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The recent claim by CME exchange and assisted regulators that its taken 5 years of monitoring to catch "Nav" the spoofer proves that perhaps anonymity trading no longer is required ? Perha...
In advance of the Insurance Times Disruption Conference, I've commented on Innovation in this weeks Insurance Times magazine, 26th March 2015 Edition. I have included below my article. Enjoy! I’m luc...
With its aim of increasing transparency around execution quality, under the current draft technical standards MiFID II will require investment firms to provide an annual execution quality report that...
Garbage in, garbage out. It is hugely frustrating when your state-of-the-art risk, pricing or optimisation system is let down by dodgy data, the artful algorithms rendered impotent by gaps and inaccur...
It’s up to the potential victim—the user—YOU—to make your computer or smartphone very difficult for Joe Hackster to infiltrate. Passwords Being that cyber crime has been a fixture of modern living fo...
If they have not already started, Domestically Significant Investment Banks (D-SIBs) should start working on their BCBS239 compliance strategies immediately if they are to avoid the difficulties exper...
In early March the European Banking Authority (EBA) published a consultation paper outlining draft regulatory standards for the minimum set of data that institutions should hold on their contracts wit...
or Spare a Thought for the Poor Can’t-Win Regulators. Regulators are about as popular among Financial Inclusion enthusiasts as a football (soccer) referee. Referees get credit for slowing the pace of ...
Although most news stories today, unfortunately, tend to be negative, every once and a while there is positive news so compelling that it is worth highlighting in a blog. This post describes the re
Delivering a positive client experience is becoming increasingly important for payment providers, especially in light of growing competition from challengers. SLA breaches, or ineffective management ...
I have just read a fascinating report from ING. In their International Survey, ‘The Rise of Mobile Banking and the Changing Face of Payments in the Digital Age’, ING have surveyed users across Europe ...
The total number of UK charitable donations made by Direct Debit rose to a record breaking 60 million in 2014, according to data from Bacs Payment Schemes, with values exceeding £1.21 billion, a ris...