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Gary Wright

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A plan for euro replacement

As the politicians in the Eurozone appear incapable of coming up with a rescue plan or any plan to implement an orderly retreat I have been thinking of what might happen. So far the politicians’ only idea, has been to flood money into whatever country is teetering on the edge, in the hope of buying enough time to resolve the cause of the illness, c...

28 November 2011 Post-Trade Forum

400 million euro; for what?

At a recent conference a senior member of the T2S development team said that to date €350m had been spent on development and this was likely to rise to about €400m due to the 9 months delay announced at SIBOS. Let me say it again €400m! When T2S was devised in pre 2006, the world was a very different place and in those days a technology platform to...

18 November 2011 /regulation /sibos Post-Trade Forum

Rating Agencies Stampeding Cattle

Since the first signs of the Credit Crunch and the debacle of bad asset valuation in the subprime disaster, the role of Credit Rating Agencies has created deep concern for Governments and Regulators alike. The independence that the finance industry always expected of ratings was almost unquestioned before, but not since. This begs the question ho...

17 November 2011 /sibos Post-Trade Forum

Will M and A be hit; or is it business as usual?

Last week I attended a breakfast meeting at Cass Business School, a heavyweight panel consisting of Lord Lyndon Harrison, Chairman of the Lords’ Committee For Economic and Financial Affairs and International Trade, Professor Scott Moeller, Director of the M&A Research Centre, Cass Business School, Frances O’Grady, Deputy General Secretary, TUC...

09 November 2011 /regulation Post-Trade Forum

What's the point of MTFs?

When MiFID was written one of its objectives was to create increased competition to the Stock Exchanges. The view being that the Stock Exchanges were operating in what looked like a monopoly and with mergers they would be creating further monopolistic positions. This was considered bad for investors as it limited choice and forced acceptance of th...

07 November 2011 /sibos /wholesale Post-Trade Forum

Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts!

No sooner than the Eurozone crisis appears to be moving into calmer waters than another shock wave hits. Only a week ago it looked like Merkel and Sarkozy had agreed a deal to buy some time to ultimately solve the Eurozone crisis and now it looks like the whole thing is going to collapse. I know a week is a long time in politics but this is becomi...

02 November 2011 /payments Post-Trade Forum

Things to come

The MiFID review as expected is going to clobber the existing market causing massive changes in the execution and post execution of trades. Many people outside of trading will be very worried about the long term impacts on their business. While investors should be feeling a warm glow, as they will be finally be sure of getting a good deal. Attacks...

24 October 2011 /sibos Post-Trade Forum

Now is the winter of our discontent

This October, it’s 25 years since ‘Big Bang’ and with the current global financial and economic disaster inflicting everyone on the planet and protests against capitalism worldwide, a reflection on the last 25 years is called for. There has been many market and economic downturns over the past 25 years. They are a regular occurrence. Like winter t...

20 October 2011 Post-Trade Forum

Outsourcing:The loss of knowledge

The last Post-Trade Forum debate was all about the pros and cons of outsourcing v internalisation. A cross industry panel of outsourcing experts debated with an audience of equal experts and thrashed the topic to arrive at some really interesting conclusions and observations. Not least was operational memory loss. This knowledge can be expensive t...

19 October 2011 /regulation Post-Trade Forum

Data: the need to take out the cost

According to the latest research over half of the world’s population is now connected by the Internet. Most of this connectivity has been achieved within the last decade with the remainder of the modern world likely to have some form of connection within the next decade. This is an almost unimaginable result and sets a base level to which business...

14 October 2011 Post-Trade Forum

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A plan for euro replacement

400 million euro; for what?

Rating Agencies Stampeding Cattle

Will M and A be hit; or is it business as usual?

What's the point of MTFs?

Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts!

Things to come

Now is the winter of our discontent

Outsourcing:The loss of knowledge

Data: the need to take out the cost

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