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Steve Wilcockson Product Marketing at Quantexa
Since 2009, banks have been scrutinized microscopically about their resilience to a wide range of risks. This is hardly surprising, given the post-Global Financial Crisis (GFC) realization of interconnectedness between systemic risk and the financial services industry, particularly so-called globally Systemically Important Financial Institutions (...
27 April 2016 /regulation /wholesale
David Donovan Executive Vice President at Publicis.Sapient
"This is Not War, This is Extinction” Optimus Prime – Transformers Age of Extinction There is a very high probability that you are viewing this article on your phone, tablet or other mobile device. Digital is now part of our daily life and some will say it has even made its way onto Maslow’s pyramid as a basic need! For financial services fir...
20 April 2016 /wholesale
Retired Member
A seemingly innocuous news item from my good friend John Detrixhe at Bloomberg got us all chatting here at Fidessa Towers this morning. The story was about how Eurex Clearing was going to allow large buy-sides direct membership of its derivatives clearing house. The rationale for this is entirely logical as today’s regulations treat client capit...
31 March 2016 /wholesale
As global transaction banking move to 2020, it is evident that many banks are still not clear on the path to take. Global transaction banks are matted in their present IT challenges and operational issues followed by demanding central banks regulatory requirements. Many global transactions banks are looking at their current complex IT landscape an...
21 March 2016 /wholesale
Ganesh Srinivasan Director at Volante Technologies
The results of the Accenture 2016 Compliance Risk Study (https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insight-compliance-risk-study-2016-financial-services#block-pivoting) raise some important points to consider to my mind. The two specific action points suggested by Accenture that I found of particular interest are: The improvement in resource utilization on...
21 March 2016 /regulation /wholesale
As we progress through 2016, the regulatory landscape is being shaped by many new or emerging initiatives. It is sometimes easy to forget that the initial start to all this was political, generally in reaction to the market crisis of the past. This summer sees a new date added to the regulatory calendar: 23 June 2016. This is the date that the UK ...
18 March 2016 /regulation /wholesale
There are many considerable challenges currently facing investment banks. Not least the tsunami of regulation (Basel 3, Dodd Frank, EMIR, MIFID I & II, FRTB, IFRS9, BCBS239, BCBS248, CRDIV, AIFMD, BSBC261, Leverage ratio etc), that have arrived since the financial crisis of 2007-2009, or that are due to be implemented over the next four years ...
14 March 2016 /regulation /wholesale
Graham Seel Principal Consultant at BankTech Consulting
Customers are changing their expectations of everyone. Especially banks. The Connected Customer wants banking services that integrate with their connected life. If banks struggle to understand, but if they don’t respond, they will lose customers by the millions. This is true of all segments but especially true with the fastest growing segment (mill...
08 March 2016 /retail /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
The other week we saw the Bank of Japan move to a tiering of negative interest rates against Japanese Yen (JNY) central bank deposits. In Japan the fear of negative returns in Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs) is beginning to drive funds elsewhere, however finding the same level of asset quality on bond investments as they would have against JGB’s a...
04 March 2016 /regulation /wholesale
Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions
I drafted this blog post four years ago after reading this article in Economic Times. Not wanting to sound alarmist, I decided to can it. I revisited the post many times since then and I stuck to my decision each time. Until I read this question on Quora a couple of days ago: Is there a situation in India like The Big Short movie as there are bi...
29 February 2016 /regulation /wholesale
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