Video extravaganza

A round-up of interesting videos knocking about on the web. Anything worth watching of interest to Finextra community members.

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

High Performace Trading on steroids

Feargal O'Sullivan, managing director of high performance messaging at Nyse Technologies shows off the pre-release Nehalem-EX Processor running a Nyse trading simulation at the Intel Developers Forum 2009. In the demo, O'Sullivan describes how Nyse simplified the hardware from many servers and interconnects to a single 4-CPU Platform based on the ...

30 September 2009

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Will that be cash, plastic or iPhone?

Hip-to-the-moment TechFlash blogger John Cook shows just how easy it is to use your iPhone to buy a grande non-fat mocha in this video shot at the Seattle Columbia Center Starbucks. So why not just use a card? John looks slightly confused by this question, before retorting: "Because its so cool to use an iPhone man to buy your goods." Th...

25 September 2009 /payments /retail

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Banking in the future - as seen from 1969

The BBC have put a priceless collection of items from Tomorrow's World online. If you've not heard of it, this used to be essential viewing on BBC1. It was a weekly look at science and technology which managed to cover all manner of exciting new developments without the obligatory dumbing down you get now. I believed it all - computers would do al...

14 September 2009

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

One trillion dollars visualised

Mint's online lifestyle mag does its bit to remind us all how deep in the mire we are with the snazzy 'One Trillion Dollars Visualised' animation. In layman's terms, that one trillion dollars would buy you a $3 latte every day for 900 million years. And that's only one-tenth of the current bail-out. Time to wake up and smell the coffee, people.

22 July 2009 /retail /wholesale

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Does Jon Stewart use inside information?

Having mopped the floor with Jim Cramer and CNBC, the Daily Show's Jon Stewart has turned his attention to the practice of short-selling in this typically barbed report from regular correspondent Samantha Bee (AKA the Money Honey Bee). For a comedian, Stewart's done a lascerating job in exposing Wall Street hypocrisy and cant. But is he trading o...

18 March 2009 /wholesale

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Bernie Madoff is the Cookie Monster

Want to know how Bernie Madoff swindled his billions, but only got a minute to spare? Ernie from Sesame Street explains all here. Not sure that I fully approve of Ernie's rather Tarantinoesque retribution.

16 March 2009 /regulation /wholesale

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Barclaycard goes viral with waterslide creative

A good example of viral marketing from Barclaycard, which is challenging the public to create a home-made version if its waterslide TV advertisement, in which an office drone travels from work to home down a gigantic waterslide, paying for goods and services on the way using his contactless debit card. The bank has posted its own spoof ad at http...

12 March 2009 /retail

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Mindboggling science and the arrival of home evolutus

TED speaker Juan Enriquez looks beyond the financial crisis at mindboggling science and the arrival of home evolutus. Here's the pitch: "Even as mega-banks topple, Juan Enriquez says the big reboot is yet to come. But don't look for it on your ballot -- or in the stock exchange. It'll come from science labs, and it promises keener bodies and ...

25 February 2009

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Shiney Apple people...

I stumbled across this video today which I think perfectly encapsulates the Apple philosophy. Nice to see cutting edge design taken beyond even the iPhone. Now if you'll excuse me I have to pop to the Apple store to stare lovingly at the products while I queue for the genius bar..... At least I don't have to worry about viruses....

12 February 2009

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Bernie Madoff's take on over-regulation on Wall Street

Some choice quotes from squeaky-clean Bernie Madoff on the trials of doing business in the modern financial system. "Whenever I go down to Washington and meet with the SEC and complain to them that the industry is either over-regulated or that the burdens are too great they all start to roll their eyes just like our children do when we talk ab...

18 December 2008 /regulation /wholesale