosted by Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), in conjunction with Wilmott magazine, 7city Learning and Quantstar. Speakers at the QuantDay event…

Virgin to buy Northern Rock

We've had a long summer of discontent in the financial markets, with the run on Northern Rock in the UK being one of the biggest banking scandals (the last bank run was over a century ago in Britain). So it is interesting to hear the breaking news story from the BBC today that Virgin may…

Deutsche Bank: refreshing innovations

Funny how things come together as yesterday I noted RBS´s recruitment fair in Second Life and then I sat in a presentation from Deutsche Bank on Second Life. Actually, it was a presentation on how to emulate the bank experience in real life in Second Life, which is what Michael Tirpitz, Marketing Director, set out…

Deutsche Bank: refreshing innovations

Funny how things come together as yesterday I noted RBS´s recruitment fair in Second Life and then I sat in a presentation from Deutsche Bank on Second Life. Actually, it was a presentation on how to emulate the bank experience in real life in Second Life, which is what Michael Tirpitz, Marketing Director, set out…

Deutsche Bank: refreshing innovations

Funny how things come together as yesterday I noted RBS´s recruitment fair in Second Life and then I sat in a presentation from Deutsche Bank on Second Life. Actually, it was a presentation on how to emulate the bank experience in real life in Second Life, which is what Michael Tirpitz, Marketing Director, set out…

Deutsche Bank: refreshing innovations

Funny how things come together as yesterday I noted RBS´s recruitment fair in Second Life and then I sat in a presentation from Deutsche Bank on Second Life. Actually, it was a presentation on how to emulate the bank experience in real life in Second Life, which is what Michael Tirpitz, Marketing Director, set out…

RBS host a ‘career fair’ in Second Life

After successfully bidding for and winning the ABN AMRO game, with the consortia gaining 86% support on Monday, as mentioned here last Thursday before Barclays withdrew last Friday (confused already?) … Royal Bank of Scotland are now following BNP Paribas’ example and hiring staff in Second Life.  But this is not just hiring staff, but…

A Bank is a Bank Is a Bank, Except….

When it’s not, Geoffrey Moore says. The author of Dealing with Darwin, Inside the Tornado, Crossing the Chasm explained to Teradata users why analytics is such fast-growing tool in mature businesses, like banking. "You walk into some banks and say it’s cool. Or you like a Web site or a loyalty card at a supermarket….

A Bank is a Bank Is a Bank, Except….

When it’s not, Geoffrey Moore says. The author of Dealing with Darwin, Inside the Tornado, Crossing the Chasm explained to Teradata users why analytics is such fast-growing tool in mature businesses, like banking. "You walk into some banks and say it’s cool. Or you like a Web site or a loyalty card at a supermarket….