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At the FIMA conference this week in London, where I was speaking and chairing an afternoon session, the issue of Data Integration was debated, pulled apart and assessed by a whole range of expert peop...
There have been countless risk conferences and countless hours spent by risk managers over the years on the importance of understanding and mitigating risks in the markets. The sad fact is that recent...
After my recent blog and article commenting on the excellent progress at EMXCo in the drive to STP in the unitised funds space, the latest news that Euroclear's FundSettle has built an automated link...
I keep hearing about ISO20022 and notice that umpteen standards committees are in full swing together with SWIFT who are somewhere in the middle but what are they trying to achieve, for whom and for w...
When you listen to the news and read the various reports on the financial crisis, the market's crash it is always intertwined with the problems in the economy. However, the two do not have as close a...
It appears to me that the best way to start clawing back from the abyss in the financial services industry, has to be the reclamation of business ethics. The scandalous bonuses paid to people who wors...
One thing is for sure the banks are going to be very careful not to create financial products that look like those that have helped create the crisis. We can anticipate that many financial firms will ...
Last week I questioned if SWIFT were in danger of contradicting their position of only supporting a single standard by operating both ISO20022 and ISO15022 at the same time. This question certainly br...
The conference I was asked to Chair last week on Corporate Actions Processing included a presentation from Linda Bookheim, Senior Manager, Custody and Asset Services, SWIFT that catalogued the many di...
If it takes a crisis to remind people of what really matters, there is no doubt that credit crunches and rogue traders have put data management at the centre of attention. The world at large has sudd...
There is an underreported flavour to the much-debated middle and back office experience of Jerome Kiervel, the Soc Gen trader responsible for last week's high drama. According to a copy of his CV cir...