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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a report setting out the findings from its hedge fund survey based on data received from 49 management firms. The data is intended to inform FCA’s ...
At last it’s really happening. Throughout 2013 there has been a real buzz around the potential of APIs (application programmable interface) in banking. At last people are seeing the benefits of APIs -...
30 working days until first submission of COREP via GABRIEL in XBRL format. There are four points to consider leading up to COREP; Are you in scope? Are there any delays to the COREP submission date? ...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a communication sent to firms on 17 March 2014 to inform them that the GABRIEL reporting system is ready to receive submissions for common reporting...
After many long months of hype, discussion and the occasional real world sighting, Google Glass is rumoured to finally be hitting UK stores this summer. Currently still only in the domain of the selec...
In my last post I discussed some of the common use cases of non-relational database technology within our industry. This time I’d like to turn to the use of a specific kind of non-relational technolog...
The Basel Committee (BCBS) has published a final standard on the treatment of derivatives-related transactions in its capital adequacy framework. This applies to OTC derivatives, exchange-traded deri...
There’s barely a day goes by without a story on bitcoin somewhere on the news. Much misunderstood and very much hyped, could this digital currency ever play a role in corporate payments and cash mana...
The Financial Times and Twitter are already ravenously commenting the not unexpected move from Facebook into financial services. Indeed, not content with being just the platform to share cat photos an...
Creating efficient and successful mobile financial apps needs specialised software test automation If you haven’t been involved in creating a mobile app for managing payments or financial information...
You may be as sceptical as I of easy recipes for corporate success. Of airy promises, sunny uplands, burnished reputations. Well, here’s a thought. Sometimes, they might just have one or two nuggets ...
The Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) together with the US Office of Financial Research (OFR) have announced that they are commencing a joint project to enhance the quality, types and ...