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Technically that was more MS Access :-)
Re:The Brute Squad on Friday June 20, 2025 @08:18AM (#44326991)
Re:ECB's $1.9T-a-day trade system suffers outage on Thursday February 27, 2025 @11:20AM (#43195769)
Still down -> https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/ecb-takes-down-secu...

According to a market participant "the T2S operator will attempt to failover to their recovery site".

Doesn't smell good...

Not by regulation, you need a specific “payment service provider” licence for that.
Re:The funny rules of SpamAssassin in 2023 on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @11:59AM (#38843836)
> As an aside, not sure if OP is related to them but updown.io is a nice service and I appreciate the simple PAYG pricing! For what it's worth their mails seem to get through successfully to me too.

Not related in any way except as an happy customer. They added a blog recently and this article caught my eye because of the nightmare that is mail delivery issue for everyone.

I found it particularly ironic that you now have to think like a spammer (i.e. look at spam detection engine source code to find a way to circumvent their heuristics) in order to get your totally valid email delivered (^_^).

edit: typo

Re:Credit Card Debt Collection on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @07:27AM (#37495291)
There is also in the Bible the notion of a 50 years periodic Jubilee[1] when all debts would be canceled and the system effectively resets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(biblical)

If only C# had a brother language that would expose a nice functional syntax while keeping full interop and the benefits on running on the CLR ;-)

Nice thought experiment though!

We use Matomo
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023) on Monday May 01, 2023 @02:35PM (#35777161)
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SILEX is helping wealth managers by combining human expertise and technology, to SPARK up investment ideas & performance. Founded in 2017, SILEX Tech team is looking for a new software engineer mastering the C#/.NET ecosystem and interested by the world of finance (portfolio management, investment products, digital advisory). You will be exposed to many different challenges: from our internal operations management software to our client-facing digital platform on web and mobile.

If interested please send your resume to jobs.tech(at)silex-partners.com mentioning Hacker News and we will be in touch!

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023) on Monday April 03, 2023 @12:43PM (#35426991)
SILEX | https://www.silex-partners.com | Geneva (Switzerland) or Paris (France) | Full Time | ONSITE

SILEX is helping wealth managers by combining human expertise and technology, to SPARK up investment ideas & performance.

Founded in 2017, SILEX Tech team is looking for a new software engineer mastering the C#/.NET ecosystem and interested by the world of finance (portfolio management, investment products, digital advisory). You will be exposed to many different challenges: from our internal operations management software to our client-facing digital platform on web and mobile.

If interested please send your resume to jobs.tech(at)silex-partners.com mentioning Hacker News and we will be in touch!

Re:SVB Securities Management Exploring Buying Firm Back on Sunday March 12, 2023 @03:34AM (#35117718)
I think the article is about the SVB Securities subsidiary (an investment bank) spinning off itself with a management buy-out.

Sadly this is not about the main bank and will not save it.

Sort of ejection pod for investment bankers tied to the mothership and deciding its time to separate…

Re:France reveals hidden swimming pools with AI, taxes them on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @01:16PM (#32652755)
France, #1 on TaxTech :-)
Check TIPS (Treasury Inflation Linked Securities)[0] for a way to stay liquid but still get inflation protection.

[0] https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_tips_glan....

Be careful of not trying to catch the proverbial falling knife!

There is still a ton of air down below :-)

If you go in, do it gradually in small trades, don’t try to « time the market ».

More information and speculation on the link below (in French) - seems Free was the most impacted.

https://lafibre.info/dorsale-internet/27042022-multiples-cou...

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