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Post-Trade Forum

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.

Paul Taylor - Swift - London | 03/06/2013 | 815 views

Why do post trade STP projects fail?

Industrialisation of operational processes, improving settlement efficiency, focus on cost, STP – these are all common phrases or terms to indicate a plan to improve settlement rates, reduce failure and inherent cost, and of course to offer better client service. To judge how successful these are on an industry level is a big ask, but those ... Tags: Trade execution, Post-trade & ops

Paul Taylor - Swift - London | 10/05/2013 | 1610 views | 2 comments

Post Trade Services: why the buy side needs to commit

With the multitude of regulation being debated or approved for implementation, the financial sector must navigate myriad new rules. Post-trade operations, typically an area of activity driven by the sell side, though more recently also by larger buy side firms, are also challenged by the slate of new regulatory or market events, whether that be EMI... Tags: Trade execution, Post-trade & ops

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 15/08/2012 | 2752 views | 1 comment

Anti-money laundering - the final solution

Money laundering continues to be a scourge on financial services. Recent cases of some of biggest and most respected banks clearly demonstrate that as time goes by the risk of money laundering keeps increasing. Despite decades of measures and huge expenditure on anti-money laundering systems the figures show we are losing the battle. Indeed the siz... Tags: Risk & regulation, Post-trade & ops

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 14/08/2012 | 2077 views

Bringing greater efficiency to payments

The payments industry has been a sticking point in financial services for quite some time. Vested interests and a concentration of far too much business between too few banks have created development inertia, best evidenced by the SEPA slow train. SEPA was virtually a universal agreed development, if you take banks out of the equation. However, the...

Gary Wright - BISS Research - London | 17/07/2012 | 2715 views

Identity management the key to linking operations

Historically banks have built business and operations in silos, and over decades, despite numerous mergers and purchases creating the proverbial one stop shop, the typical bank still maintains a vertical business and operation model. This was not the plan but it’s the one that has been allowed to exist. Nowadays, the problems of banking silo... Tags: Payments, Risk & regulation