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Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 24/10/2012 | 5818 views

I have never known ethics to be talked about so much as in the last year or two and we all know why. However, I was intrigued the other day when the Chartered Institute of Investment Services (CISI) (of which I am a founder member having been grandfathered in through my Stock Exchange membership) sent me an email stating that from next year all mem... Tags: Risk & regulation, Wholesale banking

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 18/10/2012 | 1736 views

Ratings gone quiet or the lull before the calm

Since LIBOR broke into media frenzy territory the noise around ratings has gone pretty quiet. Although we have seen the appointment of Kevin Milne one of the City’s best assets by RVS the Singaporean headquartered Rate Validation Services benchmarking company and we have had Martin Wheatley the UKs regulatory great hope, if not quite yet savi... Tags: Risk & regulation, Post-trade & ops

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 17/10/2012 | 2123 views | 1 comment

Getting to grips with Rogue Traders

At a City forum yesterday a representative from the FSA presented the seventeen definitions behind the operational risk management principles, which financial services firms are expected to practice to prevent rogue trading and other fraudulent activities. I could not help noticing that the word ‘limit’ was used frugally. It was in fac... Tags: Trade execution, Risk & regulation

Iosif Itkin - Exactpro Systems - Moscow | 25/11/2009 | 3246 views

TTLiquidity: what could be a single big improvement in SOR?

The TradTech Liquidity event was very good this year. It provides a good outlook on the state of the industry as well as perfect networking opportunities. Personally, I enjoyed the panel on How Smart Are Smart Order Routers? the most. The final question in this panel was if there is any revolutionary improvement that can happen in Smart Order Rout... Tags: Dealing rooms, Trade execution

Iosif Itkin - Exactpro Systems - Moscow | 01/11/2009 | 2714 views

Consolidated tape and cost of surveillance systems

There is a set of vendor solutions available already to provide EBBO. Technology development and competition will enable buy-side to obtain a reasonable benchmark for the best-execution. On the other hand, regulators should carefully assess demands for changing market data prices, as revenues from market data services are accompanied by the costs o... Tags: Trade execution, Trade execution