Archive for September, 2009
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Ahead of the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh, USA, it is probably wise to look back at the mistakes that were made during the banking crisis last year before trying to beef up some of those nebulous 'commitments' that were made at the last such meeting in London in April to ...
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Exactly a year since the official collapse of Lehman Brothers on 15 September 2008, when it filed for bankruptcy signalling the start of a meltdown of the global financial system, US President Barack Obama has used the occasion to issue a stark warning to bankers not to ignore the lessons ...
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
Some of the world’s leading financial professionals will be meeting at the Sibos 2009 show in the port city of Hong Kong on 14-18 September to discuss the most important issues facing the industry today, not the least of which of course is how to prevent another crunch and understand ...
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
The biggest technology merger of the year is under threat from an EU investigation into competition rules. The proposed $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems by Oracle, announced in April this year and approved by US regulators only last month, is now in doubt after the European Union said that ...
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
The demands of the future trading environment are being addressed by Deutsche Börse Systems who is installing a new ultra low latency infrastructure connecting the financial centres of London and Frankfurt to cater for algo trading, and Bayerische Börse AG, the operator of the Munich Stock Exchange, who is launching ...
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