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The Post Trade Forum's aim is to propagate debate and discussion between senior practitioners in Post Trade Operations in the global securities market; to bring about increased awareness and knowledge across both buy-side and sell-side financial institutions in financial products and be a focal point for firms and practitioners to air views.
Abstract The financial crisis of 2008 was an inflection point for the financial markets which have never been the same since then. Rated one of the worst financial crises the world faced since the gre...
In recent times, large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the field of natural language processing, demonstrating impressive capabilities in understanding and generating human-like text. Howev...
The speed at which money moves through and around our economy has never been faster. Whether you’re looking at P2P payment apps like Venmo, Bitcoin’s meteoric rise, or the recent rollout of the Federa...
The financial services sector is complex and laden with niche specialisms. Companies have had to integrate a range of disparate tools and workflows to cope with such a convoluted and sensitive environ...
Firms operating in the capital markets space are used to adapting to regulatory change and constant market disruption. True though this may be, every so often, the ground beneath their feet cracks and...
Financial earnings in early 2021 turned out to be better than most were expecting. Ed Hyman—chairman and head of the economic research team for Evercore ISI—wrote in a note to clients, “There’s eviden...
While backtesting often gets ignored by beginner traders, it’s a very viable approach that can produce unexpected results when applied correctly. Of course, it’s not a magic wand that can automaticall...
Among different useful oscillators which traders can identify, RSI or Relative Strength Indicator is the most reliable and renowned momentum indicator. Day traders use it to gain profits during intra...
Every year, hundreds of Scrip dividends are issued by companies. Managers must make a relatively straightforward decision: take a cash dividend or take additional shares. It’s the duty of the manager ...
Voluntary corporate actions are often considered to be an inconsequential aspect of investment management. However, given the sheer amount of money that is lost to poorly handled corporate actions dec...
Investment brokers are typically solicited when clients need to buy or sell stocks, bonds, exchange traded funds (ETFs), mutual funds and the like. Brokers are licensed agents from investment companie...
In an earlier article I suggested that we can finally address the challenge of extremely long trade settlement times in the distressed loan market (T+66 is the current average) by applying three ...