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I got a nice email from mortgage rates today, with the following opening: The housing boom helped the economy dramatically, however as the boom came to a crash in 2006, things took a swift turn into economic gloom and doom, bringing it to the economic crash still fresh in everyone’s memories. We created an infographic…

We are pleased to provide our eighth month of monitoring the MTF performances in European Equities trading, in partnership with Thomson Reuters Equity Market Share Reporter (EMSR).  Market Share based upon Euro Value October 2010 September 2010  Source: Thomson Reuters Equity Market Share Reporter   Market Share based upon Volume of Trading October 2010 September 2010  Source: Thomson…

Fancy a tongue twister? Howsabout bankers big bonuses bashed by broadcasters but better being bashed by bank bosses. Nah.  Doesn't quite work as well as six swans swimming, swim swans swim, six swans swam, well swum swans, but it almost works.  What's all this about? Well, Bloomberg released the latest news on bankers' bonuses this…

 I love that phrase: “the elephant in the room”. It just conjures up this image of everyone sitting and not realising there’s a great big grey beast with a trunk sitting behind their chair. Photo source: Venture Beat Of course, that’s the image it’s meant to conjure but what is the elephant in the room…

Gabriel Shalom, who made the fantastic future of money film with Venessa Meimis, just sent me his videoblog from SIBOS.   It's fantastic too, so here it is: Future of Money Videoblog: Episode 5 from KS12 on Vimeo. And for the full version of their thoughts, checkout the emergence collective.

And so another SIBOS comes to an end. This year, I’m quite pleased as it’s been a challenging SIBOS. The challenge was getting to it, as the hotels were all over Amsterdam and the shuttle buses were about as reliable as a politician’s policies. No complaints however, as the agenda ticked all the boxes I…

So the final SIBOS session just finished with the excellent thoughts of Paul Saffo of Stanford University, and a co-found of the Long Now, at the closing plenary keynote. Paul covered lots of good stuff, and here’s an interpretative summary: We seem to be using ever more powerful technological tools in the pursuit of ever…

So, after a nice lunch, it’s into the session all about Asia, chaired by my mate Emmanuel Daniel of the Asian Banker, who was joined by panellists: N Chandrasekaran, CEO & MD, Tata Consultancy Services Dr Gerard Lyons, Chief Economist and Group Head of Global Research, Standard Chartered Bank Patel Rajnikant, CEO, Reliance Exchange Next…