http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/ en-GB Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:48:09 +0000 http://www.typepad.com/ http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2008/02/chris-skinners.html http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2008/02/chris-skinners.html Chris Skinner, who has established a global reputation as a banking provocateur, is in good form with his new book, �??The Future of Banking in a Globalised World.�?? (John Wiley & Sons, 196 pages, £34.99) In it, he points out... banking Chris Skinner Globalisation payments The Banking Channel Tom Groenfeldt Tom Groenfeldt Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:03:27 +0000 http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2008/01/best-place-to-w.html http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2008/01/best-place-to-w.html Stonewall have just released their annual ranking of the best employers for gay people in Britain. Interesting to see who's who in our community. For example, of the Top 100, we have quite a few nominations of good gay places... banking Chris Skinner Current Affairs financial markets General general interest Tom Groenfeldt Web/Tech Chris Skinner Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:33:42 +0000 http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2008/01/trust-your-bank.html http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2008/01/trust-your-bank.html Gary Silverman, the FT's US news editor, wrote a column about his surprise to find he and his wife each had a $119.99 charge from TLG Hotline on their JP Morgan Chase credit cards. "We pay our cards automatically, and... banking The Banking Channel Tom Groenfeldt Tom Groenfeldt Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:21:11 +0000 http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2008/01/ing-doing-some.html http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2008/01/ing-doing-some.html Probably it�??s just a coincidence that ING has two longish stories in the 4 January FT �?? one an innovative management framework from Bain that helps the bank keep its international operations in synch and another on how the bank... banking financial markets Globalisation The Banking Channel Tom Groenfeldt Tom Groenfeldt Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:12:01 +0000 http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2008/01/a-brilliant-new.html http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2008/01/a-brilliant-new.html Way back in mid-December Chris Skinner did a review of retail banking. Here's an idea he may have overlooked -- think about how customers actually use your bank, and for American banks, offer some support for people who work internationally.... banking Chris Skinner financial markets The Banking Channel Tom Groenfeldt Tom Groenfeldt Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:38:01 +0000 http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2008/01/mint-takes-on-m.html http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2008/01/mint-takes-on-m.html Plus it's free, and Web-based. Mint allows users to automatically track and analyze their financial transactions, set budgets, and even send balance updates in text messages to cell phones. From the Forbes interview with its 26-year old founder, Aaron Patzer:... Tom Groenfeldt Tom Groenfeldt Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:02:19 +0000 http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/12/microsoft-in-20.html http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/12/microsoft-in-20.html Despite Chris Skinner�??s prediction, in an intelligently provocative recent piece, that 2007 was the year that Microsoft committed suicide, even he didn�??t say the process would be quick �?? he predicted the company�??s first lost to appear in 2012. Meanwhile... banking Current Affairs Games The Banking Channel Tom Groenfeldt Web/Tech Tom Groenfeldt Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:54:40 +0000 http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/12/ft-business-boo.html http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/12/ft-business-boo.html I know we aren't quite to 2008, but I wanted to get a jump on the FT's nominating committee with "Options, the secret life of Steve Jobs." Written by Fake Steve Jobs, who produces the wonderful Fake Steve blog and... banking Current Affairs Film financial markets Futures & Options SEC Tom Groenfeldt Web/Tech Tom Groenfeldt Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:54:50 +0000 http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/10/the-future-of-f.html http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/10/the-future-of-f.html The International Association of Financial Engineers is bringing in two heavy hitters to discuss the future of financial crises -- Robert C. Merton and Myron S. Scholes (If you have to ask, this probably isn't for you), but: Robert C.... banking financial markets Globalisation The Banking Channel Tom Groenfeldt Tom Groenfeldt Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:39:19 +0100 http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/10/financial-insig.html http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/10/financial-insig.html And the top three: Information lifecycle management rather than just information management Technology refresh, or Dynamic IT, which involves wrapping new technology around old legacy systems. Sounds like a new name for Saas. It also seems to me that wrapping... banking The Banking Channel Tom Groenfeldt Tom Groenfeldt Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:57:55 +0100 http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/10/tom-peters-jim-.html http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/10/tom-peters-jim-.html The Halo Effect Takes