Monday, November 17, 2008
From CFO.com…
~~~~ The regulator (SEC) releases its roadmap for transitioning U.S. companies to international accounting rules, and estimates the costs….
…Under the SEC’s proposed timeline, released on Friday, all publicly traded U.S. companies would be required to use IFRS within six years. However, at least 110 companies could use the international rules as early as next [...]
Friday, November 14, 2008
Is this an example of the early beginnings of a “virtual guild”?
LakeFront Data, a market data consultancy, is hosting a virtual job board… for market data professionals… this is very cool… from Bobsguide.com…
~~~~ ” Data management professionals can now post or find a job on LakeFrontData Jobs, the first job site created specifically for the [...]
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Wesabe, the financial community portal, has the coolest little gadet for their users… the gadget pulls the users account data and rests in the sidebar of Vista…
Now the Vista only part is a drawback but pushing the users data out of the application to a widget/gadget (gawidget) is great… I guess it begs the question [...]
Monday, November 10, 2008
Channel under-utilization… I haven’t been paying attention to Twitter… but when I go there I realize I’m following some interesting folks including IRWebreport… they have a post on Broadridge’s social network… finally an equity social network that makes sense… the adoption threshold is very high but if they get traction the quality level of postings [...]
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Saturday, November 8, 2008
Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia started serving in the US Senate before many Americans were born…
He is 91 years old and 3rd in line of succession to the Presidency…
He has announced that he is relinquishing the chair of the Appropriations Committee…
I’m sure many others will recount the less illustrious parts of his tenure… but [...]
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
This is outstanding… determination … it is the best…
Reuters reports:
~~~~ “WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. securities regulators will help speed efforts to create a central counterparty for the $55 trillion credit default swap market by temporarily exempting exchanges, dealers and other applicants from lengthy registration requirements, according to a document obtained by Reuters on Tuesday.
Among [...]
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Chris Cooper, of the WSJ, talked in this video about the Obama’s campaign astounding “boot strapping win”… a “ground game which no one has ever seen”… organizing from the bottom up… how a political operative said “it was the strangest thing he had ever seen…”.
Enormous credit must be ascribed to President-Elect Obama and especially his campaign [...]
Saturday, October 25, 2008
YAP = Yahoo! Application Platform…
More retail investors use Yahoo! “Finance” than any other provider of financial data … so it’s exciting to learn about the rearchitecting project for the whole operating system of Yahoo!… they are being relatively open about it … Mark Hendrickson of TechCrunch blogged the event where the details were laid out … aiming to be [...]
Thursday, October 23, 2008
From Naked Capitalism… a little insight into the painful process of getting CDS onto an exchange or central counterparty clearing platform… so many powerful and competing interests in the mix… makes one think of all the other big, complex changes through time… hang there in guys… there is a solution that will increase market stability… [...]
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Bobsguide reports… Excellent stuff…
~~~~ ” BondDesk Group LLC, a leading odd-lot fixed-income electronic trading platform announced today that it has partnered with IDC Financial Publishing, Inc., one of the nation’s leading analysts of all government-reporting financial institutions. The new partnership will allow traders and financial advisors to view bank ratings and other financial metrics developed by [...]