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Are Stock Exchanges fungible?

Reading today’s news headlines, you might think that the markets had exploded or imploded, dependent upon where you sit. Apparently, hundreds of new exchanges and multilateral trading facilities have started up and are winning business away from traditional exchanges. But the question top of my own mind is whether stock exchanges are really fungible? According…

Where Trading and the Internet combine for Liquidity

I saw this blog from a VC in NYC today.  It’s entitled: "We Need A New Path To Liquidity" and I had to read that as I thought it would be all about how to trade out of recession or something.  But no.  It’s about Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, AOL, News Corp/MySpace and all these other…

G7 Leaders to meet the Bank Top 10 to fix the credit crisis

According to various reports, the seven finance ministers of the G7 have asked to meet leaders of the ten largest banks, including Citigroup and Mizuho Corporate Bank, tomorrow.  The aim is to create a strategy to deal with the widening panic over the global credit crisis.    A Japanese Finance Ministry official said: "About 10…

G7 Leaders to meet the Bank Top 10 to fix the credit crisis

According to various reports, the seven finance ministers of the G7 have asked to meet leaders of the ten largest banks, including Citigroup and Mizuho Corporate Bank, tomorrow.  The aim is to create a strategy to deal with the widening panic over the global credit crisis.    A Japanese Finance Ministry official said: "About 10…

Microsoft’s Vista is better than the Mac

Not really, but there is a lot more debate about its pro’s and con’s amongst the tech community, with at least some saying it is not that bad.  Not many, but a few. I reckon that 95% of Vista users have not had the issues I have had, and are happy.  They may not have…

Microsoft’s Vista is better than the Mac

Not really, but there is a lot more debate about its pro’s and con’s amongst the tech community, with at least some saying it is not that bad.  Not many, but a few. I reckon that 95% of Vista users have not had the issues I have had, and are happy.  They may not have…

Skinner’s seriously SWIFT statements

For those who haven’t noticed, I’ve recently started blogging on SWIFT’s community website.  Each day I will post something exclusively there that has my intellectual analysis – all of my IQ of 26 therefore – behind it.  Here’s what’s been blogged about so far: The credit crisis will shift global banking focus to Asia Corporates,…

Skinner’s seriously SWIFT statements

For those who haven’t noticed, I’ve recently started blogging on SWIFT’s community website.  Each day I will post something exclusively there that has my intellectual analysis – all of my IQ of 26 therefore – behind it.  Here’s what’s been blogged about so far: The credit crisis will shift global banking focus to Asia Corporates,…

Mobile really is the future of banking

I have often said that tracking the future is normally demonstrated by tracking children’s behaviours.  Kids are excited about the future. They are desperately keen to rush headlong into the next week, month and year.  "I’m eight and three quarters""I’m twelve but think I look sixteen""I can’t wait for my eighteenth birthday" As a result…

Mobile really is the future of banking

I have often said that tracking the future is normally demonstrated by tracking children’s behaviours.  Kids are excited about the future. They are desperately keen to rush headlong into the next week, month and year.  "I’m eight and three quarters""I’m twelve but think I look sixteen""I can’t wait for my eighteenth birthday" As a result…

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