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EBAday is the annual event for European payments professionals run by Finextra in conjunction with the Euro Banking Association. This community has been created to deliver a forum for EBA delegates to exchange views on Sepa and new developments in payments processing.

Daniel Szmukler - EBA Group - Paris | 18/03/2013 | 1231 views

EBAday 2013 - the countdown is on

EBAday 2013 is approaching fast and the community is gearing up to discuss again the challenges that banks and their payments and infrastructure providers are likely to face in the future. As 2013 begins, the next five to seven years promise to deliver a rapidly changing landscape as increasing globalisation, electronification and mobility is expe... Tags: Payments, Transaction banking

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 30/10/2012 | 2280 views

Who wins Central Matching or local?

With settlement cycles shortening in Europe and in the USA, there is quite a debate going on in the market as to the best form of post-trade matching. Financial Services firms on both buy and sell-side have a decision to make about what suits their business best. Central matching or local matching? Certainly central matching has plenty of attracti... Tags: Risk & regulation, Post-trade & ops

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 29/10/2012 | 2193 views | 3 comments

HFT a force for good or evil

It seems to me that the Industry is split between the benefits or not, of high frequency trading (HFT) and it’s a polarisation which is so concerning that Sir John Beddington, UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser, has launched his report on the Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets. Everyone appears to have an opinion, but very f... Tags: Trade execution, Risk & regulation

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 23/10/2012 | 5675 views | 2 comments

Social media within financial services

The explosion in members of social media sites shows no sign of slowing down and with Twitter now well established and introducing further expansion, the time may soon be with us when all the world’s population will be connected. There is of course quite a moral argument about privacy and the risks that multilateral connectivity can bring, no... Tags: Mobile & online, Payments

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 19/10/2012 | 2316 views

Collateral liquidity and possible solutions

Collateral liquidity is causing huge concerns at the moment and this could really move towards the top of the industry to do list by this time next year. OTC is very likely to suck even more liquidity from the market and with regulatory and political interference with short selling and stock borrowing and lending; the liquidity problem in collatera... Tags: Security, Post-trade & ops