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NSD begins electronic matching of OTC derivatives trades

National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, has started applying the electronic matching procedure for all counterparties' potential counter clearing and settlement instructions for OTC securities trades (starting as of 21 December 2015).

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ECB goes back to drawing board to draft new T2S timetable

The European Central Bank has once again revised the timetable for central securities depositories migrating to the harmonised clearing and settlement platform T2S in the wake of hold ups at the bloc's two largest groups Euroclear and Clearstream.

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The holy grail of great service AND great value

Anthony Thomson, Founder, Atom Bank and Metro Bank, and NED of Agiliti, at “Banking on the Future”, a seminar produced by Fiserv, Innovate Finance and techUK, talks about how digital can enable the cost-effective provision of outstanding products and services to customers, the fact that new entrants such as challenger and shadow banks are changing the market in a way that incumbents must follow, and how the threat to established banks is not challengers per se but the rapid business model evolution being driven by digitalisation.

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The big data advantage for digital challengers

Ricky Knox Co-Founder, Tandem, and Managing Partner, Hexagon Partners, at “Banking on the Future”, a seminar produced by Fiserv, Innovate Finance and techUK, discusses how traditional banks’ digital transformation is impeded by legacy systems, legacy profits and the difficulty of accessing and aggregating their data - and how digital challengers will exploit big data technologies to make their services more widely available while at the same time more closely identifying their ideal customers.

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Turning off the liquidity tap

Lee Fulmer, Market Commentator, discusses progress with intraday liquidity management, exploring how banks need to understand not just whether they have enough liquidity but how to control the flow of that liquidity in a crisis situation.

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Filling the gaps in financial crime compliance

Matthew Long, Financial Crime and GRC Management Global Solution Lead, Oracle and Michael Davison, Industry Principal, Financial Services, Atos, discuss the growing challenge for banks of meeting their financial crime and compliance obligations – such as the requirements of the 4th AML Directive - and explore the industry’s response, including efforts to achieve a holistic view of risks by centralising investigation management operations, the focus on better utilising big data and analytics for compliance, and the increasing relevance of hosted solutions to ensure players of all sizes and complexity can comply in a cost efficient way.

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FCA fines Threadneedle Asset Management Limited £6m

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Threadneedle Asset Management Limited (TAML) £6,038,504 for failing to put in place adequate controls in the fixed income area of its front office, and for providing inaccurate information to the regulator and for failing to correct the inaccurate representation for four months.

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SunTrust Robinson Humphrey implements Fenergo platform

Fenergo, the leading provider of Client Lifecycle Management solutions for investment, corporate and private banks, has today announced that SunTrust Robinson Humphrey has successfully implemented Fenergo’s award-winning solutions to streamline its regulatory onboarding, entity data and client lifecycle management processes.

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SETL commences fundraising; appoints former BofE exec Sir David Walker as chairman

Sir David Walker, a former executive director of the Bank of England, joins the ranks of financial luminaries clambering aboard the blockchain bandwagon by joining cryptographic payments and settlement infrastructure startup SETL as chairman.

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What’s the impact of MiFID II?

At Deutsche Börse’s third London MiFID II workshop, Rory McLaren, Product Development MiFID II Transaction Reporting, Deutsche Börse Group, outlines the market requirements, and Axel Schorn, Programme Manager Regulatory Reporting, Deutsche Börse Group, alongside representatives from Credit Suisse, and Nomura International plc, discuss the challenges the financial services industry faces with this new MiFID II regulation.

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Omgeo and SimCorp hail first live automated repo matching process

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)’s Omgeosubsidiary, the global standard for institutional post-trade efficiency, and Simcorp, the leading provider of investment management solutions and services, today announced that the first live repurchase agreement (repo) trade has been automatically processed in SimCorp Dimension and Omgeo Central Trade ManagerSM (Omgeo CTM) between Kammarkollegiet and Nordea Bank.

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Asic releases rules governing central clearing in OTC derivatives

ASIC has today released rules implementing Australia's mandatory central clearing regime for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives of financial institutions – the ASIC Derivative Transaction Rules (Clearing) 2015 (derivative transaction rules (clearing)) and explanatory statement.

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On-boarding is a competitive differentiator

Steve Pulley, Global Managing Director, Client On-boarding & KYC Solutions, Thomson Reuters, outlines the changes in KYC for banks and investment managers this year, and the focus that they should have in their due diligence processes in 2016.

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Watson Wheatley signs new clients for reconciliation services

Watson Wheatley Financial Systems (WWFS), specialists in securities reconciliation, can announce the signing of three new clients in Q4 2015.

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Borsa Istanbul goes live on Nasdaq technologies

Borsa Istanbul and Nasdaq have announced that Borsa Istanbul has officially gone live on nine of Nasdaq's market-leading technologies including trading and clearing, settlement, market data management, index calculation, market surveillance, business intelligence, and pre- and post-trade risk management.

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SS&C gets SEC approval for SSCNet

SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:SSNC), a global provider of financial services software and software-enabled services, today announced it has received approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to bring its disruptive cloud-based, post-trade matching service, SSCNet to the U.S. market.

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Regulatory pressure expected to intensify - Broadridge survey

Nearly two-thirds of equity analysts (61 percent) who cover global capital markets institutions expect regulatory pressures on banks to intensify further through 2020, with potential new capital rules, informally known as “Basel IV,” likely to have the greatest effect on their operations, according to a global survey of nearly 150 buy-side and sell-side analysts.

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Standard Chartered selects Accuity and Fircosoft for global sanctions screening

Accuity, the leading global provider of Risk and Compliance, Payments and Know Your Customer solutions and FircoSoft, the leading global provider of watch list filtering solutions, have been selected by Standard Chartered Bank to provide integrated global sanctions screening and data.

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Back office intelligence moves to the mobile with eg

A new mobile application providing real time alerts and management information to operational managers on the move, as well as managing the activities of mobile workers, has been launched by eg solutions, the pioneer of the back office workforce optimisation software market.

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Murex rolls out enterprise platform for SA-CCR

Murex, the leading provider of Trading, Risk management and Processing solutions, announces a packaged solution for the Standard Approach for Counterparty Credit Risk (SA-CCR) under Basel III.