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In the derivatives industry, significant, year-over-year transaction volume growth has become the norm. With high-frequency trading driving up the volumes of trades to hundreds of thousands or even mi...
Speculation has been rife over who could be the next Governor of the Bank of England. Recently the Guardian gave us a glimpse of who the potential candidates could be. Any of the eight figures pri...
Andy MacLellan, Head of Cloud, Onyx Group How long does your data need to be backed up for? It’s a question most businesses take for granted, working on the assumption their IT department have taken ...
With the current state of the European economy and the massive problems facing the Euro the politicians in Brussels aided by the Governments of France and Germany stand accused of a dereliction of dut...
Following links a few days ago led me to a fascinating journal article by Professor Mark Roe of Harvard Law School. He suggests that the preferential treatment of OTC derivatives and repo collatera...
Banks are under constant pressure to meet their customer expectations and reacting piecemeal to customer requests buys little time. Banks need to invest in their business so they can anticipate custom...
Brazil continues to add and update their Nota Fiscal legislation. Today, I wanted to discuss the importance of Transportation Invoices, as these will be mandated starting in September 2012. The Tran...
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has now ruled as of May 10, 2012, on the tax discrimination alleged by nine institutions over withholding tax levied on foreign investors in French equities compar...
The markets are struggling today with collateral management as never before. The fragmentation of market infrastructures, volatility in markets, increased margining requirements and counterparty risk ...
Customer experience is fast becoming the real differentiator in transaction banking. It is no longer enough to offer a simple, automated payment processing. To build loyalty and drive profitability ba...
The news that the CME CCP will be accepting corporate bonds and that LCH-Clearnet will accept RMBS for initial margin has me thinking about the dangers of demutualisation of clearing houses. Managem...
Analysts, regulators, vendors and financial institutions have been falling over each other touting the benefits of AML (Anti-Money Laundering) and anti-fraud joining forces. And rightfully so. However...