1026 Results from /wholesale
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
One HSBC is a scheme that aims to move 55 core banking systems, 24 credit card systems, 41 internet banking systems, 40 desktop standards and five unique trading rooms on to one global platform by 2011. Three years in and the $1 billion project is already paying for itself. Finextra issued a progress report back in August. In an interview with Co...
07 November 2008 /retail /wholesale
Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research
XML is not new but you would be forgiven for thinking it is, in the financial services industry. Now that ISO20022 is grabbing some attention there is an inevitable growing interest in XML. A few years ago the FSA in the UK started a project to move towards XBRL, one of the many derivatives that have been sporned from the origins of XML. The proje...
07 November 2008 /security /wholesale MiFID
Retired Member
With the sum of $600 trillion CDS, it now looks as though the sub-prime crisis is a relatively benign subject. It is safe to say that a lot of these CDS' spread have increased because of the current economic crisis and the number of defaults. How much of this $600 trillion CDS is affected by credit defaults is a very good thing to know at this poin...
06 November 2008 /regulation /wholesale
The financial services industry has been taking a bit of battering over the last few years with executives of leading institutions behaving in a way that goes way beyond greed and moral responsibility. The actions of the few have tainted the majority of people who work in financial services that operate with a high degree of ethics and work hard t...
31 October 2008 /wholesale EBAday
It is interesting to note that after a little more than a decade, Canada has decided to stop investing and creating technologies and market infrastructure for cheque imaging to make the paper clearing process faster, safer and better. North American countries in particular have been investing a lot, over the last couple of decades, on imaging prog...
28 October 2008 /payments /wholesale Futuristic Banking
With what appears to be impeccable timing, Hollywood is awash with reports of the imminent return of Gordon Gekko, the ultimate master of the universe, in a reprise of the 1987 blockbuster Wall Street. With a working title Money Never Sleeps, the new movie will see Gekko released from jail to confront the financial market meltdown afflicting moder...
24 October 2008 /wholesale Where are they now?
Excel is a powerful tool. Like a chainsaw, in the hands of a skilled operator it is hugely effective – but in untrained or rushed hands and without the proper safety equipment it can be positively dangerous. This latest story of spreadsheet mayhem is just another illustration of the power to get it wrong. Microsoft themselves understand that for s...
15 October 2008 /regulation /wholesale Operational Risk Management
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14 October 2008 /wholesale Whatever...
When you listen to the news and read the various reports on the financial crisis, the market's crash it is always intertwined with the problems in the economy. However, the two do not have as close a link as the media always report. The economy is a slow moving beast with impacts both good and bad taking time to filter through. The economy has mor...
14 October 2008 /retail /wholesale Data Management 101
The Financial Services Authority, in its latest missive to bank CEOs, says it has no wish to become involved in setting bank remuneration levels. Yet, despite these assurances, the regulator has made it patently clear that the bonus-driven excesses of the past will no longer be tolerated. "There is widespread concern that inappropriate remune...
13 October 2008 /regulation /wholesale
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