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Who wins Central Matching or local?

With settlement cycles shortening in Europe and in the USA, there is quite a debate going on in the market as to the best form of post-trade matching. Financial Services firms on both buy and sell-sid...

30 Oct 2012
EBAday
Robert Siciliano

Cybersecurity Matters in The Election

The term “cyberattack” or cyberwarfare is defined as “politically motivated hacking to conduct sabotage and espionage. It is a form of information warfare sometimes seen as analogous to conventional ...

30 Oct 2012
Robert Siciliano

Your Rights To Online Privacy

“Americans have always cherished our privacy. From the birth of our republic, we assured ourselves protection against unlawful intrusion into our homes and our personal papers. At the same time, we se...

30 Oct 2012
A Finextra Member

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 Scie...

29 Oct 2012
EBAday
Robert Siciliano

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. U...

28 Oct 2012
A Finextra Member

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) (...

24 Oct 2012
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...

24 Oct 2012
Robert Siciliano

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 atta...

24 Oct 2012
A Finextra Member

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 Commissi...

23 Oct 2012
A Finextra Member

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...

22 Oct 2012
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 y...

18 Oct 2012
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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 ...

18 Oct 2012
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