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Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 26/08/2011 | 3551 views | 4 comments

Short selling the argument

I have been debating the importance of short selling to markets and investors over the past few days and next year will be creating a debate for the Post Trade Forum on short selling. However, what has amazed me is the almost complete lack of understanding there is around about the importance of short selling. It has certainly become emotive. The...

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 15/08/2011 | 4559 views

Outsourcing takes a blow

The recent announcement by Penson that it is undertaking a massive restructuring worldwide including selling the UK (and potentially the Australian) Back office outsourcing business could be an indicator that the existing outsourced industry is about to go into a mass change. Penson have tried to become a world supplier of back office outsourced se...

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 03/08/2011 | 2663 views

The value of European CCPs

In an industry full of risks the role of the central counterparty is perhaps the most important of the market infrastructures. The recent past shows distinctly how much firms have had to rely on CCPs when markets go into massive volatility swings. It’s not the slides so much as the swings. As massive share price rises can cause almost as much...

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