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The Target2Securities (T2S) initiative has the ability to revolutionise trade processing in Europe. The projected consolidation and centralisation of processes is designed to lower operational costs ...
The reputation of high-frequency trading (HFT) seemed to swing as erratically last week as stock prices did last month. A survey found most traders wary of HFT; but some on Wall Street stood up for it...
Oh to be in the UBS compliance team this week. With news that another “rogue trader” has slipped under the radar in such spectacular fashion—at a time when the world’s banking system is in such a frag...
While some of the get-togethers have already started to happen, Sibos 2011 starts in earnest in Toronto on Monday and promises to raise some important issues. I was last in Toronto almost thirty years...
Everyone agrees that e-invoice saves money, makes things easier and it is good for environment. But if we think situation for SME, this makes sense but still it is hard to adjust business for this. Go...
The news from the FBI does not come as a surprise given the tenacity of cyber criminals in their efforts to steal from businesses and consumers. The reference from the Department of Homeland Security ...
Yesterday, PCI SSC published its first set of Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) solution requirements. This document, eagerly awaited by many, focuses on solutions that use cryptographic hardware to ...
I imagine most people in the City are dumbfounded that it’s still possible for a rogue trader to run up such a large loss. After all the investment that every bank (that I know of) has shovelled into ...
This blog was created while Mark was working at The Logic Group. I am looking for a new wallet. It must be leather, bi-fold, and have a space for notes...I abandoned carting around loose change a whil...
I returned from holiday to find another attack vector has raised its ugly head. Reading the latest news, at least two hundred fraudulent SSL certificates (and oossibly over five hundred) have been iss...
Acquisition fraud costs entrepreneurs hundreds and hundreds of millions of euros per year. Acquisition fraud among other things implies that invoices sent invoices for products or services that never ...
With liquidity shortfalls playing such a fundamental role in the financial crisis of 2008, it’s no surprise that regulations such as Basel III and Dodd-Frank are pushing financial institutions to rais...