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Don't let MiFID delays stop <strong>IT</strong> work

Don't let MiFID delays stop IT work

News But Bob Fuller, IT director for IT strategy at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, said that while the implementation guidelines have been delayed again that simply means companies will have less time to get the work done.

Tags: mifid

[31 Jan 2006]

City IT pay rates top £1,000 per day

News Alain Cheenne, regional director at recruitment company Michael Page Technology, said: "Financial services has always wanted the best people and clients know that the best way to get them is to pay them well.

Tags: banks

[21 Feb 2006]

IFA appointment boosts tech know-how

News Last is chairman of two IT companies, training specialist Xpertise Group and Knowledge Technology Solutions, a specialist in financial market data, and a director at over 30 others.silicon.com Financial Services

Tags: director, board, integration, finance

[27 Jul 2007]

Apacs IT chief steps down

News The Apacs spokesman said: "The new head of IT will be Janice Bentley-Pearson, who will report to the operations director Gary Hocking. Yoe, who was director of technology, information and facilities, has been at Apacs for more than 17 years and...

Tags: id management, it director, apacs

[28 Mar 2008]

Lloyds TSB banks on SAP SRM

Case Study Mark Swyny, service and systems director of group procurement at Lloyds TSB told silicon.com: "The system strategy (SRM) is one strand. Get the latest financial services news straight to your inbox. We wanted to kick start our procurement process...

Tags: savings, integration, procurement, sap

[12 Jun 2007]

The McCue Interview: Barclays CTO Kevin Lloyd

The McCue Interview: Barclays CTO Kevin Lloyd

Comment This resulted in being offered the role of IT director back in London for the corporate banking division in 1997 by current CIO David Weymouth. But he soon realised that without a degree and management training he wouldn't get very far in financial...

[23 Dec 2003]

MiFID: No big bang - but it's not over yet

News Peter Redshaw, research director at analyst house Gartner, told silicon.com: "It's been remarkably quite. Speaking to silicon.com a Financial Services Authority (FSA) spokesman suggested the FSA is happy with the way things have gone so far.

Tags: banks, regulation, deadline, compliance

[26 Nov 2007]

Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities

CIO Analysis One of the brighter areas for tech spend in financial services is investment banking and Graham Yellowley, director of technology services at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International, says the focus over the last 18 months or so has been away from...

Tags: financial services, gartner, graham yellowley, mark foulsham

[06 Jun 2007]

<strong>Get</strong> ready now for MiFID, banks warned

Get ready now for MiFID, banks warned

News TowerGroup associate director Chris Skinner told silicon.com that banks and financial organisations affected shouldn't wait until the details have been ironed out. I believe we've got a good model and the best technology and we want to go out there...

Tags: mifid

[31 Oct 2005]

ASPs come under anti-piracy spotlight

ASPs come under anti-piracy spotlight

News We always try to go after the beneficiary of software piracy, which in this case would be the ASP, not the IT director. He dismissed predictions that the rise of the ASP will spell the end of widespread software piracy as premature, and added there...

[19 Oct 2000]

Revealed: Strangest business tech emergencies

News SunGard Availability Services UK managing director, Keith Tilley, said no matter how trivial the cause, an outage can have potentially serious consequences for the business - particularly if the system in question is supporting a customer-facing...

Tags: business continuity

[27 Apr 2007]

Swift adds secure PKI to global banking network

News Martin Brampton, consultancy director at Bloor Research, said choosing PKI was the logical move. Geoff Moss, director of wholesale banking at consultants, DMR Europe, said the banks which own Swift are trying to widen the number of corporate...

[06 Oct 1999]

SOA? Get the business involved, say IT chiefs

News David Doherty, global IT programme director of Vanco, said to get the business interested in SOA Vanco had to implement the technology "in a real business way with real business benefits". Speaking at an IDC conference on SOA in London this week...

Tags: soa, vanco

[23 Mar 2007]

Contractors banking on City payday

News The continuing boom in mergers and acquisitions along with increased transaction volumes are leading to higher demand for IT contractors within investment banks and hedge funds, said Matthew Brown, managing director of contractor services company...

Tags: mifid

[03 Jan 2007]

Banks spend £10k per user on IT

News Stefan Foster, managing director of the National Computing Centre, which conducted the survey, said that with online security a significant issue for the finance sector, it was no surprise to see they are spending more than the average.

Tags: security, banks

[02 Nov 2006]

Banks warned over IT security flaws

News NTA technical director Roy Hills blames the move online as one of the primary causes of security weaknesses in the sector. The number of security flaws within financial institutions' IT systems is growing fast, due in part to customer demand for...

Tags: security, financial

[14 Jun 2007]

Comparison site gets smart to beat that competition

Case Study The company's founder and managing director John Paleomylites explained the launch team was drawn from the data security sector in 2005 and was looking at how the web could be used to collect quality data from customers.

Tags: financial services, experian, comparison sites, banking

[29 Jan 2008]

CIO Jury: CEOs 'don't get' technology

News But Graham Yellowley, director of technology services at investment bank Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International, said: "The issue is whether the organisation, including IT, is aligned to the CEO's goals or not.

Tags: cio jury

[08 Mar 2007]

'SOA... what?' say City chiefs

News Better interaction and communication between business users and the IT department must become a higher priority for UK financial services, if IT is to fulfil its potential in terms of supporting the overall business strategy, said Ilog market...

Tags: soa

[08 Jan 2007]

Cashing in on the ATM revolution

News According to Martin McMillan, business development director at ATM software development company Level Four, there are a number of personalisation opportunities available to banks. Microsoft Windows, it seems, is the only practical choice.silicon...

[02 May 2007]

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