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Archive for: September, 2009

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 17/09/2009 | 2120 views

Trade Reporting; all at sea

You would have though that trade reporting would be a simple thing with the regulatory organisation specifying what they wanted reported, by what medium, by whom and when but this is all too simplistic for today's markets. A discussion with one of the UK's top firm's compliance officers this week opened my eyes to the sheer lunacy of regulatory rep... Tags: Post-trade & ops, Wholesale banking

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 15/09/2009 | 2478 views

Recovery or blip

There are certainly plenty of positive noises coming out of SIBOS and a real feel that the worst of the financial and economic crisis is over but is this flag waving just a bit to soon and overly optimistic? Over the last six months we have seen many indicators that the economies of the USA, the EU, Japan and China are doing far better than expect... Tags: Dealing rooms, Trade execution

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 11/09/2009 | 2743 views

MiFID: Back to square one

Recent surveys appear to show that the buy side and investors are getting a real raw deal with MiFID. Wealth managers are feeling the pinch with so many new trading venues to connect to even to have a chance of achieving best execution. The cost of connecting to so many venues is high and being passed back to the client in within the charges. As St... Tags: Dealing rooms, Trade execution

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