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Retired Member
I hear that some dealers are suggesting that they will not become members of CCPs which are not deemed to be robust. This brings some interesting questions to the table. A good start is that dealers have long traded OTC derivatives with non-robust counterparties so why are they concerned now? They took in good collateral, good margin and risk cove...
08 August 2011 /regulation /wholesale
Gold is heading north again this morning. As the dollar weakens and there is a flight to safe-haven “hard” assets, gold has broken through the USD 1,700/oz barrier and continues to rise. Last week precious metals ETFs saw major capital inflows with the biggest – the SPDR Gold Trust – attracting $1.2 bn last week (and $3.7 of inflows over the las...
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
I took part in a webcast a couple of weeks ago looking at how to best use social media channels at large events, such as Sibos (coming up next month, folks!) Cognito Analytics, which sponsored the webcast, organised the panel which included, Jennifer Maitland marketing operations manager at Caplin, Peter Vander Auwera, innovation leader at Swift an...
02 August 2011 /sibos /wholesale Social Banks
Finextra has written before about social media guidlines issued by US regulatory body, Finra - and all its scary Tweet-retention rules. Allen Schoenberg of the CME (@allanschoenberg) re-Tweeted an interesting slide show from Glen Gilmore, adjunct professor of digital marketing & social media law called 'Finra's 10 Commandments of Social Media...
28 July 2011 /regulation /wholesale Social Banks
Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions
The jury's out – well, not even selected - on this latest one but, at 1:1, the verdicts on the two previous lawsuits around EFT and ACH frauds in the USA are matched evenly between corporates and banks. It seems fair to find in favor of corporates where banks haven't complied with FFIEC and other well-established security guidelines. Issued over fi...
21 July 2011 /payments /wholesale
You be hard pressed to attend any financial services-themed event this year with hearing a range of presentation explaining, warning, commenting on the end of ‘light touch’ regulation. You can argue all you want about the so-called politically motivated move to ease access to credit and mortgages to people who may not have been best placed to han
08 July 2011 /regulation /wholesale
The coming couple of years are going to be an interesting time for participants in the commodity markets as a “perfect storm” of regulation will hit them, above and beyond most of the other asset classes. In the US Dodd-Frank contains some significant requirements and in Europe a waterfall of regulation – EMIR, MAD, CRD, REMIT, MiFID2 and the Tra...
05 July 2011 /regulation /wholesale
So why on earth should I be rambling on about commodities on a FinTech web site? Well I believe that commodity market are a core asset class now for our leading banks and will become increasingly so over the coming years: Morgan Stanley recently put up a list of its competitive strengths at a banking conference, commodities was at the top of the...
01 July 2011 /regulation /wholesale
Vaughan Williams’ choral work ‘Towards the Unknown Region’ is a dramatic setting of a Walt Whitman poem, describing the uncertainty of life, the soul being led to an unknown place with no maps or guides or paths. As the recent report ‘The Changing Face of Payments’ shows, the infrastructure of payments is heading towards an unknown region. There...
29 June 2011 /payments /wholesale
Craig Ramsey Head of Real-Time Payments at ACI Worldwide
All banks benefit from improvements to the payment market’s efficiency. This is where experienced software professionals can help the payments community achieve more in less time, particularly in complex global markets. Software partners are in a position to help deliver innovative services with their available proven solutions and tools. When a b...
20 June 2011 /payments /wholesale EBAday
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