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Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 27/06/2012 | 2120 views

Canada produces a model financial market

TMX is a great success story in global finance today. Listening to their presentation this week and discussing the woes of today’s financial markets within the broader global economic picture it was really encouraging to hear how a modern stock exchange is able to buck the trend and be profitable and growing. Makes you wonder how this has bee...

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 27/06/2012 | 1835 views

Does Germany have the courage to lead?

Time is dragging on and yet another round of summits passes by with political leaders still posturing, seemingly unable to agree policies or implement anything that will tackle the global economic problems, in the short and long term. This is most critical in the Eurozone, where it has the look of a battleground for the global economic downturn. To...

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 21/06/2012 | 1279 views | 2 comments

Are Stock Exchanges Failing?

This is the question for today? Economic strife and Government austerity measures have almost entirely stifled growth and with the Euro under threat and countries across the European Union suffering massive loss of living standards what can be done to stem the tide and begin the long road back to prosperity? I can’t help thinking about why S...

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 15/06/2012 | 1787 views | 1 comment

A business case for investment in technology

There have been a number of reports published estimating the technology spend on I.T. in the next year. These reports are not unusual as they tend to appear either nearing year end or as a result of regulatory change of whatever the economic condition is at the time. In these times such reports are grasped by vendors sometimes more in hope than exp...

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 15/06/2012 | 1965 views

The Importance of T2S

Some people have doubted the importance and value of T2S and have rightly questioned the cost of building the system against the value it will provide. Indeed the UK is still not joining despite a growing list of countries CSDs signing up. Is the right for the UK? What is the long term benefit of T2S? Oddly the crisis in the Eurozone and the possi... Group: Post-Trade Forum