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Archive for: August, 2007

Elton Cane - Independent - Brisbane | 07/08/2007 | 2664 views

I participated in a roundtable recently held by compliance vendor NetConsent. It was a fairly broad-ranging discussion about how digital certificate and e-signature solutions have evolved and been adopted (or not, as the case may be) by businesses and governments over the past 10 years.One interesting example that came up is the way the Swedish gov... Tags: Dealing rooms, Wholesale banking

Elton Cane - Independent - Brisbane | 02/08/2007 | 2270 views

Market data boom part 2 - more numbers

Following on from Chris Pickle's response to the recent TowerGroup study on regulation-driven market data volume growth, it was interesting to note Datamonitor's similar report being published this week.It refers to market data volumes doubling annually (which is something that is apparently happening already without MiFID and Reg NMS). And... Tags: Dealing rooms, Trade execution

John Cant - MPI Europe Ltd - London | 02/08/2007 | 1902 views

MiFID - gunpowder, treason and plot

The FSA have proposed this week that the cutover date for MiFID transaction reporting should move from 1st November to 5th November (i.e. to a more conventional Monday go live date) giving more time over the weekend to switch over and test the new processes and systems. This is, at face value, a practical move that is likely to make the switchover ... Tags: Trade execution, Wholesale banking

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