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Feb 5, 2010

I've been meaning to write a few insights into the MiFID review, and will do so in the future. Meantime, a colleague from Credit Agricole's subsidiary, CA Cheuvreux, sent me a really interesting white paper on the MiFID review and has kindly given me premission to post it here for Finanser readers. Issues linked to…

Feb 1, 2010

Monthly MiFID MTF Monitor: January 2010

The Financial Services Club is pleased to announce that we have recently agreed a partnership with Thomson Reuters Equity Market Share Reporter (EMSR) to provide a monthly MiFID MTF Monitor. Our aim is to show how the pan-European investment markets are changing as a result of the MiFID and the entry of the new MTFs. …

Jan 28, 2010

SCTs second birthday

Today is the second birthday of SEPA Credit Transfers (SCTs), which launched on January 28th 2008 and has now achieved a 5.3% volume of total European credit transfer … I had completely forgotten about this major milestone until Jonathan Williams, of Experian Payments, sent me this note: in the last year, we have reached several…

Jan 27, 2010

Does PR matter for financial firms?

Just found a survey in my inbox today from Broadgate Mainland and the Financial Services Forum. The survey asked 89 folks in mainly UK financial services firms – 52 in PR and 31 marketers – about their views on the measures for evaluating public relations. What interested me is that in measuring broadcast coverage, 51%…

Jan 18, 2010

The last pit … the end of open outcry trading

For years, men have shouted at each other in open warfare outcry pits. These blood curdling scenes are reminscent of cock fighting or pitbull terrier pits, where teams of angry testosterone fuelled alpha males go at each other with their gesticulations and cries. What am I talking about? The traditional trading floor. In London, until…

Jan 11, 2010

I told you it was cold …

On Wednesday last week, I noticed it was cold outside. On Thursday, the BBC noticed: Nice picture!

Jan 6, 2010

Announcing our latest Research Survey

Further to previous surveys conducted by the Financial Services Club, we are pleased to announce our first research for 2010 focused upon Social Media in Finance. Social media and social networking have risen rapidly to be part of the main agenda of most corporations and banks, where do you fit? Are you banning employees from…

Dec 31, 2009

The Top Bank Ads of 2009

Various sites rate banking ads in different ways. Here are a few of my favourites this year. Probaby the one that garnered most attention from a traditional bank is this one from Barclays: … immensely popular for some reason. However, most ads have been from mutuals and credit unions, having a cheap shot at…

Dec 30, 2009

The Top Stories of 2009

The seventh most popular word on my list for 2009 of the most commonly used new words is 'hashtag'. The hashtag – '#' – is used to preface a word on twitter so you can show it's really relevant to that subject, rather than loosely related to it. For example, searching for #lost should find…