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If any publicity is good publicity, the Dodd-Frank Act got a healthy shot in the arm from the two candidates for U.S. president during their first debate on Wednesday, with each contender discussing ...
Part 5 In order to monitor systemic risks as near to real-time as possible regulators have introduced the requirement for market participants to report all OTC derivatives trading activity to swap dat...
The European Parliament’s financial committee decided last week to rein in the velocity of high-frequency trading. The Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee’s unanimous vote paves the way for a half...
Part 4 Authors: Kersten Martin Meyer and Tom Riesack Collateral: banks, broker-dealers, funds and clearinghouses all need it more than ever. Collateralisation of bilateral as well as cleared OTC trade...
Each week seems to be worse than the last in terms of outages that are affecting leading B2C brands. Whether it's the banking industry, web service providers or retailers, the severity and impact of ...
After almost two years since the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) was put on the statute books, the first swap-related articles finally take effect on 12th October this year. Now everyone can be assured they are ...
FATCA is on everyone’s minds right now, with many financial institutions trying to figure out cost-effective and efficient ways to comply with this new IRS-driven regulation. However, it is important ...
In today’s connected world it is critical that all transactions are running as efficiently as possible, and for organisations such as banks, ensuring any cash and payment services are working at all t...
The case of data theft at Julius Baer is a stark reminder of the need to protect confidential information from being exploited by employees. On the whole, banks trust their employees. However once th...
I'm not, by nature, a suspicious man. But whenever I receive an unsolicited email from an institution with which I hold any kind of account, I resist the convenient temptation of clicking on the link ...
The world of Financial Services is at a serious crossroads. Whilst many in the Finance profession sniggered at the recent motivations and methods of the worldwide “Occupy Wall Street” movement – a de...
OTC Clearing: part 2 “[…] The financial crisis that began in 2007 had its origins precisely in over-complex regulation.” These are the wise words of Niall Ferguson, Professor of History at Harvard, sp...