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Margin strategy critical in CCP battle with clearing houses

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...

/regulation Financial Risk Management

Gaurav Handa

Gaurav Handa Director Marketing at Oracle Financial Services

The Road to Basel III: Navigating the Curves Ahead

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...

/regulation Financial Services Regulation

Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

Will the US be the last developed economy to go cashless?

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 ...

/payments /regulation Innovation in Financial Services

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Online Entrepreneurs the New Investment Banking

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...

/regulation Finance 2.0

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The Questions on Every Treasurer's Mind

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...

/security /regulation Innovation in Financial Services

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Credit and Profitability

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...

/regulation /retail

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The LEI as Counterparty Digital Fingerprint

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 ...

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Bill Would Remove Social Security Numbers

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...

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Researchers Say Identity Theft Has Lasting

Identity theft victims don’t need Jessica Van Vliet, an assistant professor in counseling psychology at the University of Alberta, to tell them that they no longer feel safe when conducting everyday financial transactions, which most of us take for granted. But she did a study highlighting a fact that many of us in the industry have already known:...

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Combating the growth of fraud in the UK

According to a recent report by the CIFAS, fraud in the UK is up by 10 percent. Reports like this continue to show evidence that putting more and stronger locks on the door to keep out criminals simply isn’t enough; fraudsters continue to gain access and capitalise on opportunities to defraud (among others) financial institutions and their custome...

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