4459 Results from /regulation
Retired Member
Devil Dogs helped get trading started at the New York Stock Exchange Friday, with a United States Marine ringing the Opening Bell, flanked by fellow Marines and service members from the other branches. It followed a moment of silence by traders on the floor and in brokerages across the country. And five Medal of Honor recipients will be on hand fo...
11 November 2011 /regulation
A key driver for central counterparty (CCP) interoperability is greater competition in clearing, to bring down costs for customers. In what is an already aggressive European market, all interoperable CCPs have announced fee reductions. However, customers should not select a CCP solely based on cost. With additional financial instruments being trans...
Nikhil Mittal Financial Crimes Consultant at Wells Fargo
The hush-hush on the street is Greece is out, Italy may go down, next in line could potentially be Spain and so on. The newspapers are ripe with the last minute reforms and short-term strategies to bail-out some of the largest economies within the Euro zone, steps like resignations of the top leaders and acceptence of reforms by some to save the s...
09 November 2011 /payments /regulation Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research
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
Systemic risk was at the heart of the financial crisis of 2008, and is again on everyone's mind as the current sovereign debt crisis unfolds. Regulatory and industry efforts are, therefore, focusing on getting a more accurate view of risk exposures across asset classes, lines of business and firms in order to better predict and manage systemic int...
07 November 2011 /regulation
Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional
The BIS released came out with a list of 'systemically important' banks.http://www.bis.org/publ/bcbs207.htm So, we now officially acknowledge that whatever happens, even if some countries go down, these banks cannot afford to fail. It reallymeans that whatever these banks do, we have to accept with grace and humility. It doesn't help that many of ...
06 November 2011 /regulation /retail Finance 2.0
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Five or ten years ago, it was relatively easy for scammers to trick people into opening email attachments that would launch malicious programs on victims’ PCs. Nowadays, most email providers won’t permit .exe attachments, so viruses may be saved as compressed files, or hidden behind links that appear to lead to PDFs or word documents. Scammers hav...
04 November 2011 /security /regulation
With the advent of central counterparty (CCP) interoperability in Europe, 2011 has been the year where we have finally witnessed competition at the clearing layer of securities trading. Recent interoperability agreements between CCPs represent enormous progress, but there is still a long way to go before we have a truly competitive European post-t...
28 October 2011 /regulation
Dear Bank IT Manager, It is incredible how fast time passes. I think that the same week of my last post I sowed rocket seeds in my vegetable patch. Well, I still cannot eat the rocket but it is clearly visible in its row now and surrounded by spinach, cabbages and celery. Anyway, I would imagine that you are probably not very interested about this...
26 October 2011 /payments /regulation Finance 2.0
There are, apparently, over 500 million Facebook users worldwide and 26 million in the UK, which is a staggering proportion of the global and UK population. Social networks are by their very nature all about sharing; sharing experiences, our latest news, likes and dislikes and sometimes our personal information. Whilst we all like to share – and we...
24 October 2011 /security /regulation Online Banking
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