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News The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is buying a Sri Lankan-based technology services company MillenniumIT for $30m as part of its plan to migrate to a new trading system and bring tech knowledge back inside the company. [16 Sep 2009]
Revealed: £12.4m cost of pilots' ID cards project
News Edgar Whitley, reader in information systems at the London School of Economics and co-author of two LSE reports on the ID card project, said it is hard to justify the spending on the CWIC project. The government has... [23 Jul 2009]
'Post Office workers can't spot ID card fraudsters'
News Dr Edgar Whitley, reader in information systems at the London School of Economics and co-author of two LSE reports on the ID cards scheme, said the argument that high street biometric enrolment could be both secure and... [08 Jul 2009]
LSE gears up for new tech direction
News The London Stock Exchange (LSE) Group is reviewing its technology strategy, with its TradElect trading platform under particular scrutiny. TradElect was introduced in June 2007, the culmination of a four-year technology... [29 Jun 2009]
Web snooping plans unworkable, say critics
News Professor Peter Sommer and Gus Hosein, an LSE visiting fellow, published a report on Wednesday that criticised the government scheme. Sommer also told ZDNet UK that the LSE is concerned about the cost of... [18 Jun 2009]
Electronic trades get speed boost
News The 300-year-old London Stock Exchange (LSE) is continuing to update its electronic trading platform. According to Dame Clara Furse, who stepped down as CEO of the exchange yesterday, new functionality is expected to be... [21 May 2009]
DeviceLock for Compliance With the Combined Code on Corporate Governance (UK)
White Paper The corporate governance systems of public companies listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) are governed by the Combined Code on Corporate Governance. The principles, rules and requirements set out in the Combined... [14 May 2009]
'Invest £15bn in tech - create 700,000 jobs'
News The LSE report was produced in conjunction with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a US thinktank that is in turn partially sponsored by IBM - a company with interests in the fields of... [30 Apr 2009]
Outsourcing 2.0: What's the new India?
News Companies will soon see outsourcing as a game of dice - hedging their bets and spreading outsourcing deals across the world, a report by the London School of Economics (LSE) has predicted. The LSE's... [31 Mar 2009]
ID card costs rise - but is the security weakening?
News Ian Angell, a professor at the London School of Economics (LSE) and one of the authors of a report into the scheme, said this undermines the government's claim the ID card system will offer a rock-solid way of verifying... [07 Nov 2008]
LSE opens up clearing
News LCH.Clearnet will be joined by rival clearing house X-Clear as a provider of CCP services to LSE members. According to an LSE spokeswoman, the opening up of this stage of the trade process is... [30 Sep 2008]
Scottish gov't enlists data privacy experts
News The privacy luminaries involved include Ken Macdonald, assistant information commissioner for Scotland; Jerry Fishenden, Microsoft's UK lead technology advisor; Rosemary Jay, privacy lead and partner at Pinsent Masons solicitors; and Gus... [11 Sep 2008]
Stock Exchange back to normal after outage
News The London Stock Exchange is back to normal after an outage yesterday that ceased trading for the longest period in eight years. The exchange said that the outage did not mean that its electronic trading system was in any way vulnerable... [09 Sep 2008]
UK youths going mobile web crazy
News Mobile social networking is also popular with many gadget-owning Brits, the survey conducted by ICM Research and the London School of Economics (LSE) for mobile operator Vodafone has found. ICM Research and the... [17 Jul 2008]
London Stock Exchange to ramp up electronic trading
News The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has celebrated the first anniversary of the launch of its electronic trading platform TradElect with promises of exponential increases in volumes over the next couple of years. [20 Jun 2008]
