4482 Results from /regulation
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Donald Trump's surprise election win looks like good news for Wall Street, with bank stocks such as Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo all ending in the green in the days following Trump’s victory, increasing overall in value by 4%. Ignoring the possible impacts of inflationary increases or even vo...
30 January 2017 /regulation
With hindsight, last year’s discussion about the differences in defining direct electronic access (DEA) under MiFID II and RegAT may have been somewhat premature. Firstly, with the change in both the US administration and the CFTC leadership it is now uncertain how RegAT will be progressed. Secondly, over the last few months it’s become clear that...
27 January 2017 /regulation
In November 2016, The European Commission (EC) announced a proposal for new rules to ensure that Central Clearing Counterparties (CCPs) are dealt with more effectively when things go wrong. There has been much debate in recent years on the level of risk found within CCPs and the overall need for regulation that will ensure the recovery and resoluti...
25 January 2017 /regulation
When computers were first developed, only people who knew operating system commands could use them. The advent of graphical interfaces changed that. Before the arrival of the internet, information was carefully curated and coded by librarians. Now anyone with a web browser has access to encyclopedias’ worth of information. At one time, only profes...
24 January 2017 /regulation
Jeremy Light Co-founder at Fourdotzero
The measures in the PSD2 (and in the UK, the CMA banking remedies) to open up consumer banking data to third parties will undoubtedly lead to new innovations and consumer benefits, but I see three challenges: 1) a potential gap between expectations on using open banking consumer data, and the reality of what is actually allowed 2) public understand...
23 January 2017 /payments /regulation
Liquidation Only. Did your heart skip a beat? In futures and options trading when we hear “Liquidation Only” it means that something went wrong. Someone is losing money. The broker wants all new investments to stop. In the world of electronic trading with direct access through software there is no longer someone thinking about the client and the br...
21 January 2017 /regulation Capital Markets Technology
Banks are struggling with email. It’s no longer an immediate form of communication, for most of us it’s a massive headache, and most importantly it’s risky. It’s too easy to send something from the wrong email address, or to the wrong person. Content can be leaked, or end up in the public domain. (Just ask Hilary Clinton, Michael Gove, or the Krem...
20 January 2017 /security /regulation
GDPR might give people the right to be forgotten, but finding them, understanding the context of their conversations, and figuring out if they really can be deleted while still complying with other regulatory and legal obligations such as MiFID II is a quandary many organisations are going to remember for some time. One of the problems is the way ...
19 January 2017 /regulation
It's difficult to argue against any sensible form of regulation that ultimately makes the financial markets fairer and safer for all participants, but implementing and complying with all the new rules that apply across our industry is, undeniably, a very costly business. So when President-elect Trump's newly sworn-in, eager-to-please United State...
This month marks the second anniversary of the deadly attacks in Paris, when terrorists Said and Cherif Kouachi attacked the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine on January 7, 2015 and when Amedy Coulibaly, a friend of the Kouachi brothers gunned down innocent grocery shoppers and held 15 others hostage in the Hyper Cacher attack. Together, the three ...
17 January 2017 /payments /regulation
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