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Retail banking is under pressure from every angle. Technological advances, and the evolving attitudes they shape, have lowered the barriers to entry for new challengers and rendered ‘legacy systems’ a...
Technological developments are often greeted with a mixture of excitement and cynicism. Mobile payments are no different. Amongst all the hype and bluster, however, a fundamental question seems to be ...
Fines aren't fine any more. That should be a message resonating loud and clear around financial institutions, as another year of the rolling regulatory tsunami gets fully underway. We're braced for th...
As the latest round of banks and investment houses announce their retreat from commodities, it strikes me that we may have been here before. Some might be concerned that as well-known names like Barcl...
Centralized Limits and Collateral Management In their quest for excellence corporate banks have adopted best of breed solutions for each line of business. Therefore the trade finance team would have s...
What is T2S? Today, the new T2S platform makes its debut in the eurozone. Developed over seven years by the ECB and the Eurosystem in partnership, T2S is a pan-European securities settlement platform ...
I was reading my colleague’s blog today on RFQs and it looks like this could be another aspect to the slow motion car wreck otherwise known as MiFID II. The problem this time is that the regulators h...
With the extension of the MiFID II scope into non-equity asset classes and the tightening of transparency rules, firms relying on requests for quotes (RFQs) have to figure out how this fits under the ...
This year, Mobey Forum celebrates 15 years since its inception in 2000. From humble beginnings, the association has survived and flourished where other similar organisations have faded. In this blog, ...
It is good to see that the US markets are now set on their journey towards T+2. Although some people are already questioning why it’s so far off, a 30 month timeframe will give everyone enough ti...
Modern society is consuming digital services like never before and if this trend continues we will be digitally overwhelmed & fatigued society very soon. There is an insatiable desire to digitize ...
Ever wonder just what happens to the data in a data breach incident? Does it go into some kind of wormhole in cyberspace, out through the other end? Well, the answer is pretty much so, when you consid...