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Adventures in identity: are you paranoid or schizophrenic?

For a while now, the industry has struggled with secure identities. It’s not an easy thing y’see. For example, the Economist this week has a special 16-page supplement looking at the issues of a deluge of data: “Information has gone from scarce to superabundant. That brings huge new benefits but also big headaches … ensuring…

A rich round of bank analysis

Took a long haul flight yesterday and it’s one of the few times that you can grab all the business magazines and digest them properly. This month had a real crop of great items from Alan Greenspan's fightback to the future of reading; from a deluge of data and how to cope with it to…

Monthly MiFID MTF Monitor: February 2010

In our second month of monitoring the MTF performances in European Equities trading in partnership with Thomson Reuters Equity Market Share Reporter (EMSR) – for last month's figures and charts, click here – we find that Chi-X continues its success, whilst LSE win this month's battle with Xetra for second place. Market Share based upon…

Monthly MiFID Monitor, February, EUR

“Greed is good … and now it’s legal”

Remember Gordon Gecko from Wall Street? Well … he's back: "Wall Street – Money Never Sleeps", released on April 23rd. Money never sleeps. Lunch is for wimps. Bankers are always winners.  

Arrogance, Ignorance and Greed (AIG)

Just saw the folk group Show of Hands on the Beeb singing their song Arrogance, Ignorance and Greed (AIG) about … yes, you guessed it … bankers! Here are the lyrics: All I wanted was a home And a roof over our heads Somewhere we could call our own Feel safer in our beds There…

Barclays bright star

The case against nationalisation: Barclays Today’s main story around the markets is Barclays and their results, with a stonking £11.6 billion profit for 2009: All anticipations beforehand were that the bank would announce £10.3 to £11 billion ($16 to $17 billion) profits, so these results were fairly stupendous. The result is also, according to CEO…

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LSE’s marketing gets desperate

I realise that the LSE has been challenged by the new MTFs like Chi-X, which is why it has recently acquired Turquoise, but surely this sort of advertising is going to new extremes …

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And the best Asian City to HQ your etrading is …

I'm pleased to welcome this guest blog entry by Steve Edge of AsiaEtrading.com. Singapore is the best city in Asia to headquarter an electronic trading business according to a two week opinion poll conducted at the AsiaEtrading.com website. The result is no surprise as Singapore has a low corporate tax rate of 18% (17% in…

OId boys versus the new boyz

Just been at another fascinating conference on trading and low latency in the capitalmarkets. I’ll write more later on but, for now, thought you might be interested in these stats from Karel Lanoo, CEO of CEPS (not exceptions processing – the Council of European Policy Studies). He compared the London Stock Exchange (LSE’s) trading and…