John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd
There have been calls this month from the European Union for the creation of a pan-European regulatory body to help solve the current financial crisis and prevent future issues. This is a deceptively easy thing to call for in the current climate, but it neither makes it easy to implement, nor indeed is there much evidence that it would be any more...
06 March 2009 /regulation /wholesale Trends in Financial Services
Retired Member
Data breaches are becoming all too common -- so common and so large in scale that we are rapidly becoming desensitized to the news. But the effect of a data breach has the potential to crush companies. From the direct financial loss, to protecting consumers whose information has been compromised, to dealing with civil legal issues and penalties an...
05 March 2009 /security /regulation Information Security
Do you watch House, the US medical drama series? In it, the team, ably led by the wonderfully acerbic Hugh Laurie as the eponymous head doctor in the Department of Diagnostic Medicine, solve puzzling medical cases through a range of medical tests, brainstorms and lateral thinking. We need an equivalent person, and department, to help us get out o...
05 March 2009 /regulation /retail Trends in Financial Services
We’ve heard much about how bankers have been rewarded too much for doing too little. And we’ve mainly heard it from politicians. So, now I’m going to give the bankers a break. As long as I can remember in politics (and that’s a long time), there have been allegations levelled – and fairly regularly proven - against politicians abusing their status....
04 March 2009 /regulation /wholesale Trends in Financial Services
Gert Raeves Research Director at Adox Research Limited
Wouldn't it be nice to have everyone speak the same language? Definitely no political motive - move right along - nothing to see here. Just trying to make sure we agree a common phrasebook. Simply giving the people access to markets in open and transparent way, and make it easy to use new shiny order management tools to route deal flow to the mos...
03 March 2009 /regulation Data Management 101
A recent Tabb report ‘The Enterprise Spreadsheet: Pushing towards Transparency’ highlights how firms continue to rely on spreadsheets at every level - serving as the modelling laboratory, negotiation tool, trade capture software, books and records, and as an input into almost every post-trade process. This is not a new problem, but you would thi...
When did Banks get too Big? Banks used to be small. Then that all changed. Banks bought each other. Banks got bigger and fewer. The only real kind of bank was one that was global, and carried out every kind of financial transaction you could imagine. The model where a plethora of smaller banks that specialised on core competences was swept away in ...
03 March 2009 /regulation Trends in Financial Services
Interesting comment reported on the BBC website this morning. Gary Hoffman is quoted as saying (about the resumption of lending): "We can now return to what we do well - mortgage lending." Correct me if I'm wrong, but it was their mortgage lending policies and practices that got them into the mess in the first instance. By what yardstic...
03 March 2009 /regulation /retail Trends in Financial Services
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
What many are beginning to realize, and few have known for a long time, there is a battle going on 24/7/365 between the good guys and the bad guys. Now, President Obama has chimed in with a directive to review the nations cyber security as it relates to security and our critical infrastructures. The situation isnt getting better, its getting worse...
02 March 2009 /security /regulation
There's a certain nostalgia about connecting with old Friends. It brings us back to a simpler, simple minded way. We forget for a moment our daily tasks and deadlines. We flirt with a time that was about virility, irresponsibility and youth. The community at hand is carefree and so happy to let you know they just made a tuna sandwich. Facebook is ...
27 February 2009 /security /regulation
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