Kristin Moyer

From Peter Redshaw.  I’m just back from the hugely successful Gartner Symposium in Orlando, USA, so now I have only the one week to help make final preparations for its sister event in Cannes, France! Orlando provided lots of evidence that confidence in the IT industry is starting to grow again and the banking and [...]

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From Peter Redshaw> Within the Banking and Investment Services team, we continue to receive a wide range of enquiries from our financial services clients. What is clear from these ongoing interactions with clients is that time is of the essence – time to plan and form strategies is in short supply, and clients are increasingly [...]

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David Furlonger here…..So the wires are hot again as the dollar falls to new lows.
The UN called today for a new reserve currency that the Saudi central bank governor has denied holding talks with China and other countries about dropping the use of the dollar for pricing oil, regardless of press commentary to the contrary that appeared [...]

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(from Peter Redshaw) — A series of intriguing industry panels at the recent SunGard City Day in London provided lots of analysis on where we all went wrong in the past in the Financial Services industry and – more importantly – a few hints on what might be needed to put it all right again. [...]

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Rick DeLotto here… I was surprised this morning to find how few knew about the August 7, 2009,  “REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT ON U.S. PREPARATIONS FOR 2009-H1N1 INFLUENZA” by  the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.  EVERYONE with responsilbity for business continuity should download and take a look at it.
 
http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/PCAST_H1N1_Report.pdf
 
Let me quote an [...]

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Rick DeLotto here—with apologies in advance for sounding like a broken record on a subject you are all probably tired of already, pandemic planning.
 There has been some serious bad news recently that should be worked into your response scenarios, though they just haven’t drawn much press:

On July 13 researchers at the University of Wisconsin [...]

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Mary Knox here. Today Business Wire reported that Ms Jamie Shay, Head of Standards for SWIFT, is one of three new members appointed to the XBRL International Board of Directors. This follows the March 2009 announcement that Chris Church, SWIFT CEO of Americas and Global Head of Securities, joined the XBRL US board.
I think this [...]

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David Furlonger and Alistair Newton here – today we came across a new customer service offering that caught our attention and caused us to consider why it is always non-financial service providers that are leaders in customer service. Mark Hoplamazian, CEO of Hyatt Hotels, has just announced a change to the hotel chain’s Gold Passport [...]

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Mary Knox here. I have been giving myself a crash course on the use (or potential use!) of mashups by banks in preparation for my involvement in this year’s SIBOS, which will include a mashup stream in the innovation track. I’ve started blogging about mashups in banking on the SWIFT community site.
The growing interest of [...]

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Rick DeLotto here… H1N1 reached World Health Organization Pandemic status on June 11, 2009, meaning that it is firmly established worldwide.  To date, this appears to be are relatively mild influenza strain in the developed world, with nearly 30,000 infections and 144 deaths officially reported in 74 countries.
 Unlike seasonal influenza outbreaks, which are most dangerous [...]

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