25 Results from 2015, /wholesale
Retired Member
Another day, another robo-advice headline. It’s a human truth: we love to dissect a new trend and debate its merits. Internet communication amplifies this and we risk developing a distorted view of priorities; in particular, how to fill the growing mass-market advice gap. Here’s some context: type in robo-advice and Google returns over 900K entrie...
07 December 2015 /wholesale
From pins and passwords to biometrics and palm vein readers... are we really becoming more secure? We are changing to new ways of identification and data security that are very depending on our physical identities. What will the impact be on our security? Data and information security is one of the burning concerns of financial services institution...
07 October 2015 /wholesale
Anand Sampathkumar VP, Head Products & Settlements Reference Data at Standard Chartered Bank
The last decade brought out the importance of service as a differentiator. It is important to ride the technology growth to provide differentiators in products & services. The reference of “Information age” is just taking shape. Exciting bigger action is waiting to happen. To ride this wave and maximise returns we need to focus on the four let...
07 October 2015 /wholesale Data Management 101
Hans Tesselaar Executive Director at BIAN
In the last few years the financial landscape has been drastically changing shape, with new technology entrants coming onto the market and offering innovative solutions to financial services. The FinTech wave has even made its way onto the political agenda – Chancellor George Osborne announced a plan to boost competition by encouraging banks to op...
21 July 2015 /retail /wholesale
Paul Blank e-Trading Solutions at TradAir
Interesting to see that Profit&Loss running a story that the US futures Exchange ICE may be preparing to buy our all three shareholders (Credit Suisse, BNY Mellon and FXCM) of FX platform Fastmatch for around $200m-$250m. As the FX market continues to fragment, and higher regulatory costs for bilateral trades start to bite, exchanges are no dou...
20 July 2015 /wholesale
The majority of single-dealer platforms (SDPs) – especially those of regional banks, provide mainly principal (rather than agency) based pricing to clients. That’s where the bank takes the other side of the trade (even if the bank covers the trades by back-to-back hedging with their liquidity providers), making their money on the spread, rather th...
13 July 2015 /wholesale
The major OTC FX platforms have now reported their Jun 15 volumes. In terms of spot FX, EBS and FastMatch show decent 5%+ gains, whilst Reuters spot volumes fall 1.8% to their lowest levels of 2015. The Reuters-EBS gap continues to narrow (smallest gap of 2015), showing spot flows continuing to move from Reuters to EBS. And I would suspect the...
12 July 2015 /wholesale
In the 1985 movie Back to the Future Doc Brown coined the immortal phrase “Marty, where we’re going we don’t need roads”. In 2015 we can coin a new phrase “Boss, where we’re going we don’t need Humans.” The future is hidden in plain sight. Multi billion dollar corporations that run without the need for people sounds like Hollywood fiction but t...
01 July 2015 /wholesale
Centralized Limits and Collateral Management In their quest for excellence corporate banks have adopted best of breed solutions for each line of business. Therefore the trade finance team would have selected the best Trade Finance Solution, the Loan Syndication Team would have another solution and the working capital / term loans / project finance...
23 June 2015 /regulation /wholesale
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