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BATS Chi-X Europe recently announced plans to introduce opening and closing auctions for ETFs, while the LSE plans to introduce an intraday auction for all SETS equities. Although these moves differ ...
New EU data protection laws are coming closer following the vote in the European Parliament. The impact of the likely changes will be greater legal restrictions on the control organisations have on th...
On 22nd September 2014, a federal jury in New York found Arab Bank PLC liable for knowingly supporting terrorism. This is a landmark ruling in the first civil trial to be brought against a bank under ...
Despite less than 15 months to go until the implementation of the new European insurance regulatory regime Solvency II, many firms have yet to start preparing for their Pillar 3 transparency reporting...
The FCA has lost faith in the ability of the buyside to properly handle their payments for equity research and manage associated conflicts. As a result, the UK's financial regulator has proposed an ou...
Never before has there been a more challenging time for banks to serve their corporate clients. The financial crisis pushed an envelope of change through the financial markets, as well as other indust...
“We hope to change the way content can be consumed – there is quality content on the web and we believe in it. It needs to be financed – and people must be willing to finance it.” Whether you like it ...
The commercial horrors of Halloween seem to have gained popularity over the UK’s indigenous “Bonfire Night” on the 5th of November. So I thought I’d do my bit to push back for a less US-centric way of...
The topic of KYC utilities was a strong focal point at recent roundtables that we held in New York and London. It appears that amid a tsunami of new and enhanced regulatory obligations, 2014 was the y...
Social is a big part of Money2020 (in both senses). In a moment of mid-conference early morning jetlag I thought I'd run some numbers to see how much noise is being generated, by whom and to what impa...
Mashable.com says that recently over 98,000 photos have been leaked from Snapsaved.com, which has shut down. The Snapchat app makers won’t take any credit, even though previously, 4.7 million phone nu...
About a year ago I had a coffee with a former foreign exchange trader (as you do) who said to me. "Liz, the next big scandal is going to be around all these banks rigging the foreign exchange mar...