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Inflation-Linked Corporate Bonds To Replace Sovereigns For Institutions?

A survey of institutional investors and members of corporate finance departments by EDHEC-Risk Institute shows that the issuance of inflation-linked bonds may provide a solution to both corporations and institutional investors.  For investors, inflation-linked corporate debt could be an ideal instrument for hedging their … Continue reading

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Sybase 365 Brings Mobile Banking to Bangladesh

Sybase 365 and Neurosoft Technologies havey announced that ONE Bank Limited (OBL), a private commercial bank in Bangladesh, has selected the Sybase 365 Mobile Commerce platform to deliver end-to-end mobile banking services to its customers. With the partnership, OBL will introduce its branchless banking … Continue reading

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Perseus Wins Award for Financial Network Innovation

Perseus Telecom, global provider of enterprise and financial telecommunications, announced today the Global Telecoms Business 2012 Innovation Award for Financial Network Innovation has been presented to Perseus Telecom and partner GlobeNet.  The accolade recognises the fastest available trading connection to … Continue reading

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Numerix Provides Cloud Link For Intense Computations

Numerix , a leading provider of cross-asset analytics for derivatives valuations and risk management has announced a partnership with GreenButton to provide Numerix clients with, secure, on-demand access to cloud computing resources.  With Numerix CrossAsset XL, a flexible Microsoft Excel-based … Continue reading

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Mantara Has Acquired UNX

Mantara, Inc., a provider of advanced ultra-low latency trading solutions, has acquired UNX, a supplier of innovative broker-neutral EMS technology. High-frequency traders and others can now benefit from access to an open and flexible EMS coupled with Mantara’s flagship pre-trade … Continue reading

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Misys Acquisition Complete, Kondor+ Now Under Misys Name

Vista Equity Partners announced it has completed its acquisition of Misys. As part of this acquisition, Misys and Turaz, the business that includes the Kondor+ product line, are now one company officially operating as one under the name “Misys”.   By … Continue reading

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James Garnder, Innovation Lead at Lloyds, On The Future-Proof Bank

James Gardner, who is head of innovation and research at Lloyds TSB (See my story on him in Banking Technology is back in action with his innovation blog. “Here’s the key idea: innovation needs not only a nice process to get things … Continue reading

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Clarity in Contemporary Art – From a Canadian Economist, of all People

Confused about modern art? Intimidated by the beautiful young women sitting at the front desks of the all-white contemporary art galleries from New York to London? (See Peter Mayes’ mystery “Chasing Cezanne” for a hilarious account of the art world). … Continue reading

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Major Tech Innovation + Speculative Finance = Bubble – Carlota Perez

Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital is a slim (171 pages of text) book with a hefty punch. In it Carlota Perez charts major technological changes over two centuries that drew in massive amounts of speculative capital, created a bubble that … Continue reading

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Archiving Some Older Material

After discontinuing blogging at techandfinance.com I took some of my favorite material and I am not posting it here on a WordPress blog…so you may notice that some of it is — not dated — let me say is has … Continue reading

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