230 Results from 2015, /regulation
Retired Member
Market making, at its core, is a simple exchange where the market maker gives immediate liquidity and takes the bid/ask spread in return. This is set to become much more complicated in MiFID II as ESMA is mandated to introduce market making obligations. Under ESMA’s latest draft investment firms using algorithmic trading for market making for at le...
06 February 2015 /regulation
Many of us in the financial industry developed professionally in a world that has been about technology. However, today the curve is absolutely steeper and we see disruptive innovations transforming businesses and entire sectors. Just think about how Uber and PayPal have changed the nature of their fields. Last week at the World Economic Forum ...
30 January 2015 /regulation
The banks are under intense pressure to prove they can withstand future crises, but that's just half the story. Financial institutions are at breaking point, trying to balance compliance obligations with the need to modernise core systems. The capital adequacy tests, often referred to as stress tests, involve highly manual, IT-intensive efforts - ...
30 January 2015 /regulation /retail
Ramani Balakrishnan Transformation Solutions at TCS
During my discussions with analysts , I observed that various retail banks especially mortgage lenders struggling with implementation of new regulations in their IT systems. Especially if you have a third party LOS, or legacy technology LOS, or 'heavily customized-unsupported-by vendor' LOS - it is going to be nightmare. Also if you are in the pro...
29 January 2015 /regulation /retail
Mitzi Pryce Senior Consultant at BCS Consulting
As the frosts of winter really begin to bite, many of the mammoth remediation programmes surrounding the mis-selling of interest rate hedging products (IRHPs) are nearing their end. Since the problem was first brought to the attention of the regulators in 2012 over 14,000 customers have been offered redress with over £1.5 billon having been paid o...
29 January 2015 /regulation
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… It is a period of calm, with primary exchanges enjoying relatively little competition thanks to concentration rules enforced in many EU countries requiring all equity business to be conducted on exchange. The arrival of a new disruptor, in the form of MiFID I, is about to turn their lives upside down fore...
22 January 2015 /regulation
2014 was a challenging year of regulatory implementation for the buyside, beginning in February with the first European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) deadline (matters were little helped by the guidelines changing a day before they became mandatory). Now, firms are grappling with the new challenges that have emerged after almost a year o...
Joe Dunphy Head of Product Management at Fenergo
Financial institutions have emerged from the rigorous regulatory and data demands of 2014 a little battle weary, suffering a few scrapes and scars, but otherwise unscathed. On a whole, 2014 will be remembered as the year when regulators started to flex their muscles, levying a record number of fines and promising to become more involved at an earl...
21 January 2015 /regulation
'The universal banking model is dead,' Antony Jenkins, Barclays’ chief executive, told the FT in December. 'It is not all about capital. It is also about investment in technology [...] We believe that technology is going to drive competitive advantage in this industry and you can’t afford to invest in technology in every place — so you have to pi...
19 January 2015 /regulation /startups
Regulation of the financial markets is a never-ending process of modification, improvement and extension. Nowhere is this clearer than in the case of the Basel Accords. It is now five years since the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision developed Basel III in response to the global financial crisis. In the intervening years, the Basel Committee h...
19 January 2015 /regulation /wholesale
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