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Basel III, CRDIV, European Union Crisis: The "malediction" of the new banking regulations. In October 2010 at the Seoul Summit, the G20 Leaders committed to the adoption and full implementat...
So, now we all know the dirty little secret at the heart of the latest alleged 'rogue trader' scandal at UBS. Risk management was ignored. Well, knock me down with a slide ruler. Now, I wrote a rathe...
So we all woke up this morning to find that UBS was reporting a $2 billion loss due to a ...wait for it ... 'rogue trader'. Yes, mistakes happen. Yes, fraud, abuse and criminal activity happen. But y...
Bipin Patel: FT letter to the editor 4 Jul 2011 To see the original article on Financial Time's website click here (you may need to be registered to gain full access). Margin strategy critical in CCP...
After much discussion and soul-searching – the largest banks in the EU have finally published their stress test results to the European Banking Authority which, in turn, published them to the wider ma...
I recently completed some research on single dealer platforms or FX eCommerce systems, which are designed for market makers and dealers in foreign currency trading. My research covered FX aggregation,...
We're hosting a webcast on Finextra right now looking at everyone's favourite tech trend - cloud computing. However, before any IT head worth his iPad case starts dreaming about the processing power,...
I mentioned ‘netting sets' in a previous blog on OTC clearing as a key focus of much debate at a recent OTC derivatives conference. To me, there seems to be some confusion around usage of the term wit...
While speaking at the OTC Derivatives and Counterparty Risk conference in London last week, I noticed a number of recurring themes which continued to pop up throughout the day. Most of the conference ...
Rather than scratching their heads (as a bank recently commented to us), IT teams could use regulation as a driver to delivery more accurate information. Especially in Finance IT which, as another b