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The OTC Derivatives Regulators Group (ODRG) (which includes principals from regulators worldwide with responsibility for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives regulation) has produced its first report (p...
In Mexico, many organizations implemented non-integrated solutions provided by local signature providers. Now after the first 3 months, the problems we were alluding to are starting to show up. In m...
The banking sector has faced yet more criticism in the last week for its so called “creaking IT systems”. According to the Chief Executive of the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), Andrew Bailey,...
Recent findings suggested that big data is a lot more valuable than people think. Companies with advanced analytic capabilities, the consultancy finds, are twice as likely to be in the top quartile ...
The New York Chapter of PRMIA hosted "Regulatory, Compliance, and Risk Data Technology Challenges" at Credit Suisse's offices in New York, last Thursday 10th April. Abraham Thomas introduce...
EBA’s Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) for supervisory reporting (CRR/CRD IV) have officially been adopted by the European Commission (EC). As a result of the delayed adoption of the ITS, the re...
The Federal Reserve has announced new capital ratios for US banks dictating that banks have to lift their level of equity to total assets to five per cent. Of course, the main reason is risk managemen...
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a summary of its supervisory work plan 2014 in relation to trade repositories (TRs) authorised under the European Markets Infrastruct...
The PR bluster around the new Michael Lewis book ‘Flash Boys’ is deliberately confusing, yet almost no-one seems to have read it. With the FBI investigating high-frequency trading (HFT), the issues th...
Regulators have budgeted for enormous spend on surveillance technology in the year ahead. On 31 March 2014, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority revealed a 15% increase in its IT budget for 2014-2015,...
One man’s trash is another man’s new identity? Yes, because that “junk mail” you toss in the garbage contains valuable data about yourself. A crook bent on identity theft can potentially have a field ...
Be agile or lose out if you want to win the mobile payments race. Discover the role of agile development methodologies in the adoption of effective and risk free mobile payments technology. The bankin...