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Freddie McMahon

Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd

CHATBOTS UNDER-HYPE: THE NEW FRONTIER TO SIMPLIFY COMPLEX KNOWLEDGE PART 2

Just as a reminder, Complex Knowledge is any combination of regulatory, statutory, legal, tax, tariff, policy and procedure matter, which is primarily found within documents. USE CASE: HOUSEHOLDER PLANNING PERMISSION Setting the scene The understandings from this particular use case are universal in terms of Complex Knowledge. The initial sce...

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ESMA’s third-country venues - the naughty or nice list

ESMA recently issued guidance on the treatment of commodity derivatives traded on third-country venues in the context of the MiFID ll position limit regime. Prior to this is was not clear if commodity derivatives traded on a third-country exchange would be considered economically equivalent OTC (“EEOTC”) contracts and would consequently fall unde...

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Freddie McMahon

Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd

CHATBOTS UNDER-HYPE: THE NEW FRONTIER TO SIMPLIFY COMPLEX KNOWLEDGE PART 1

The Opportunity The simplification of Complex Knowledge is a paradigm shift opportunity for chatbots, with the potential to bring benefits to every person and every organisation on the planet. The Definition Complex Knowledge is any combination of regulatory, statutory, legal, tax, tariff, policy and procedure matter, which is primarily found w...

/ai /regulation Fintech innovation and startups

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Technology outlook for financial markets in 2018

2018 is around the corner, offering an opportunity to reflect on the previous year and look at the trends that are likely to shape the financial services sector in the coming year. Just like last year, in this article I offer five technology predictions for financial markets in 2018. 1) Cloud adoption. Cloud has been a prominent talking poi...

/regulation Trends in Financial Services

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Not a lot of people know that

Not a lot of people know that Commonly attributed to Sir Michael Caine, what a lot of people don't know is that it was actually said by someone else. “Not a lot of people know that” With MiFiD II just around the corner, inexplicably the phrase, ‘Not a lot of people know that’ came to mind. Commonly attributed to Sir Michael Caine, what a lot of peo...

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Pieces coming together

Derivatives market participants have been rightfully concerned about the potentially adverse impact of MiFID II on global trading. However, the US and EU authorities have taken significant steps in recent weeks to mitigate some of those concerns. The CFTC has issued an interpretative letter regarding the unbundling of research, something that is m...

/regulation /wholesale MiFID

Ivy Schmerken

Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems

Wrestling with OMS and EMS Decisions

Many asset managers are wrestling with the decision on whether to keep the order management system (OMS) and execution management system (EMS) as two separate best-of-breed systems, or switch to a single unified platform known as the OEMS. Buy-side firms have been demanding tighter integration between their order management and execution management...

/regulation Capital Markets Technology

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Top cybersecurity trends for 2018

The year 2017 saw unprecedented change in the world of cyber – the number and scale of attacks grew significantly, while in many cases governments, regulators, and financial services firms were perceived to be scrambling to catch up. In 2018, the momentum around cybersecurity will accelerate in a range of ways – below are Cordium’s top five cyber t...

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Transaction Laundering: What to Expect in 2018

2017 was the year that Transaction Laundering planted itself firmly in the consciousness of the minds of regulators, lawmakers, law enforcement and the general public. We believe that 2018 will be the year that we turn this awareness into action. Here’s why: E-commerce and Mobile Transactions Will Continue to Surge According to emarketer, worldw...

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Brian Collings

Brian Collings CEO at Torstone Technology Ltd

GDPR: Next stop in the 2018 compliance race

For those who believe that “go-live” is merely the beginning of the end of the compliance journey, next year will mark yet another milestone for major regulatory implementation. 2018 starts with the long-anticipated go-live of the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) on 3 January, followed four months later on 25 May, by t...

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