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Beneficial ownership recently came to the fore once again with two high profile leaks – mostly recently the Bahamas leaks which saw the exposé of the names of directors and shareholders of nearly 176,000 shell companies trusts and foundations, an event that was preceded five months previously by the Panama Papers leaks which saw 11.5 million docum...
27 September 2016 /regulation /wholesale
In considering practical applications for Blockchain for banking processes, one of the specific areas that is in dire need of this type of technology is trade finance. Long reliant on complex banking correspondent relationships, the issuing and tracking of documentary letters of credit, and prone to the risks of delivery of payment and goods on a ...
19 September 2016 /wholesale Financial Supply Chain
Can you imagine the reaction of a bank employee if one morning he reads this headline? In the spring of 2010 I polled the students of the Master of Finance about how many of them would rather work for Google instead of a bank. Survey results: 5%. Last Friday I have made the same question for the current group. Survey results: 96%. Despite the effo...
19 September 2016 /wholesale
The recently unveiled plan of European Money Markets Institute (EMMI) to enhance the robustness and viability of Euro Overnight Index Average (EONIA), one of the major reference rates in European money markets, is a welcome reassurance to the investors and the global economic structures at large. The plan to strengthen and overhaul this critical b...
17 August 2016 /regulation /wholesale Financial Services Regulation
The recent slew of exchange announcements introducing new dark trading facilities in response to MiFID II would appear to suggest that the regulation has triggered a whole raft of innovations. But is that what’s really happening here? Euronext tells us it is planning to introduce a new liquidity discovery service building on its existing iceberg o...
15 August 2016 /wholesale
Banks must lower their services cost to at least 10% of their current cost. 3D printers cost $40,000 in 2007, $100 in 2016. Drones cost $100,000 in 2007, versus $100 in 2016. Knowing the sequence of the full human DNA used to cost $10 million in 2007 and in 2016 it only costs $100. All this has been achieved thanks to processes of exponential grow...
01 August 2016 /wholesale
Graham Seel Principal Consultant at BankTech Consulting
An Interview with Glenn Goldman of Credibly Recently I had the opportunity to pose a few questions to Glenn Goldman, CEO of alternate small business lender Credibly. I have used Credibly as an example of an alternative lender – this piece is not intended to endorse them or otherwise. However, by way of background, they have focused on providing lo...
29 July 2016 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
The one thing that there is no dearth of in the current world, is Data. Therein lies the boon as well as the bane. On one hand availability of large amounts of data would mean banks and financial institutions no longer need to make blackbox decisions. Strategic and operational activities are evidenced by supporting data which would mean the opport...
28 July 2016 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
Under MiFID II trading venues are required to provide one of two options in order to support members’ testing efforts (RTS 7, Article 10). So exchanges can choose to offer either a realistic testing environment or a testing symbol. As testing can be terribly complicated, different views and opinions about which is better are to be heard across the...
08 July 2016 /regulation /wholesale
In the following 5 years banks may lose 50% of their business. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say in 5 years banks will lose 50% of their business. I am pretty sure that the major banks handle this scenario. If not, why announce so insistently their strategy to shift to a digital transformation? In a low interest rate scenario, with low ma
04 July 2016 /wholesale
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