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How many ways to connect to T2S?

If I remember correctly, the ECB said that major market participants had asked for a third option for connecting to T2S - linking directly into the ECB's core network. Taking that major market participants probably account for 80% of volume, that would leave around 20% of all T2S messages being divided between all of the remaining market particip...

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5 tips for building a successful internal social network

Last week, I had a very interesting catch-up with NixonMcInnes friend, Tony Stewart (@tonycomms). Tony is an internal communications executive at Aviva Investors and he agreed to talk us through his social business journey. Key to Aviva investor’s internal comms social initiative has been the introduction of Yammer* to help their global teams con...

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Gary Wright

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

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) (of which I am a founder member having been grandfathered in through my Stock Exchange membership) sent me an email stating that from next year all me...

/regulation /wholesale 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 for customers trying to access banking services online. Unfortunately this is not the first issue the banking sector has had this year. DoS attacks l...

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

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 attachment from someone they didn’t know. Today there are more ways than ever that your PC can be hijacked. Today you can simply visit a website thinking ...

/security /regulation

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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 Commissions (IOSCO) and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) on margin requirements for non-centrally-cleared derivatives were to be implemented....

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Gary Wright

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

Social media within financial services

The explosion in members of social media sites shows no sign of slowing down and with Twitter now well established and introducing further expansion, the time may soon be with us when all the world’s population will be connected. There is of course quite a moral argument about privacy and the risks that multilateral connectivity can bring, not lea...

/payments EBAday

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The middle way - new FSA complaints regulations

The FSA’s plans to tighten customer complaint procedures for retail banks have been in the offing for a long time, and are certainly welcomed by the industry. Within such a competitive industry, these proposed changes to the guidelines have levelled the playing field, forcing retail bank managers across the industry to try to resolve all complaint...

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Are Card Issuers planning for Interchange Fee Revenue Loss?

I’ve said before that MasterCard’s final appeal of the EC’s December 2007 negative decision promises to be a major crossroads for the Card Industry and may have far reaching consequences. Ok, so it seems to take forever for these cases to be heard, but the clock is ticking and if the worst should happen, well, how are you going to make up a shortfa...

/payments

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CEO for Higher

Date Posted: 20 Oct 2017 Job Reference: G3RR-7TT Company: Nerdom Retail Bank Position Title: Chief Executive Officer Reports to: Board of Directors Reporting to this position: Chief Experience Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Risk Officer, Chief People Officer, Chie...

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