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For more than 20 years, technology enhancements and innovation targeting the front office of FX trading operations have not been matched in the back and middle offices. That reality now threatens the ...
1 billion+ users. 330 million of which use the app for business purposes and happily share the latest HR files, sales pipelines and company intelligence over the messaging app. Lately, IT Managers...
The recent dramatic spike in the number and complexity of regulatory reporting guidelines, has left buy-side firms and administration companies worldwide scrambling to keep up with changes in order to...
It’s no secret that institutional traders are utilizing transaction cost analysis (TCA) for equities trading as a tool for measuring execution quality and reducing slippage against trading benchmarks....
US Regulators are seeking a “Culture of Compliance” among trading firms. Global regulators are increasing their scrutiny of market manipulation. New regulations are requiring broker dealers to know mo...
When I first considered the significance and impact that the Senior Management Regime (SMR) would have on banking standards, I immediately thought of the words of King Henry IV from Shakespeare’s Henr...
Traditionally Financial Institutions have been collecting application forms along with the physical supporting documents like Proof of Identity, Proof of Address, Proof of Birth, Certificate of Incorp...
I saw a news article recently about how high frequency trading firms are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to improve their trading performance and profit. Two large companies were mentioned wit...
The Identity Protection PIN tool on the IRS.gov site has been temporarily suspended—because it was recently hacked into. The tool provides retrieval of forgotten or lost IP PINs to users who want an e...
Facebook-owned WhatsApp, a cross-platform mobile messaging apps, announced their new default security encryption settings for their end-users. What does this really mean for their one billion plus use...
Efforts to reform the banking sector and stimulate competition within the market, such as the 7-Day switch guarantee introduced by the Government in 2013, have made it less complex and time consuming ...