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Gary Wright

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

HFT a force for good or evil

It seems to me that the Industry is split between the benefits or not, of high frequency trading (HFT) and it’s a polarisation which is so concerning that Sir John Beddington, UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser, has launched his report on the Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets. Everyone appears to have an opinion, but very few of ...

/regulation EBAday

Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

10 Ways To Protect Kids Online

Children engage in online shopping, social media, mobile web, and computers just like adults do. Many parents feel a bit overwhelmed by technology and often throw their hands in the air and give up. Unfortunately, that’s not an option. It is essential that parents educate themselves on safe, secure online practices in order to set a positive examp...

/security /regulation

Gary Wright

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

Can you really test ethical behaviour?

I have never known ethics to be talked about so much as in the last year or two and we all know why. However, I was intrigued the other day when the Chartered Institute of Investment Services (CISI) (of which I am a founder member having been grandfathered in through my Stock Exchange membership) sent me an email stating that from next year all me...

/regulation /wholesale MiFID

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Know your network to avoid DoS attacks

Last week another one of the high streets leading banks admitted to suffering from a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. Whilst customer data was said to not be affected, it did cause a huge inconvenience for customers trying to access banking services online. Unfortunately this is not the first issue the banking sector has had this year. DoS attacks l...

/regulation

Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Be Proactive During Cyber Security Awareness Month

We use the web to search, shop and to connect with friends and family. And in the process criminals are trying steal from us. It used to be that a person only had to know not to open a file in an attachment from someone they didn’t know. Today there are more ways than ever that your PC can be hijacked. Today you can simply visit a website thinking ...

/security /regulation

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Bilateral margin requirements: a liquidity vortex?

$30,000,000,000,000 - This huge figure is the estimated additional liquidity financial institutions worldwide will need if the current proposal by the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) on margin requirements for non-centrally-cleared derivatives were to be implemented....

/regulation

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FATCA solved with spreadsheets: Regulatory Class A offence?

The FATCA introduction date (1st January 2013) is looming large and focusing the attention of financial institutions on what needs to be done. From my conversations with several financial institutions over the last few weeks, it’s clear that they are busy analysing the IGA or ‘full-fat’ FATCA agreements (depending on their location) and trying to ...

/regulation /wholesale Data Management 101

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How Fraud Systems Should Interact With Your Customers

It is no surprise to hear card fraud continues to rise in every country around the globe, according to the survey published by ACI. With the never-ending fraudulent assault on your customers, how do you keep them happy? As the ACI report states, fraud isn’t just about the financial loss to the bank, it’s more than that; it actually undermines the ...

/regulation /retail

Gary Wright

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

Ratings gone quiet or the lull before the calm

Since LIBOR broke into media frenzy territory the noise around ratings has gone pretty quiet. Although we have seen the appointment of Kevin Milne one of the City’s best assets by RVS the Singaporean headquartered Rate Validation Services benchmarking company and we have had Martin Wheatley the UKs regulatory great hope, if not quite yet saviour, ...

/regulation MiFID

Gary Wright

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

Getting to grips with Rogue Traders

At a City forum yesterday a representative from the FSA presented the seventeen definitions behind the operational risk management principles, which financial services firms are expected to practice to prevent rogue trading and other fraudulent activities. I could not help noticing that the word ‘limit’ was used frugally. It was in fact only used o...

/regulation MiFID

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