206 Results from 2012, /regulation
Retired Member
If any publicity is good publicity, the Dodd-Frank Act got a healthy shot in the arm from the two candidates for U.S. president during their first debate on Wednesday, with each contender discussing financial regulation at length. “You have to have regulation, and there are some parts of Dodd-Frank that make all the sense in the world,” former Mas...
04 October 2012 /regulation
Part 5 In order to monitor systemic risks as near to real-time as possible regulators have introduced the requirement for market participants to report all OTC derivatives trading activity to swap data repositories (SDR).The aim is to boost transparency and surveillance capability. The idea is strikingly elegant, yet fraught with complexity when i...
02 October 2012 /regulation
The European Parliament’s financial committee decided last week to rein in the velocity of high-frequency trading. The Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee’s unanimous vote paves the way for a half-second speed limit on those using computers to execute lightning-fast stock deals. “All market players and trading venue operators would be required ...
Part 4 Authors: Kersten Martin Meyer and Tom Riesack Collateral: banks, broker-dealers, funds and clearinghouses all need it more than ever. Collateralisation of bilateral as well as cleared OTC trades is essential to ensure a functioning and stable financial market that is able to absorb potential shocks of Lehman-esque dimensions. Upcoming regul...
26 September 2012 /regulation
Each week seems to be worse than the last in terms of outages that are affecting leading B2C brands. Whether it's the banking industry, web service providers or retailers, the severity and impact of being off-line is earning C-level attention, and not in a good way. IT continues to talk about disaster recovery or application and infrastructure re...
25 September 2012 /regulation
After almost two years since the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) was put on the statute books, the first swap-related articles finally take effect on 12th October this year. Now everyone can be assured they are trading, clearing and reporting under a common set of rules, right? Not so. While DFA requires market participants to report OTC trades to Swap Data ...
18 September 2012 /regulation
FATCA is on everyone’s minds right now, with many financial institutions trying to figure out cost-effective and efficient ways to comply with this new IRS-driven regulation. However, it is important to remember that FATCA is not the only regulation. In fact, it’s only one of many similar regulations that are expected to descend on financial insti...
18 September 2012 /regulation Financial Services Regulation
In today’s connected world it is critical that all transactions are running as efficiently as possible, and for organisations such as banks, ensuring any cash and payment services are working at all times is vital. Over the last nine months we have seen many technical slip ups which have cost banks a fortune in damaged reputation – granted some hav...
17 September 2012 /regulation
Obine Adoh Managing Consultant at Deitec Global Solutions Ltd
The case of data theft at Julius Baer is a stark reminder of the need to protect confidential information from being exploited by employees. On the whole, banks trust their employees. However once they have successfully passed security checks granting them access to confidential information, the trust initially granted could become misplaced, sho...
14 September 2012 /security /regulation
Martin Bailey Technology Product Director at Temenos
I'm not, by nature, a suspicious man. But whenever I receive an unsolicited email from an institution with which I hold any kind of account, I resist the convenient temptation of clicking on the link in the email. I always go to my browser and type the address in myself - it's the only way to be sure. I assumed that everyone else did the same, but...
11 September 2012 /security /regulation Online Banking
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