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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued guidelines on the exemption criteria for market makers under the short selling provisions. The template forms that are required to be c...
Post-Lehman, risk information has been in high demand. Still, there seems to exist a “risk gap” among risk managers and risk takers including fund managers and traders in the front office who continue...
Standards play a vital role in the prudent management of financial systems. With the advent of electronic payment products, transaction volumes are increasing and the requirement to exchange data i
McCormack told a good story about the chairman of Rolex not knowing much about the watch business as he said his company was in luxury business. What many people missed or simply didn't pay much atte...
Can cash and trade get along? How can corporations benefit and how can banks deliver the benefits? A much talked about subject in the industry is the convergence of cash and trade within the bank. Th...
Hoping to unwind on the AVE back to Madrid after a frenetic 2 days at Mobile World Congress, I can't help but ponder my insights and learnings as we cut across the Spanish countryside at 300 KM/H. It'...
I'm actively following the PR hype about Digital Mailboxes (you know - one place to get/save all my financial documents) – just waiting for Google (through Gmail) to announce its intentions in this sp...
Discussions in Brussels between EU country representatives on European banking ended last night, with the decision taken to automatically cap banker bonuses at the level of their salary or two times t...
Over the last year, many companies have been re-evaluating their strategy for managing Brazil Nota Fiscal and Latin America eInvoicing in general. These changes are due to Production Support issues a...
The debate about Financial Transaction Taxes (FTTs) seems to roll on and on. Italy’s FTT is due to come into force this Friday and two democrats in the US want to introduce an American FTT. Even EU Ta...
On the plane back from a meeting recently, I got to thinking about the complexity of compliance. The sheer number of new and evolving regulations that are coming down the road is simply staggering. Im...
There is a lot of discussions and activities around the revival of the good old ATM. Some are trying to make these machines more user centric like Wells Fargo. Some are trying to improve the overal...