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Technology is the key to addressing new liquidity requirements

Having spent much of 2014 getting to grips with new capital reporting requirements, European banks are now shifting their focus to liquidity monitoring and reporting. Over the course of 2015, they face significant changes to the way they calculate and report on their liquidity, and to the frequency of their regulatory disclosures. In order to keep...

/regulation /wholesale

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Why Financial Services Executives Should be Be Afraid, Very Afraid

We are almost at the end of February and in the world of change in the City of London (and maybe elsewhere?) it feels as if 2015 is off to a very slow start. This is in direct contrast to the previous few years when by late January things were moving with urgency, especially on the regulatory agenda. I am very familiar with the City’s annual cycle...

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Neil Crammond

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

HAS HIGH SPEED PINGING FINALLY BEEN CAPTURED ?

HAS HIGH SPEED PINGING FINALLY FOUND A CATEGORY IN MARKET ABUSE ? HFT has tip toed through the market abuse field for years BUT now looks finally to have been captured . Under the COMMODITY EXCHANGE ACT (ECA) and the prohobition of spoofing ; "bidding or offering wth the intent to cancel before execution " has placed their 90% cancellat

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Summary of Risk Mitigation Standards for Non-Centrally Cleared OTC Derivatives

Following a consultation process to a proposed report, late last month the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) published its final report outlining standards to help reduce risk in the non-centrally cleared OTC derivatives markets. The report, titled “Risk Mitigation Standards for Non-Centrally Cleared OTC Derivatives,” ha...

/regulation Financial Services Regulation

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On a quest for answers in Paris

Travelling to Paris today for tomorrow’s open hearing on MiFID II, the two issues I’ll be mulling over on the Eurostar will be record keeping for trading venues and transaction reporting. Both could potentially trigger significant changes in front and middle office workflows for many trading firms. At the core of my concerns lies the requirement f...

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Gregory King

Gregory King Senior Vice President at FactSet Limited

Audit trails: the road to success

The global financial crisis precipitated six tough years for the sector. In its wake, fierce criticism prompted industry bodies around the world to introduce stringent regulations requiring in-depth auditing. With such vast amounts of information needing to be accounted for, data management systems that ensure complete corporate accountability hav...

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Cryptocurrencies Still Pose Tremendous Risk to Investors

Looking back on virtual currencies and how regulation is catching up! Digital currencies are fast becoming attractive to investors owing to their high degree of volatility, relative anonymity and tax benefits. But behind the scenes, various regulatory authorities have been burning the candle at both ends to find ways of protecting everyday trade...

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Abhishek Chatterjee

Abhishek Chatterjee Managing Partner at Gartner Inc.

Mobile banking strategy driven by Internet of smart things

While world is transitioning to digital economy, its Important to notice the rise of IoST (Internet of smart things). According to Gartner there are 3 trends driving Digital Business; And intelligent Mobile devices are at the centre of it:- Democratization of Technology - smart things that will start to make decisions - Smart cars, Homes, Meters e...

/regulation Online Banking

Hugo Cuevas-Mohr

Hugo Cuevas-Mohr CEO at Mohr World Consulting - IMTC Conferences

On De-Risking, The Somalian Remittance Crisis and the MSB Bank Discontinuance crisis

In English, a “moving target” is when you set your expectation for something – some task, some desirable outcome, a target, and then when it is met you ‘move the target’ and set another expectation. It means that the person or entity you have set the expectation for is never able to fulfill it, never reaching the target. And “De-Risking” is fast b...

/payments /regulation Financial Services Regulation

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Is Agile the answer to the question?

To be Agile or agile – it is all in the capitalisation! “Are you familiar with “agile methodologies” is a question I am increasingly asked as a change professional and my answer is “Yes”. The problem is that the question is badly phrased and as a result the answer is not always very helpful. “Agile” seems to be the current silver bullet (ie solve e...

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