Hints and tips:
...That resilience is largely down to the development of the National Card Payment System (NSPK), which recreates the financial plumbing needed to process card transactions in Russia....
...Circle has said it will take a conservative approach to managing the reserves backing its stablecoin, as the company heads towards a stock market listing and a battle heats up over assets central to the plumbing...
...Home Depot, which knows a thing or two about plumbing, calls it the bathtub effect: sales that should have come in the first quarter will just flow into the second....
...Ryanair’s ability to keep growing – for now – despite these failings shows just how competitive the low-cost airline market has become....
...Ryanair’s ability to keep growing – for now – despite these failings shows just how competitive the low-cost airline market now is....
...Payments are the visible tip of a broader change — banks’ long-established ability to charge high prices for a whole range of services is crumbling....
...With less customer data, the banks would enter a negative feedback loop in which their ability to compete would steadily decline, eroding a key competitive advantage that banks currently enjoy through their...
...Bats Global Markets has launched a new volatility index to compete with CBOE’s popular Vix, aiming to capitalise on cracks in the market plumbing exposed by wild market swings last August....
...The board, conspicuously short of expertise in risk management and financial plumbing, enthusiastically endorsed the policy....
...Nerves have frayed alongside the slide in global stock markets, with bourses plumbing fresh lows on Friday despite a midweek rally....
...“I am a big believer in the ability of blockchain technology to effect fundamental change in the infrastructure of the financial services industry....
...meeting will not focus on any of the attention-grabbing incidents such as the 2010 flash crash, the rogue algorithm at Knight Capital and numerous technology outages but an arcane part of the market’s plumbing...
...More than 200 years of experience have given us some ability to recognise industrial revolutions as they’re unfolding....
...A few weeks ago McDonald's announced new technology “to make it easier for customers to order and pay for food digitally and to give people the ability to customize their orders”....
...Check the plumbing in Jos A Bank’s unsolicited offer for its larger rival, The Men’s Wearhouse. Its daring bid for a company twice its size requires $2bn of debt funding....
...Ambac Financial, which had provided insurance on some of the bonds, issued a statement warning that the city’s “ability to access cost-effective financing in the future will be needlessly imperilled”....
...Another August and the market is again fiercely debating its plumbing after another bout of glitches....
...Wall Street banks took steps to reassure investors that the plumbing beneath the $2tn exchange traded fund industry was secure, a day after heavy selling led to rare disruptions to normal trading....
...“The difference is with a clearing house we do market-to-market [risk management], either twice daily or have the ability to do it much more often,” he said on a visit to London....
...But at other companies, the “plumbing” that underlies a BI dashboard can be far more complex, depending on the number of information sources....
...The winner, Pennon Group, is a water, sewerage and waste disposal company which owns South West Water and Viridor....
...Mr Spears says of the individual enterprises in the group that all are “widget makers with the ability to do something different”....
...So that’s being able to give institutions the ability to sit in our dark pool whilst working other dark pools. The second thing we are in pilot with is broker blocks....
...At the same time, Beijing has embarked in the construction of a vast network of infrastructure – from roads and railways to power cables and sewerage systems....
...I know that the audit ability of that is significantly higher than other types of trading....
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