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Banking Needs Big Bonuses — For Supervisors

Ah, here is a fresh idea from Charles Goodhart and Avinash Persaud  in the FT: give bank supervisors hefty bonuses that pay out over five years or so if the firms in their purview stay profitable. Next...

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China Offers US Economic Advice

Ah, sweet revenge. Chinese leaders are offering the US advice on how to run its economy, and a bit of criticism on its performance so far, reports Edward Wong in The New York Times. The Chinese have...

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Chicago Trading Firms Getting CVs from New York Traders

Chicago is definitely the Second City for most people working on Wall Street, as suggested by that famous New Yorker cover showing a native’s view of the world west of the Hudson as an alien wasteland....

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Banks Going to Hell, IT Budgets Follow? Not HPC!

Hey, wait a minute. When you’re in a hole, stop digging. Get a supercomputer. That’s how things looked last Monday at High Performance Computing on Wall Street.  This show, a combined effort of Russ...

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Microsoft Launches New and Improved HPC Platform

In the works for two and a half years, according to one person on the team, Microsoft has brought out a new version of HPC with the familiar Windows front end, so Super Power (Kryptonite not included...

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How Risk Management Failed at Citi

In Sunday’s New York Times, Eric Dash and Julie Creswell take apart the failed risk management practices at Citigroup in a detailed article that draws on extensive comments from bank insiders. Much of...

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What do banking CEOs know, and what is wrong?

“What keeps you awake at night?” In interviews with more than 1,000 C-level executives at firms around the globe – including 54 financial institutions – IBM researchers trotted out that standard...

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Unromantics Unite for an UN-conference on Banking Innovation – 14 Feb.

OK, the tech visionaries who want to talk about innovation in banking probably don’t have a social life anyway, so here’s an event for them - BarCampBank, which promotes itself as the Unconference...

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Sophis Survey – Derivatives Will Move to Exchanges and Clearing

Sophis, a provider of portfolio and risk management solutions, says a survey of risk professionals shows that they expect at least 50% of their CDS trades will move from OCT to exchange-cleared...

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For Oracle to take out IBM requires more than talk

Larry Ellison has said that with the acquisition of Sun he is ready to take on IBM in the enterprise. Others don’t think so. I’ve been steadily impressed with what IBM is doing in financial services....

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