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Archive for: October, 2011

Guy Weatherall - Rule Financial - London | 31/10/2011 | 2849 views

Commodity reporting confusion; which way will regulators go?

The rulemaking under Dodd-Frank and EMIR is a dry dust place, but things are starting to get a bit more real and a bit more interesting... Back in 2008, G20 specified that OTC derivatives contracts should be reported to trade repositories. The US Dodd-Frank regulations have defined swap data repositories (SDRs) as responsible for collecting this d... Tags: Post-trade & ops, Wholesale banking

Steve Brunswick - Thales - Long Crendon | 31/10/2011 | 3117 views | 2 comments

A quick guide to the latest mobile security standards

It has been some time since we last posted on mobile security standards (originally the topic surfaced when Global Platform started working with the GSMA and EMVCo) but many industry players have announced updates in recent weeks that are worth digesting. The rapid movement in this space brings us closer to a mobile ecosystem built on a set of sec... Tags: Mobile & online, Payments

Tomas Kindler - SIX Securities Services - Zurich | 28/10/2011 | 2507 views

Still not a truly competitive post-trade industry in Europe

With the advent of central counterparty (CCP) interoperability in Europe, 2011 has been the year where we have finally witnessed competition at the clearing layer of securities trading. Recent interoperability agreements between CCPs represent enormous progress, but there is still a long way to go before we have a truly competitive European post-tr... Tags: Risk & regulation

Pat Carroll - ValidSoft - London | 28/10/2011 | 4811 views | 3 comments

Mobile wallet - who and what will be a winner?

This week, McKinsey and EFMA issued a report on the future of mobile banking in Europe. Is it a surprise? Not exactly. What strikes me about the report is that whilst banks admit that they are not investing enough they do recognise that mobile banking is the way forward and will become the service of choice amongst consumers. What also strikes me... Tags: Security, Mobile & onlineGroup: Innovation in Financial Services

Friso de Jong - EEI Platform - Amsterdam | 28/10/2011 | 2952 views

Spain deploys seven standards for technical interoperability

Spain published seven standards as part of its National Interoperability Framework. Such standards are aimed at ‘operational interoperability among public administration authorities, and between the Spanish public authorities and its citizens. Public authorities from all levels must conform to the standards, read: they must use these standard... Group: Electronic invoicing