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Given the focus on central counterparty (CCP) clearing in the post-financial crisis world, it is no surprise that clearing houses today face more scrutiny from regulators and central banks than ever b...
For many years I have been totally focused on message standards as one of the main drivers for financial services efficiencies that benefit investors and society in general. For this reason when SWIFT...
Mobile is the most disruptive consumer product of all time. We went from aspiring to have a computer in every home to having a computer in every pocket. Soon it will be a computer in every object. T...
Having been involved in post-trade confirmation and matching for more decades than I care to remember, the thorny issue of central matching vs. local matching is still with us. The reason being is tha...
Basel III norms are supposed to be implemented in India starting next year in 2013 and will be completed by 2018. In the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008-09, the Basel Committee on Banking Su...
Billed as the biggest shake-up in UK pensions for over a hundred years, auto-enrolment will see up to 11 million employees contributing to a workplace pension over the next five years. Designed to rem...
The history of clearing houses, providers of central counterparty (CCP) clearing services, can be traced back to more than 100 years ago when earlier clearing houses cleared the commodities derivative...
Speed is the term most often used when talking about effective use of data: How quickly you can push information out, how quickly you can get it back. And yes, this is a key factor in communication s...
In light of Celent’s recent report, ‘Mobile Applications for Advisors: A study of the European Market’, there is much evidence to suggest that the growing trends of mobile and tablet apps are enhancin...
If you believe that "change is the only constant" then you will not find it difficult to accept that "re-engineering is the response to change that keeps you going". It is assumed,...
In October 2012 the (Australian) NSW ICAC published its report INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGATIONS THAT STAFF FROM A NUMBER OF LOCAL COUNCILS AND OTHER PUBLIC AUTHORITIES ACCEPTED SECRET BENEFITS FROM SUPP...
As more and more financial services organisations embrace agile, the role of testing and the testing team is definitely changing. There are the obvious facts, such as many testing tasks are being reli...