You know how every vendor or in-house genius explains that the first step for a successful development project is the full support of the CEO. Great idea. If you could clone CEOs like Daisy the sheep, this might be a viable approach.
Then again, maybe not.
I was sworn to secrecy on the investment bank. Or threatened […]
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I have written about the dismal performance of the SEC a couple of time, most recently to suggest that the world of finance will be a better place if the SEC is doing consumer protection and serious regulation of firms is left to the Federal Reserve.
But I didn’t know the inside details, and now Scot […]
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I have written about MiFID often enough that I can almost figure out the acronym without going to Google. Ok, not quite – look it up yourself.
So I expected my friend Chris Skinner’s book on The Future of Investing in Europe’s Markets after MiFID to be moderately interesting but hardly surprising.
Wrong. Well, it was only […]
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Hey, wait a minute.
When you’re in a hole, stop digging.
Get a supercomputer.
That’s how things looked last Monday at High Performance Computing on Wall Street.
This show, a combined effort of Russ Flagg and Pete Harris, now at A-Team Group, has been a popular one despite a schedule that coincides with heads of state visiting the UN […]
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It’s hard to keep up with the flow of news about the bailout – miss a day of blogging and the assorted clips piling up on the desk are out of date. Still, I don’t want to let some of the more intriguing stories go unnoted.
Andy Kessler, who has written some fascinating and fun books […]
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I am working on a story about green and banking, and frankly I am approaching the topic with a bit of skepticism. The ultimate green move would be to decrease consumption, but what would that do to the credit industry. Ah, what credit industry, you ask. Hmm, good point.
I was struck by an obvious contradiction […]
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Hauser’s experience in financial services goes back to the days when Microsoft was pushing Windows NT as an enterprise banking solution. It did better in the branches.
Starting in 1997 she was responsible for winning and deploying retail bank branch platforms on Windows NT and establishing Microsoft as a key partner in financial services, said Brian […]
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