4169 Results from /regulation
Retired Member
One of the intriguing notions in the run up to the Vickers report publication has been the “height” of the ring-fence. And indeed, what that even means. Well now we know. The ICB’s test for deciding the height of the fence is that a ring-fenced bank is “not dependent for its solvency, liquidity or continued operations on the rest of the group”. ...
12 September 2011 /regulation /wholesale
Futurama’s Bender came to Earth with a dream: Kill all humans. Robots over the next decade may have a more pleasant goal: Make money for humans. A natural corollary to this trend will be a sharp drop in the number of human traders, according to a working paper released by the United Kingdom’s Government Office for Science. “The Future of Computer T...
09 September 2011 /regulation
Bipin Patel: FT letter to the editor 4 Jul 2011 To see the original article on Financial Time's website click here (you may need to be registered to gain full access). Margin strategy critical in CCP battle with clearing houses From Mr Bipin Patel. Sir, Having read the article "Clearing houses' tactics trigger concern" (June 29), it is i...
03 September 2011 /regulation Financial Risk Management
Gaurav Handa Director Marketing at Oracle Financial Services
Financial institutions in Europe and North America will be eager to turn the page on August. Far from the anticipated doldrums of summer, we witnessed a return to stomach-churning market volatility, fueled in part by growing concerns about sovereign solvency and banks’ exposure to sovereign debt. The return to volatility, coming on the heels of t...
02 September 2011 /regulation Financial Services Regulation
Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
Although it is a long-time off yet, we can now envisage a time when most of the developed world, and indeed most of the developing world will no longer deal in hard currency. There are a number of drivers for this: 1. Impact of mobile payments 2. Tighter money laundering requirements, and 3. Cost of physical handling versus electronic transactions ...
02 September 2011 /payments /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
The Dilemma Last week a talented 22-year old finance/law student I mentor recently faced a dilemma between joining a “bulge-bracket” Investment Bank and following his online dreams. Several of his University colleagues and recruitment specialists I subsequently spoke with confirmed that this daunting career cross-road had quietly become commonpla...
01 September 2011 /regulation Finance 2.0
Every corporate treasurer is undoubtedly faced (on a daily basis) with the following questions: Where in the world is my cash and what currency is it in? Can I mobilize it? Do I invest or borrow? At the end of the day, was I right and how should I protect myself from tomorrow’s risks? Why are these questions on the minds of Treasurers? Because ma...
31 August 2011 /security /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
When thinking of the root causes of the recent financial crisis, clearly the unsustainable path of credit creation stands out as the central problem plaguing the financial sector. Due to the taming of inflation post-1982 and a secular decline of interest rates accelerated by changed aggregate savings processes in emerging economies, the price of c...
30 August 2011 /regulation /retail
Ever wish you could check your counterparty for ID at the door? A Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) could be a lot like that. Each LEI would be part of a worldwide information system for helping capital markets firms track their counterparties and manage their risk, as I mentioned in May. But what goes on the ID? Who can see it? And whom do we trust ...
30 August 2011 /regulation
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
The most basic advice for protecting your own identity is to protect your Social Security number. The obvious solution is simply never to disclose your number, but this is silly, since, depending on your age, you have probably provided it to hundreds of people, on hundreds of forms. It now sits in hundreds of databases, accessible to thousands, an...
26 August 2011 /security /regulation
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