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EMV: Let the planning begin

There’s no way around it – EMV transition planning will be complicated. However, while EMV is a complex specification, the good news is that it can grow over time. Thus the key is to implement an infrastructure that lets you start with a simple, single portfolio that can expand and mature with you. Looking forward, the goal is to do it once, do it...

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Gary Wright

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

Outsourcing Collateral Management the Systemic Risk Question

Outsourcing collateral management appears to be an odd thing to do. Why would financial institutions outsource such a fundamental part of their operations? Bank of New York Mellon is the largest supplier of outsourced collateral management in the world and has trillions of dollars a day under its management control. It would not be going too far t...

/regulation Post-Trade Forum

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Limit Up-Limit Down v. Circuit Breakers

Back-and-forth, side-to-side. The “limit up-limit down” measure of preventing another Flash Crash is down one minute and back up the next. It seems to be back up at the moment, after financial services leaders and regulators met at a Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) conference last week. A U.S. Securities and Exchange ...

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Gary Wright

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

Risks in Systems and Standards

The UBS rogue trader has once again brought risk to the forefront of banks thinking. No doubt the usual hand wringing, system reviews and updates will be the response to the anticipated regulatory crack down. Banks around the world will be undertaking risk reviews and analysing their own operational processes and practices and as with many times p...

/regulation Post-Trade Forum

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A Windy Road Lies Ahead as Scandal Prompts New Rules

What a difference US$2.3 billion makes. The CEO of UBS could have been enjoying the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix this weekend. Instead, Oswald Grübel, the chief executive of a sponsor for racing’s highest class, met in the city-state on Tuesday with his bank’s largest shareholder. Sure, a UBS board meeting was already scheduled in Singapore for...

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Getting liquidity risk management just right

When it comes to liquidity risk management, financial institutions suffer from the Goldilocks syndrome. In the fairy tale, Goldilocks first tasted a bowl of porridge that was too hot, then she tasted a bowl that was too cold and finally she found a third bowl that was just right. It is the same with the balance of liquidity for financial institut...

/regulation /sibos

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Popping the fraud balloon

Fraud is much like a balloon – if you squeeze one end (through new tools, policies, strategies), the pressure builds and “balloons” out elsewhere. For banks it means fraud moves to another channel, payment type, pattern, or maybe even hopefully to another institution, such as online fraud, account takeover or identity theft. Criminals test for the...

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Gaurav Handa

Gaurav Handa Director Marketing at Oracle Financial Services

Getting a Grip on Big Data in Financial Services

As we start off the week at SIBOS, big data is a big focus. This year, a deep dive into big data is taken during an Innotribe session at the conference, part of a larger initiative to enable collaboration in financial services. As such, it seems fitting to share our thoughts on the subject here. Systemic risk was at the heart of the financial cr...

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Why EMV?

Why does the world care about EMV? The first, second and third reason is about stemming fraud losses. While there are some reduced operational costs via the decrease and automation of customer disputes, these are relatively minimal. People also point to the exciting potential of new, value-added products such as loyalty schemes, online banking two...

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Up and Down Week for High-Frequency Trading

The reputation of high-frequency trading (HFT) seemed to swing as erratically last week as stock prices did last month. A survey found most traders wary of HFT; but some on Wall Street stood up for it; but the European Union. still wants to tame the technology. First Down ... Large scale dark pool operator Liquidnet polled of more than 300 global c...

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