Commentary

Banks face a lot of competitors when it comes to setting up next-generation transaction technologies. Telecommunications companies, phone makers, credit card companies and others have been jockeying... Read more...

The rise of new technology always incubates a lot of patent litigation. We've seen it many times in the past. So should we be surprised by more patent-related suits when it comes to mobile financial... Read more...

The idea of a tax on securities trades was put forward by Gordon Brown at the G20 summit late last year in Pittsburgh (regulatory reform news). Since then, it has percolated along until just... Read more...

So what does it really take to survive at the top in the financial services industry? You need an information edge. Most would agree. You need a kind of intelligence that goes beyond the garden... Read more...

The time apparently is right for the NYSE Euronext, Nasdaq OMX, BATS and others to get the whole issue of sub-penny pricing into the realm of the public. There's no doubt that it would help in... Read more...

Machine readable news has been making slow gains in the financial services over the past few years, though it still strikes many as more of a novelty. But you don't want to suggest as much to Thomson... Read more...

Hedge fund start ups are not dead. They just went through a rough spell that spared few in the financial world. Still, you've got to acknowledge that starting up a hedge takes a lot more than Dad's... Read more...

Is the near field communications movement set to really take off anytime soon? There have been many piecemeal steps toward such services, a lot of pilot programs and intermediate moves, such as... Read more...

We've noted recently that Paul Volcker mentioned the automated teller machine as the most important banking technology innovation in recent memory. The statement left a lot of people scratching... Read more...

Bob McMahon, today a consultant for Standard & Poor's, got an up close view of one of the biggest financial disasters ever when he served as an IT executive for Bernard Madoff. Until recently, we... Read more...