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abovethecrowd.com: The State of Texas Refuses to Block Municipal Broadband

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Focusing on the evolution and economics of high-technology business and strategy. Laquo; Believe It or Not: Your State Leaders May Be Acting to Slow the Proliferation of Broadband. Texas Two Step - Backwards ». March 21, 2005. The State of Texas Refuses to Block Municipal Broadband. The battle now moves to Colorado, where the current language is perhaps the harshest ever seen. This proposed bill, in its original form, would prohibit a city from helping any new carrier whatsoever get started. It's...Raquo...

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FinancialTech Insider: Data analytics not for "rocket scientists"

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Rantings, ravings and commentary on financial technology. Monday, March 15, 2010. Data analytics not for "rocket scientists". We’ve all read the reports that in the wake of the financial crisis, risk management and analytics needs to move to the top of the corporate agenda and that risk managers should be viewed not as the bogeyman trying to rein in the profit-hungry trading desk’s excessive risk taking, but more as a strategic asset within the bank that has the ear of the CEO, CFO and CIO. Going forward...

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FinancialTech Insider: September 2009

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Rantings, ravings and commentary on financial technology. Thursday, September 17, 2009. The worst of the financial crisis and the typhoon that threatened Sibos in Hong Kong may have passed, but guest blogger,. Andy Schmidt of TowerGroup, says considerable uncertainty surrounding certain aspects of the financial services industry remains. And so we find ourselves at the end of another successful Sibos. One year (and one typhoon! However, it’s the ability, opportunity, and (dare I say) responsibility...

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FinancialTech Insider: SWIFT misses open standards opportunity

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Rantings, ravings and commentary on financial technology. Wednesday, October 22, 2008. SWIFT misses open standards opportunity. SWIFT's relationship with its member banks is entering an interesting phase, particularly as the Brussels-based banking co-operative courts corporates as customers. At Sibos some of SWIFT's member banks expressed their discomfort at the announcement of Alliance Lite, SWIFT's new low cost means of connecting to SWIFTNet, which "is as easy as logging onto a web site". SWIFT is the...

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FinancialTech Insider: January 2010

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Rantings, ravings and commentary on financial technology. Friday, January 22, 2010. Good bank, bad bank. While financial stocks are reeling in the wake of U.S. president Barack Obama's announcement that he wants to limit the scope and size of banks and their trading activities, their must be mixed feelings amongst banks about this announcement and what it means for certain parts of the bank. But what does this mean for the less riskier parts of a bank's business, for example, transaction banking? We are ...

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FinancialTech Insider: March 2010

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Rantings, ravings and commentary on financial technology. Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Transaction processing in microseconds? I attended an Intel Faster City event this evening, the 17th such event, in which Intel talks about its latest faster, more efficient processors and its technology partners and customers talk about how increased processing and compute power is`helping them in their everyday business applications. That contrasts sharply with the middle and back office, which as we know historically ha...

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FinancialTech Insider: What EU airport regulators can and should learn from SEPA

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Rantings, ravings and commentary on financial technology. Thursday, April 22, 2010. What EU airport regulators can and should learn from SEPA. The European single sky". In the wake of the volcanic ash disaster that brought European skies to a standstill, experts are calling for a more united approach across Europe's aviation regulators. What has this got to do with transaction banking, you may ask? Europe may have a single currency, but it appears that the EU is far from united when it comes to most othe...

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FinancialTech Insider: April 2010

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Rantings, ravings and commentary on financial technology. Thursday, April 22, 2010. What EU airport regulators can and should learn from SEPA. The European single sky". In the wake of the volcanic ash disaster that brought European skies to a standstill, experts are calling for a more united approach across Europe's aviation regulators. What has this got to do with transaction banking, you may ask? Europe may have a single currency, but it appears that the EU is far from united when it comes to most othe...

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FinancialTech Insider: Paying the price of electronic payments

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Rantings, ravings and commentary on financial technology. Wednesday, April 14, 2010. Paying the price of electronic payments. Cash is no longer king, despite the fact that for the last decade or so we have heard transaction banks bang on about the supremacy of cash, at least to corporate treasurers that are cash-rich or looking to unlock cash trapped in inefficient parts of their business. Yet, with the increasing use of electronic payments whether it is debit or credit cards, ACH or online, comes the in...