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Laurent Jacquemin - SunGard - Paris | 16/05/2012 | 136 views

THE FUTURE OF POST-TRADE DERIVATIVES PROCESSING

This blog post originally appeared on FTF News. In the derivatives industry, significant, year-over-year transaction volume growth has become the norm. With high-frequency trading driving up the volumes of trades to hundreds of thousands or even millions per day, derivatives market participants must be able to manage these higher volumes. Moreover... Tags: STP, Wholesale banking

John Everhard - Pegasystems - Reading | 16/05/2012 | 172 views

Next Governor - Embrace Technology!

Speculation has been rife over who could be the next Governor of the Bank of England. Recently the Guardian gave us a glimpse of who the potential candidates could be. Any of the eight figures printed could easily become the most powerful and important official in the UK. With all their backgrounds steeped (rightly) in banking experience, the im... Tags: STP, Retail banking

Nicola Williamson - Onyx Group - Stockton Upon Tees | 16/05/2012 | 224 views

Data Backup Compliance

Andy MacLellan, Head of Cloud, Onyx Group How long does your data need to be backed up for? It’s a question most businesses take for granted, working on the assumption their IT department have taken care of things. In the real world, backups are the last job to sort out in a system deployment project and will typically involve using default... Tags: Security, Risk

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 16/05/2012 | 213 views

Brussels on trial

With the current state of the European economy and the massive problems facing the Euro the politicians in Brussels aided by the Governments of France and Germany stand accused of a dereliction of duty to the population of Europe and flagrant disregard of the risks of creating the Euro. How do they plead? Innocent or Guilty? The case against them ...

Kathleen Tyson-Quah - Granularity Ltd - London | 16/05/2012 | 332 views | 1 comment

Repo and OTC Derivatives as Financial Crisis Accelerators

Following links a few days ago led me to a fascinating journal article by Professor Mark Roe of Harvard Law School. He suggests that the preferential treatment of OTC derivatives and repo collateral transfers in advance of bankruptcy skews incentives to make the financial system much more leveraged and more risky than it would be otherwise. The t... Tags: ECNs & exchangesGroup: Post-Trade Forum