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EMIR trade reporting: The race to comply

The media is awash with speculation on the preparedness (or indeed, lack of preparedness) of buyside firms for European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). With the EMIR trade repository authorisation deadline on the 7th of November looming, we’ve spoken to a number of our contacts at leading buyside firms to establish whether or not this is ...

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Dan Barnes

Dan Barnes Writer at Information Corporation

News analysis: There is no 'B' in 'P2P'

The news that US financial services firms are beginning to use peer-to-peer or person-to-person (P2P) platforms as a method of reaching borrowers is a bit concerning. More worrying is that P2P loans are being sold on and securitised. Q: What is P2P lending? A: P2P platforms typically bring together individual lenders to invest in loans to individua...

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Dan Barnes

Dan Barnes Writer at Information Corporation

The risk of outsourcing credit checks

A detail sprang out at me in the recent investigation into Mizuho Bank’s accidental funding of organised criminals in Japan. The bank funded loans via an associated firm, Orico, which acted as the lender, and had in turn outsourced the background checks it ran on customers. It turned out the background checks had not picked up on the criminality o...

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Chris DeBrusk

Chris DeBrusk Managing Director at Rule Financial

Worlds apart: The end of offshore development?

The migration of software development to low-cost offshore locations has, thus far, been a major trend in the 21st century. Prompted by the dual challenges of reducing costs whilst simultaneously adapting to a new regulatory landscape, many large financial firms opted to migrate development functions to offshore locations, predominantly in Mid and...

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Automation and the BoE objectives

Bank of England governor Mark Carney yesterday ordered a strategic review of how the central bank uses its resources. Carney’s aim is to realign the institution to meet its role in managing monetary policy, financial stability and the supervision of banks, and he has repeatedly stressed his desire to modernise the way the BoE operates. Meanwhile, ...

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Regulatory Change: Opportunity or Vexation?

My working week usually takes me to 2-3 different countries, and during the course of each day I am fortunate enough to meet with the senior business and technology leaders of Buy & Sell side firms in Europe and Scandinavia. A well discussed theme in the industry is the response to market reform. The need to respond to the ever changing regulat...

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Mexico e-invoicing means Account Payable validation for 2014

I was on the phone with two Fortune 500 companies yesterday to discuss Latin America electronic invoicing. And as I often am, was shocked that they had taken no steps toward implementing Mexico CFDI invoicing either on the outbound side nor on the inbound supplier side. In our conversations with the accounts payable team, the inbound Buyer side ...

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Richard Chapman

Richard Chapman Head of Strategy at SunGard

Is Complacency the Enemy of Reconciliation Efficiency?

To misquote a well-worn proverb, the road to inefficiency is paved with good intentions. This seems to be the case, at least, for many reconciliation teams, which are failing to follow up on their well-laid plans to optimize and capitalize on opportunities within their reconciliations inventory. Building an inventory of global reconciliation ac

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Time is of the essence

Last weekend heralded the official end of summertime as the EU put its clocks back one hour. Since most electronic clocks are updated automatically many of us hardly notice the difference, but others may be forgiven for waking up somewhat confused as to what time it really is. I guess that must have occurred to the legislators in Brussels when dis...

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Buyside collateral outsourcing: Running out of time?

I was at a buyside collateral conference a week or so ago (running a workshop), and asked the audience - mainly European asset managers and financial institutions - what their firm was doing about the upcoming regulations. Over half of the buyside firms plan to build solutions to meet their future collateral requirements, with only a third plannin...

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