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Energy traders get ready for Remit

Stuart Clark, CEO of Impendium, discusses the wave of new regulations soon to impact the energy market.

03 December 2013

UK and Ireland to move to T+2 settlement

The UK and Irish capital markets are to move to a shortened T+2 securities settlement timeframe with effect from October 2014.

02 December 2013

News/Post-trade & ops

Hong Kong brokers tap Markit to meet new e-trading and algo rules

A collection of Hong Kong-licensed brokers have enlisted Markit to help them comply with new electronic trading rules on the island.

29 November 2013

News/Post-trade & ops

Noll quits Nasdaq OMX for ConvergEx

Nasdaq transaction services lead Eric Noll has quit the US exchange to join capital markets brokerage and tech house ConvergEx Group as president.

26 November 2013

News/Post-trade & ops

Live Blog: Swift Nordics Regional Conference 2013

Compliance and beyond: navigating challenges and exploring opportunities in the Nordic financial landscape

21 November 2013

News/Post-trade & ops

CME Group says ClearPort was hacked in July

Exchange operator CME Group says that its ClearPort clearing system was hacked in July, compromising customer information.

18 November 2013

News/Post-trade & ops

EU-backed social media sentiment project releases market surveillance tool

Project First, the European Union-backed research effort to find a way of extracting and analysing financial services-related sentiment from social media networks, has concluded with the launch of a prototype market surveillance system.

13 November 2013

News/Post-trade & ops

Finextra partners Level39/Innotribe for Future Money innovation conference

Finextra and Level39, in association with Innotribe, are to host a two-day conference exploring the new wave of innovation sweeping across the financial services sector.

12 November 2013

News/Post-trade & ops

Risk IT spending continues upwards trend - Chartis

In 2014, financial institutions globally will invest $28.1bn in risk IT; rising 13% by 2015 to $31.8bn, according to research from Chartis.

08 November 2013

News/Post-trade & ops

MillenniumIT signs Singapore Stock Exchange as first post-trade technology customer

The Singapore Stock Exchange is to be the first customer for Millennium PostTrade, a new multi-asset clearing, settlement, risk and CSD technology platform from the London Stock Exchange's technology arm.

07 November 2013

News/Post-trade & ops

DTCC opens Singapore trade repository

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has received approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to operate a global trade repository (GTR) for OTC reporting and has begun processing its first trades.

06 November 2013

Finextra TV/Post-trade & ops

Impact on derivatives in AsiaPac

There has been a lot of talk about regulations impacting derivatives in Europe and the US. Stuart Clark, MD at Impendium, discusses the effect regulations will have on the market in Asia Pacific.

06 November 2013

News/Post-trade & ops

Deutsche Bourse IT reshuffle continues as Keller named CIO

The ongoing restructuring of IT responsibilities at Deutsche Börse continues as the German exchange names Swiss-born IT engineer Rene Keller from Information Mosaic as its new Chief Information Officer.

29 October 2013

Finextra TV/Post-trade & ops

Improving transparency in the derivatives market

Stuart Clark, product development director at Impendium Systems, discusses the Emir roll-out timetable, the implications of Esma's directives and how to manage the sheer volume of data flowing through organisations.

25 October 2013

News/Post-trade & ops

Europe nears agreement on HFT rules

The European Parliament has hammered out a preliminary deal with EU member states on how to regulate high-frequency trading.

23 October 2013

Finextra TV/Post-trade & ops

Mobile complexity and regulatory compliance

Steve Haworth, CEO at TeleWare, discusses the added complexity mobile devices bring to complying with global regulations and directives such as Dodd-Frank and Mifid.

21 October 2013

Finextra TV/Post-trade & ops

The Italian NFC experiment

Massimo Arrighetti, CEO, SIA, discusses the results of SIA's recent mobile payments pilot, issues with NFC and retailers, Sepa and T2S.

18 October 2013

Finextra TV/Post-trade & ops

Swift's Nordics Conference set for Stockholm

Erica Åhman, head of Swift Nordics offers highlights for the upcoming Nordics Regional Conference in Stockholm this November.

14 October 2013

News/Post-trade & ops

Deutsche Börse CTO and Clearstream CIO Baguet quits

Yves Baguet is quitting his roles as Deutsche Börse chief technology officer and Clearstream CIO, and will be replaced by company man Richard Green.

11 October 2013

Finextra TV/Post-trade & ops

The current state of corporate actions

Andrew White, general manager of securities services, ASX, Philippe Ruault, head of products clearing, settlement, custody, trade and market services. BNP Paribas Securities Services and Hervé Valentin, head of securities markets in the marketing division of Swift look at collaboration, commoditisation and the current state of corporate actions processing.

10 October 2013