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Fixed-income electronic trading faces bleak 2008
Comment Electronification can democratise the purchase of bonds by enabling all investors to access the markets, which traditionally have been limited to telephone transactions with a few large investors. Fixed-income markets in Europe have been slow to... [30 Jan 2008]
The Yearly Round-Up 2006
Round-Up Onto 1971 and a song about the computer used by the government's Premium Bonds system. Among the many traditions and institutions of Christmas is one which, like a Morecambe & Wise Christmas Special, unites and divides generations. [21 Dec 2006]
Will Zopa's P2P loans mean the death of the bank manager?
Comment I can't remember where I first heard about Zopa but it has been making waves. Put simply, it is a web-based borrowing and lending exchange that is seeking to do to bank managers what Betfair has done to the average high street bookie... [18 Apr 2006]
Contracting an answer to outsourcing woes
Comment Roger Rawlinson, head of consultancy at the NCC Group, agrees: "An exit strategy needs to be understood - asset transfer, performance bonds, SLA penalties etc all need to be firmly established at contract. [11 Oct 2004]
Devil's Advocate: The new economy myth
Comment The main buyers of shares were companies themselves, as they found it effective to borrow money through the issue of huge bonds. Did the last decade of the twentieth century see a technological revolution that brought a step change in the economies... [10 Mar 2003]
Serialisation: The Great Telecoms Swindle - part 2
Comment Over three quarters of all junk bonds issued in the US were telco-derived. In the second excerpt from The Great Telecoms Swindle, Keith Brody and Sancha Dunstan consider just how over-inflated the telecoms market became. [21 Jan 2003]
Serialisation: The Great Telecoms Swindle - part 1
Comment Money - much of it 'our' money - was invested via the equity markets in the form of stocks, mutual funds, bonds, pensions and other funds into an industry that was almost too hot for its own good. Last year the wheels came off some of the biggest... [20 Jan 2003]
Serialisation: The Great Telecoms Swindle - part 1
Comment Money - much of it 'our' money - was invested via the equity markets in the form of stocks, mutual funds, bonds, pensions and other funds into an industry that was almost too hot for its own good. Last year the wheels came off some of the biggest... [20 Jan 2003]
The Ovum View: IBM-Rational - a threat to the industry?
Comment But this requires more focus than the bonds of partnership permit. Most industry watchers know IBM is ending the year with a multibillion dollar acquisition of a software company. Fewer know what to make of the move. [20 Dec 2002]
The Ovum View: Colt bondholders bite back
Comment Highberry Limited is a UK hedge fund owned by the Elliot Group (known for successfully suing the Peruvian government over non-payment of bonds). Not all telcos are cooking the books or shovelling around their mountains of debt. [20 Nov 2002]
Beethoven coming out of your PC? - don't panic
Comment Counselling service Relate said that the opportunity the web provides to meet people in chat rooms and so on is threatening to rend apart more and more of our supposedly sacred matrimonial bonds. If your computer suddenly starts playing Beethoven... [19 Apr 2002]
E-markets, Oftel and ICANN
Comment But it's healthy to aim at breaking free of the bonds of the past. Well, it's that time of year again. No, nothing to do with Christmas. It's the season when BT and Oftel try to convince a highly sceptical public that they are both doing sterling... [13 Oct 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: BT, WAP and why IT is threatening the human race
Comment Even if its bonds are broken, these are battles that the company is not guaranteed to win. At last - the local loop looks like it is to be opened up to competition. A set of draft guidelines were released by Oftel just over a week ago which set out... [19 Mar 2000]
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