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Gary Wright

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Outsourcing takes a blow

The recent announcement by Penson that it is undertaking a massive restructuring worldwide including selling the UK (and potentially the Australian) Back office outsourcing business could be an indicator that the existing outsourced industry is about to go into a mass change. Penson have tried to become a world supplier of back office outsourced s...

15 August 2011 Post-Trade Forum

The value of European CCPs

In an industry full of risks the role of the central counterparty is perhaps the most important of the market infrastructures. The recent past shows distinctly how much firms have had to rely on CCPs when markets go into massive volatility swings. It’s not the slides so much as the swings. As massive share price rises can cause almost as much coun...

03 August 2011 Post-Trade Forum

SaaS Regulations and the IT Rat-Race

There is a real interest growing from buy-side firms to move away from licensing software as on-going regulatory changes hit budgets hard. Many wealth managers have said to me for years that the black hole that is the IT budget is proving a drain on business development and improved investor services. It is ironic that many software firms often use...

28 July 2011 Post-Trade Forum

The Cloud is hovering this Summer

Outsourcing in financial services has a real chequered history. Successful outsourcing has been matched by unsuccessful outsourcing, resulting in doubt on its benefits by the majority of financial services firms. More people than I can remember have said to me over the years that outsourcing just doesn’t work, there are far too many risks and the ...

26 July 2011 Post-Trade Forum

Outsource or insource?

I have spoken to many vendors over the years about their business and how prospects are looking and I usually get the same response.They are always competing with inhouse developers. This despite a growing list of failed in-house developments and a increasing list of new developments needed to be compliant. Equally I speak often to financial servi...

20 July 2011 Post-Trade Forum

Did the Murdochs hack it?

Having watched today's performance of both the Murdochs at the Parliamentary Select Committee investigation into phone hacking. It was fascinating to see one of the world’s toughest business men Rupert Murdoch, humbly brought down on the hard ground of realism. Flanked by his son James the battle worn hack threw his dignity out of the window and t...

19 July 2011

Banks fail EBA stress tests

The stress tests are set so low and are missing the most key in todays market with sovereign debt. Still some banks across Europe has failed. What good are these tests and do they tell us anything about the ability of the Banking system to cope with similar dramatic events we have seen in the past few years? Markets falling 15% is pretty modest it...

15 July 2011

Retail banks get consumer happy

Innovation in the retail banking industry is surely a oxymoron! Never noted for out-of-the-box thinking sleepy bankers have always been very keen to protect what they have and just take the money. Not anymore if EBA Day is to be believed. It's very refreshing that with SEPA finally on the home straight, bankers have been looking to alternative reve...

16 June 2011 /payments EBAday

SEPA a rule of convenience

SEPA is going to get a firm date at last but where are the sanctions for countries who don't comply? I have said this many times before but rules without a penalty are not worth writing. It's of course the European way to be collaborative and well, just nice, but this is hardly a frightening prospect for great big hairy global bankers. However, le...

16 June 2011 /payments EBAday

Global respect needed for Basel III or it will fail

So Basel III looms large but will it be in-step with the rest of the world? We all know that we are now in a global economy and financial services has to come to terms with a rapidly changing world and increasing demands of politicians, regulators, customers and technology but does Basel III have the scope to cover the world's markets and its nee...

16 June 2011 /payments EBAday

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Outsourcing takes a blow

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Outsource or insource?

Did the Murdochs hack it?

Banks fail EBA stress tests

Retail banks get consumer happy

SEPA a rule of convenience

Global respect needed for Basel III or it will fail

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