This paper derived from a lecture give at the Sibos 2012 conference in Osaka, Japan (October 2012). Barcodes are the ubiquitous business standards used for the visual capture of information at retail point of sale and in business and healthcare supply chains. While the business and economic...

This paper examines the idea of a common financial language (CFL) from both conceptual and practical perspectives. There can be no single CFL because there is no single underlying and unchanging financial reality. Potential efficiency and risk-management benefits from developing greater CFL for...