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The UK Chancellor together with the Brazilian, French, Japanese, South African, German, Russian and Swiss Ministers and the European Commission Commissioner for Internal Market and Services have writ...
My last post talked about Enterprise NoSQL and ACID vs. BASE in the context of handling data variety. In this one I'd like to delve deeper into transactional, Enterprise NoSQL. Let's start by focusin...
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has published its fifth progress report on the global implementation of OTC derivative markets reforms. The reports charts the regulatory reform progress across al...
It’s been almost a decade since my last trade at the crosses desk, but still, the memories and experiences are as fresh as ever. As the adage goes: once a trader, always a trader. I do indulge in the ...
Imagine these 3 scenarios: You received an email notification that your credit card bill is ready for viewing and payment online. You don’t remember your password. Do you pay it? If so, when? Your
We all know the business drivers for re-engineering OTC derivatives operations, from the new extensive requirements for central counterparty clearing (CCP) connectivity to the changes in regulated fun...
The Global Financial Markets Association together with various associations from Australia, Canada, Japan and Korea have escalated their concerns on the European Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) to the...
The proposed Regulation SCI (Systems Compliance and Integrity) from the SEC may require further strengthening, but principles such as mandatory testing of disaster recovery procedures would ensure tha...
Are lean six sigma initiatives within financial services enough to achieve the efficiencies needed to gain and / or maintain competitive advantage in post-trade operations? Unless such an initiative i...
It used to be the case that the more complex your trading infrastructure, the larger your IT team needed to be. Systems specialists, networking gurus, database administrators, telephony and IT support...
While the original MiFID contributed to a more competitive and integrated financial market in Europe resulting in higher transparency as well as better protection for investors, some market areas were...
HM Treasury have announced that it has agreed with France, Germany, Italy and Spain to develop and pilot the multilateral exchange of tax information. A wide range of financial information will be au...