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Operational Risk Management

To share information, ideas and experience relating to all aspects of op-risk management and compliance with Basel II

Shawn Hughes

Shawn Hughes 

5 Tips for FinTech Leaders to Navigate the Uncertain Road Ahead

Almost no one alive today has previously encountered a crisis quite like the COVID-19 pandemic. But change truly is the only constant in life, business and banking, so agility is an attribute that great FinTech leaders must embody. Here are five tips to successfully steer a future-focused organization when the road ahead is unclear: 1. Make sure...

/retail /covid-19

Madhukar Ramu

Madhukar Ramu Executive Director at IHS Markit

Corporate Actions during COVID-19: First wave of impact

A number of companies have reported earnings over the past few weeks, providing an early insight into how the COVID-19 outbreak has had a significant impact on revenues and profits in the first quarter of 2020. Many companies refrained from providing full year guidance stating significant uncertainties in assessing the time period of the pandemic ...

/markets /covid-19

Brittany Garland

Brittany Garland Executive Director at IHS Markit

Sell-Side Onboarding: How to Turn It into a Competitive Advantage

In the past, onboarding has been overlooked and undervalued, but sell-side organizations are recognizing that the process is critical to their ability to compete for and retain clients. For both the buy sides and sell sides, onboarding has remained a manual, ad hoc process. While other operational areas have benefited from next-generation technolo...

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Peter Bannister

Peter Bannister SVP Governance, Risk and Compliance at MetricStream

How to handle and prepare for unforeseen global risks

In just a matter of weeks, the outbreak of COVID-19 took the world by surprise and upended our economies, businesses, and way of life. In response to the crisis, we have seen companies quickly action business continuity plans and transition to working remotely following the strict lockdown measures imposed by many governments. Over the years, the ...

/regulation /covid-19

Martin Kisby

Martin Kisby Head of Compliance at Equiniti Credit Services

SM&CR - what is it and why do we need it?

Following the banking crisis in 2008, the Parliamentary Commission for Banking Standards (PCBS) recommended the creation of a new framework focused on increasing senior management accountability. Based on this recommendation, Parliament passed legislation in December 2013 that prompted the primary regulators of the financial services sector, the F...

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Retired Member

Retired Member 

How the Next Generation are Shaping the Future of Trading

The EU’s e-Privacy regulation, which is expected in 2019, is set to be the next major piece of legislation designed to protect the privacy and security of personal information. A step on from GDPR, e-Privacy protects meta data (as well as voice and email data) and will oversee and regulate privacy in ‘Over the Top’ eComms channels (i.e. social me...

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Neil Crammond

Neil Crammond risk education & real time market abuse at DIVENTO FINANCIALS

WHY ANONYMOUS TRADING ALLOWS MARKET ABUSE

One of the very few benefits of open outcry trading was the fact that traders could see everyone trading and the chances of rogue trading was easier to spot compared to today. Through a virtual pit traders can see all bids and offers and completed deals as all traders have to be identified , therefore visible to the market place ? This simple

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Freddie McMahon

Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd

Conversation-as-a-Service: decision distortions and deceptions

The shift towards specialist chatbots has highlighted how organisations are vulnerable to decision distortions and deceptions, with the way their people work deep within the organisation. This vulnerability relates to inherent weaknesses within repetitive tasks, which are reliant upon individuals making accurate decisions. The scope is extensive ...

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Freddie McMahon

Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd

Frugal Engineering to digitalise Standard Operating Procedures

Frugal Engineering is the science of breaking up complex engineering processes to reduce the complexity and cost of producing products, without compromising quality. One example of Frugal Engineering is the use of emergent tools designed for people to build and deploy chatbot products without the need for software engineers. Within these authoring ...

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Iosif Itkin

Iosif Itkin CEO at Exactpro

Fearless Testing and Post-Trade Systems Disruption

Our work focuses on functional and nonfunctional testing, most of the business being in the market infrastructure space, exchanges and clearing. Three principles can help you to test even the most sophisticated technology platforms. They are: No Trust No Fear No Begging True courage is required when one faces disruptive technology. What is the di...

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