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Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 26/02/2008 | 4024 views | 1 comment

As the financial markets veer reluctantly towards reconstruction (mainly because of political objectives) the major obstacle the industry has of "identity standards" looms like an ogre. The lack of standard industry identifiers at fund account client level has been a long standing problem. It has been debated for decades within all market...

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 20/02/2008 | 4029 views | 3 comments

Northern Rock crumbling before our eyes

The nationalisation of Northern Rock was inevitable after the Governments interference in the original crises. Interfering in the problems of Northern Rock at such an early stage, in the glare of publicity, with the market aware of the deteriorating situation, was always going to end at this inevitable conclusion. The Government maintains it had to...

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 18/02/2008 | 3758 views

SEPA could have been so much better!

As the SEPA fanfares of the 28th January disappear into the distance, it's worth analyzing how all this could have been handled so much better, to achieve the mutual objectives of the banks and most importantly their corporate customers. After EBA day (organised by Finextra and EBA), last year I undertook some research based from the Corporate ... Tags: Payments, Retail bankingGroup: SEPA and European Payments

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 14/02/2008 | 2718 views

Solving The Corporate Data Riddle

A few years back I started a series of conversations with the three leading Registrars in the UK about encouraging them to enter the data market. The idea was to consolidate all their data and put it into an electronic standard for distribution to the existing data chain under license. The result would have been dramatic; with data costs across the...

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 11/02/2008 | 1760 views

MiFID makes a case for abolishing Stamp Duty.

(Apologies if you have already read the blog below under its previous title "Stamp Duty must go!")Now this might be a bit of a perennial at this time of year with the budget looming large, but it's about time there was a concerted effort by the City to get rid of this crazy thing called stamp tax for good!The Government always hides b...