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Since the implementation Mifid1 in 2007, there has been a lot of talk about a pan-European consolidated tape, whether it would benefit the market, how it might operate and why it has not come about without regulatory pressure. Post 2007 when stocks when allowed to trade on multiple exchanges, market participants who wanted to see the full history a...
07 July 2020 /regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
Marketplaces are hip and trendy on the internet and will likely evolve even more in the near future. In some markets (like food delivery, transportation, commerce, holiday…) they already represent double digit market shares (e.g. in 2018 $1.86 trillion was spent globally on the top 100 online marketplaces), but for the financial services sector, ...
30 June 2020 /devops /markets Open Banking
Antonio Ferre IT Manager at Plastic Forte
Recently, the European Parliament has included the Functional Size concept (base for IT strategic information such as Productivy, Quality or PDR, in spite of low level development methods, tools, trends, ...) as Transversal Engineering Framework in the European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedo
25 June 2020 /people /markets IT Metrics
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
The world is facing an absolutely unprecedented crisis. The year 2020 started off with sad news of a major virus outbreak in China’s Hubei province. Home to over 58 million people, the region soon was surrounded by chaos and uncertainty while the unknown virus had already started spreading across the country. Shortly after the news broke out of Ch...
13 June 2020 /markets /covid-19
Kiran Komma Senior Domain Consultant at Tata Consutlancy Services
Investment banks continue to be under pressure due to regulatory changes, declining revenues, and rising costs. Revenues generated by 12 biggest investment banks from trading and advisory operations are down by 11% for first six months of 2019, according to Financial Times article. COVID-19 pandemic will impact investment banks due to significantl...
10 June 2020 /markets
Anna Monteiro Global Head of Business and Product Development at www.solutions-atlantic.com
Late 2018 into early 2019, there was increasing attention put on foreign direct investment in sensitive sectors by several major jurisdictions. At that time, the driver for this focus was a volatile political landscape stemming from the breakdown of trade between the US and China, as well as uncertainty of the US’ involvement in NATO and Russia’s ...
08 June 2020 /regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation
The economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic has cast a bright spotlight on the inefficiencies in the way many firms do business, forcing them to adopt new operating models to stay relevant, productive and, ultimately, afloat. Companies will always seek to minimise risks, especially in an ever-evolving environment of increased volatility, uncert...
08 June 2020 /markets /covid-19 Blockchain Observations
Richard Price, UK&I Sales Director, TIBCO Software More than ever before, banks need to stay relevant, as traditional financial services companies are competing with far nimbler challenger brands that are changing traditional service models and product mixes. We’ve seen this accelerate, as the world continues to be turned upside down by COVID-1...
05 June 2020 /regulation /markets Open Banking
Sassan Danesh Managing Partner at Etrading Software Ltd
Finance is very much a data business with financial firms critically dependent on good information. They need fast access to comprehensive data, which provides them with insight in order to provide services and compete effectively. As a result, firms have been making significant investments in new technologies to improve their analysis and store l...
02 June 2020 /regulation /markets Banking Regulations
Elliot Banks Chief Product Officer at BMLL
The European market moved from a passive state of tighter spreads, lower volumes and longer resting times during January and early February to a much more aggressive state in late February and March through April. As a result of COVID-19 and its immeasurable impact on the global economy, we have seen unprecedented levels of volatility and volumes i...
01 June 2020 /markets /covid-19 Fintech
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