the glow off some of the most popular business books of the last two decades with an intelligently critical view of methodology. Two weeks ago I pulled �??Good to Great�?? by Jim Collins off my shelf... banking Books general interest The Banking Channel Tom Groenfeldt Tom Groenfeldt Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:52:37 +0100 http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/10/nyc-quantitativ.html http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/10/nyc-quantitativ.html World renowned experts will be speaking at Quantitative Modeling & Financial Market Dynamics , to be held from 4-8 pm Oct. 31 at 7city Learning, 55 Broad Street. This first annual QuantDay event will be hosted by Numerical Algorithms Group... Events NYC Tom Groenfeldt Tom Groenfeldt Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:04:03 +0100 http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/10/a-bank-is-a-ban.html http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/10/a-bank-is-a-ban.html When it's not, Geoffrey Moore says. The author of Dealing with Darwin, Inside the Tornado, Crossing the Chasm explained to Teradata users why analytics is such fast-growing tool in mature businesses, like banking. "You walk into some banks and say... banking financial markets The Banking Channel Tom Groenfeldt Tom Groenfeldt Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:46:37 +0100 http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/10/teradata-and-sa.html http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/10/teradata-and-sa.html SAS and Teradata execs took time out from announcing their partnership today to say they expected to continue working with both SAP and Business Objects. "We have partnerships with everyone," said Bob Fair, EVP for global field operations at Teradata.... banking financial markets payments The Banking Channel Tom Groenfeldt trends Tom Groenfeldt Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:33:54 +0100 http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/10/westpac-improve.html http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/10/westpac-improve.html Who says competitors can't work together? It just takes a littel pressure from the customer, in this case Westpac. Super-empower marketing with a CRM system that draws on a data warehouse from Teradata and analytics from Siebel running off transactions... banking The Banking Channel Tom Groenfeldt Tom Groenfeldt Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:09:27 +0100 http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/09/microsoft-ships.html http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/09/microsoft-ships.html I'm confused. Microsoft is shipping a new version of BizTalk Server 2006 late in 2007? How retro. Microsoft did not change any features in the shipping release since the last beta, says Steve Martin, the company's director of connected systems... Tom Groenfeldt Tom Groenfeldt Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:04:36 +0100 http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/09/greenspan-blast.html http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/09/greenspan-blast.html The WSJ got hold of a copy of Greenspan�??s new book, due out Monday. Sounds a little mixed. The Ayn Rand devotee who played a partisan game in supporting skewed tax cuts by Bush, criticizes the Republicans for losing their... Tom Groenfeldt Tom Groenfeldt Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:57:06 +0100 http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/09/brilliant-hed-c.html http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/09/brilliant-hed-c.html Whew. Knew there was some reason I pay good money for my Journal subscription. Or subscriptions. When I called to complain about getting two copies a day they took action. Today I got three. Anyway, some secret shoppers from Sandler... The Banking Channel Tom Groenfeldt Tom Groenfeldt Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:55:43 +0100 http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/09/speed-without-d.html http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/09/speed-without-d.html High Performance Computing on Wall Street has been running for a couple of years now, but interest seems at an all-time high this year. Today I have talked to IBM, Cisco and, on a related matter, Platform Computing. One common... Tom Groenfeldt trends Tom Groenfeldt Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:05:16 +0100 http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/09/microsoft-legac.html http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/09/microsoft-legac.html The Mainframe Migration Alliance (MMA) and the Midrange Alliance Program (MAP) will host a meeting on legacy modernization at the Fira Palace Hotel in Barcelona from 1:00 �?? 4:00 pm on 9 October. The meeting will provide an opportunity to... Tom Groenfeldt Web/Tech Tom Groenfeldt Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:48:55 +0100 http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/08/the-fsas-princi.html http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/08/the-fsas-princi.html The FSA�??s principle-based approach to regulation has won it a lot of favorable attention in the US. Leave it to the Wall Street Journal to weigh in with criticism for its failure to protect individual shareholders in the UK. The... Ben Stein FSA Hank Paulsen regulation SEC Tom Groenfeldt John Wiley Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:54:45 +0100 http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/07/futures-and-opt.html http://wiley.typepad.com/the_finanser/2007/07/futures-and-opt.html View the video from The Banking Channel: here. Futures & Options The Banking Channel Tom Groenfeldt John Wiley Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:49:18 +0100