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Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 30/10/2012 | 2276 views

With settlement cycles shortening in Europe and in the USA, there is quite a debate going on in the market as to the best form of post-trade matching. Financial Services firms on both buy and sell-side have a decision to make about what suits their business best. Central matching or local matching? Certainly central matching has plenty of attracti... Tags: Risk & regulation, Post-trade & opsGroup: EBAday

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 29/10/2012 | 2191 views | 3 comments

HFT a force for good or evil

It seems to me that the Industry is split between the benefits or not, of high frequency trading (HFT) and it’s a polarisation which is so concerning that Sir John Beddington, UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser, has launched his report on the Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets. Everyone appears to have an opinion, but very f... Tags: Trade execution, Risk & regulationGroup: EBAday

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 24/10/2012 | 5781 views

Can you really test ethical behaviour?

I have never known ethics to be talked about so much as in the last year or two and we all know why. However, I was intrigued the other day when the Chartered Institute of Investment Services (CISI) (of which I am a founder member having been grandfathered in through my Stock Exchange membership) sent me an email stating that from next year all mem... Tags: Risk & regulation, Wholesale bankingGroup: MiFID

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 23/10/2012 | 5670 views | 2 comments

Social media within financial services

The explosion in members of social media sites shows no sign of slowing down and with Twitter now well established and introducing further expansion, the time may soon be with us when all the world’s population will be connected. There is of course quite a moral argument about privacy and the risks that multilateral connectivity can bring, no... Tags: Mobile & online, PaymentsGroup: EBAday

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 19/10/2012 | 2309 views

Collateral liquidity and possible solutions

Collateral liquidity is causing huge concerns at the moment and this could really move towards the top of the industry to do list by this time next year. OTC is very likely to suck even more liquidity from the market and with regulatory and political interference with short selling and stock borrowing and lending; the liquidity problem in collatera... Tags: Security, Post-trade & opsGroup: EBAday