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Algorithmic trading has made the headlines, most often negatively. The underlying idea is that computers can make, on a broader scale, better decisions than a trader. On the other hand, criticism is r...
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,...
In March, new issuance and continued interest rate volatility contributed to further increases in fixed income volumes according to leading brokers like ICAP, who last week announced a 22% volume incr...
Social media are here to stay. Period. There is no way you can avoid Twitter and Facebook and Linkedin and Foursquare and more and more. Your friends checked-in in a bar and one of them was crowned a
At the Asian Banker Summit in Hong Kong last week, the passion that the banking community displayed to be a leader in innovation and customer experience was very apparent. For the East, the fast adopt...
Simply put, payment execution is the process of initiating payments, whether by check, ACH, wire or card. Increasingly, companies are looking to outsource this portion of their A/P processing. Payme...
Yarr, me hearties! An issue with Avast (an Anti-virus popular for personal use as it's free), led to many websites having the black mark placed upon them erroneously. The error only affected compute...
As final day for SEPA has been changed, again. I started to think what we could learn from Open Source Development. Every day streets and meeting rooms of Brussels get important people to discuss hard...
We know it’s a problem, we’ve seen it this year – don’t comply, don’t look after your customers properly at your peril. If you’re not going to play the game by the rules, be sure to put something b
Seems like equity and other capital marketplaces are going through the ying and yang of fragmentation and consolidation. Just as we hear about another merger, we read about another new venue going li...
The UK banking and financial service sector is currently undergoing a period of reinvention (whether it realises it or not). There are several reasons for this: Firstly, the rise of social media has ...
LEIs don’t just impact the financial markets sector – they impact the whole of global commerce. A company’s LEI will become a key element of accounts receivable, accounts payable, invoicing and e-inv...