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Just as with humans, evolution is essential to exchanges and depositories. Competition in the exchange space has increased over the last few years, in part due to MiFID. Some exchanges (like NYSE and ...
In recent months regulators have increased their focus on detecting and reporting possible incidents of market abuse. In Europe trading firms are expected to check for potential offences and report th...
“So here I go again…walking down the only road I’ve ever known.” Yes, it’s the lyrics from a Whitesnake song! But I kept singing it whilst reading about recent moves in the UK lending market. And th...
The number of vendors serving the mobile point-of-sale (mPoS) market has increased by more than threefold in the past year. A combination of razor-thin margins, market maturity and the upcoming EMV li...
The RBS story last week was the latest in a long line of banking tech failures. year. So why do they happen and is there a solution? Many insiders believe there has been a gross under investment in ba...
The FCA has published a new webpage containing information about investment firms which may continue to comply with CRD III (i.e. firms subject to the BIPRU prudential sourcebook for Banks, Building S...
Top 5 Reasons Why Companies are Using Brazil version 3.1 to Transition off of on-premise solutions Brazil came out with their latest changes in July 2013 – version 3.1 of the Nota Fiscal process. An...
Don’t believe the hype: social media and the finance sector Banks are understandably excited about the prospects offered by social media. There are now 1.4 billion Facebook accounts worldwide, with th...
Adherence to rules and procedures is something investment banks have long been scrutinized for, with regulatory non-compliance being recognized as a prominent failure. For many investment banks, compl...
In recent months, since Google has announced the support for Host Card Emulation (HCE) in their latest Android 4.4 KitKat, we have seen a barage of articles and analyses (some in very reputable public...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) held the Markets Conference in November in which Martin Wheatley, Chief Executive, FCA, and David Lawton, Director of Markets, FCA, both delivered keynote speeche...
This is not the part-2 that I promised; rather, it is a quick one to address a question I was asked about the blog I posted last week. The question was, can you define “whopper”? It’s a fair questio...