online trading in comment and analysis
Legal Eye: Bogus brands face web crackdown
Comment The French court's ruling is a landmark that could see more online auction sites punished for counterfeit trading. In addition to fake brands and trademark infringements, another area of concern for brands is grey market trading, where goods are... [22 Jul 2008]
Rorie Devine
CIO Profile He then moved on to consulting on trading-floor systems in investment banking, working with more than 20 major financial institutions. Rorie Devine has just left Betfair, where he helped transform the online betting exchange's technology team... [11 Jun 2008]
Legal Eye: Google declares trademark open season
Comment There is a whole unseen, murky hinterland of bidding and trading on keywords that is helping to fund a billion-pound search marketing industry. UK Ltd, in which the judge ruled that search engines had no responsibility or liability for enabling the... [30 Apr 2008]
Legal Eye: Could you end up footing your e-crime bill?
Comment Because most internet crime cases involve misuse of bank accounts and bank or credit cards, how banks treat losses to the customer's accounts is paramount to maintaining consumer confidence in online trading. [15 Apr 2008]
Fixed-income electronic trading faces bleak 2008
Comment Online trading platforms have established themselves during times of strong economic growth assisted by easy and even lax credit. Fixed-income markets in Europe have been slow to adopt electronic trading. [30 Jan 2008]
E-tailers beware: OFT web sweep is imminent
Comment Apart from attracting unwanted OFT or trading standards attention, it is important e-tailers get this right if they want to enforce their terms and conditions. The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and the Local Authority Trading Standards Services are... [14 Dec 2007]
CIO power
AS Analysis The platform behind this is one of the fastest and most resilient on the internet today, processing more than five million transactions per day and more than 300 bets every second, and the Agenda Setters judging panel acknowledged Betfair for... [12 Oct 2007]
The rise and rise of the Asian tech empire
AS Analysis Jack Ma from online trading success Alibaba.com just missed the top tier at 11, Oh Yeon-Ho, the man behind South Korean citizen journalism site OhMyNews.com, was at 16, and Stan Shih, the founder of Taiwanese Acer, was at 35. [12 Oct 2007]
Rorie Devine
AS Profile Devine joined Betfair in 2003 on the back of a career that includes spells consulting on trading-floor systems in investment banking, with more than 20 major financial institutions. Rorie Devine is responsible for the IT infrastructure for the... [12 Oct 2007]
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
Comment He said: "They are scalable and give us the ability to do some complex products, such as exotic equity and hybrid derivatives trading in one system. The directive, which mainly impacts investment banks, market data companies, trading platforms and... [19 Jun 2007]
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
CIO Analysis He said: "They are scalable and give us the ability to do some complex products, such as exotic equity and hybrid derivatives trading in one system. The directive, which mainly impacts investment banks, market data companies, trading platforms and... [06 Jun 2007]
Rorie Devine
CIO Profile He then moved on to consulting on trading-floor systems in investment banking, working with more than 20 major financial institutions. Rorie Devine is CTO of Betfair, one of the UK's fastest growing and most innovative online companies. [06 Jun 2007]
Why the Linux desktop dream is over
Comment Paul Allen, CTO at online share-trading company Selftrade, said: "It's like the old days of open Unix - there are too many competing desktop brands. Will Linux ever be a major player on the desktop? Andy McCue hears from IT chiefs - who, for the... [08 Nov 2006]
Asia goes global
AS Analysis Another Chinese success story is Alibaba, the internet trading and search company, of which Yahoo! Benjamin Schmittzehe, consultant, China expert and Agenda Setters panellist, said that while Alibaba was initially about trading within China it is... [25 Sep 2006]
Jack Ma
AS Profile Making waves in online trading As one Agenda Setters panellist said: "You have people in Turkey trading with people in the UK who are trading with people in Russia - forget China. The site complements eBay by appealing to 'powersellers' who buy... [25 Sep 2006]
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