25 Results from 2017, /wholesale
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
Banks will profile corporate credit risk blending financial indicators with supply chain performance metrics. This point represents the hinge that will connect corporate supply chain process data with innovative credit risk models for banks: Banks will capture and analyze events in the physical supply chain to generate a more profound and realistic...
21 December 2017 /wholesale Financial Supply Chain
Retired Member
Derivatives market participants have been rightfully concerned about the potentially adverse impact of MiFID II on global trading. However, the US and EU authorities have taken significant steps in recent weeks to mitigate some of those concerns. The CFTC has issued an interpretative letter regarding the unbundling of research, something that is m...
20 December 2017 /regulation /wholesale MiFID
Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services
Unicredit gave a "Capital Markets Day" in London on 12/12/17 and what an upbeat event it was, accompanied by a slidedeck full of green ticks and words like "signed" and "completed", whatever those words actually mean, and probably a lot less than they were meant to signify. What was shocking, though, was the way Non-P...
14 December 2017 /wholesale Financial Services Regulation
We have published a research paper - you can find it in the section "Research Papers and Training Agendas" on our website - about Unicredit's "recapitalisation". It focuses on: the rights issue for €13.0 billion launched in Q1 2017 to fund the bank's Strategic Plan the charges and provisions taken by the bank in Q4 2016, which ...
10 December 2017 /wholesale Trends in Financial Services
Hopefully for those of us in financial services MiFID II is now pretty much part of the furniture, and whilst it is causing turmoil and deep discomfort, the reality, is that it is here to stay and there is no going back. Ever. The reason I said ‘hopefully’ is that I have heard some horror stories about CEOs of a few buy side firms who are only just...
08 December 2017 /regulation /wholesale MiFID
Yesterday ESMA published the long outstanding reference data for equities and bonds. Captains of the industry might worry little about abbreviations such as LIS, SMS, ADT, AVT or ADNT. But the engineers below deck understand perfectly well that these are the crucial coordinates to keep the ship on course. The reference data allows you to work out ...
07 December 2017 /regulation /wholesale MiFID
The third quarter was pretty good for the US markets as we saw all-time highs being made. However, this also meant that big investment managers and companies made little changes to their portfolio. They held their stocks to ensure the maximum returns on investment. The Berkshire Hathaway team, made some changes to portfolio. Apart, from the Bank o...
23 November 2017 /wholesale Personal Finance
Nobody ever said it would be easy 2017 has seen the rules change, the financial services sector will never be the same again. Competition is rife, regulation is overwhelming, and customer attitudes are fickle, emerging technologies are now presenting incredible opportunities and if you’re willing to step outside your comfort zone then the benefits ...
21 November 2017 /wholesale Capital Markets Technology
In its consultation for changing RTS 1, published yesterday, ESMA suggests that the tick size regime should also be extended to Systematic Internalisers. I don’t want to discuss whether it is a sensible proposal. Nor do I want to debate whether ESMA can use a Level 2 text to override the explicit statement in MiFID II (Article 18 and 39). MiFID I...
10 November 2017 /regulation /wholesale MiFID
Sufyan Khan Head of Pre Sales / Solution Consulting - Europe at Oracle
The objective of developing a Common Reporting Standard (CRS) is to combat tax evasion. Common Reporting Standard (CSR) is the tax reporting framework developed by Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that requires Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) between tax authorities in participating countries for inter-jurisdic...
01 November 2017 /regulation /wholesale Transaction Banking
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