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One of the issues that could have held back the adoption of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) by market participants and regulators has been the question of “who runs the system?” LEIs are going to be ...
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has published a“Consultation Paper on the Draft Regulations Pursuant to the Securities and Futures Act for Reporting of Derivatives Contracts”. The consulta...
How much thought do you put into your PIN? Is it someone’s birthday? Your vital statistics? You would think that people would try to protect their bank account balance or credit limit to the best of t...
The Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (FSTB) has published a Bill to provide a regulatory framework for the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market in Hong Kong. The Bill details: mandato...
Data breaches tend to spotlight the malevolence of hackers and hacktivists but some of the most serious vulnerabilities continue to lie closer to home in how an organisation monitors and manages inter...
Since the early 2000s financial institutions have been reducing headcount to cut costs and increase margin/return on equity. Received wisdom has it that this is the cost saving option which makes the ...
The global financial crisis has made companies look at the area of liquidity management more closely. Companies are keen on having more operationally efficient accounts receivable (AR) processes. The ...
Recently I have been embroiled in an interesting debate on Finextra.com regarding the death of cash, or as some may classify it, the premature assassination of cash. Connected with this the threat of...
Mexico CFDI PAC Strategies (Part 4 of 5) - Customers create Chaos It should not be forgotten in this discussion around government XML standards and compliance mandates that the purpose of an invoice...
Banks are currently spending 45% of their IT budget on updating channels. This is according to a new whitepaper from Sudhir Varadarajan of software service provider, Tech Mahindra. This equates to spe...
There has been a lot of talk recently about the introduction of Financial Transaction Taxes (FTTs). This has even extended to speculation here in the UK that we should tax those naughty HFT practition...
I don't know if you've noticed, but we've been upping our 'innovation' coverage over at Finextra Towers. Don't worry, we still have a lot of love for the dark suited, world weary IT and business types...