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Barry Kislingbury Lead Solutions Consultant at ACI Worldwide
February is the time for many of us to visit SWIFT for the annual Partner meeting. It was nice to see some new faces this year and it’s also a great opportunity to catch up and discuss SWIFTs strategies with the regular crowd. SWIFT is a unique organisation in the midst of change, it is trying to become more commercial but it is also a standards b...
11 March 2011 /payments /wholesale Transaction Banking
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
I just got off the phone with Mark Jones, the financial communities editor for Reuters, about being our keynote speaker at Social Media Days - London. (He's sending me some bullet points for the keynote, so we'll be sure to get him up on the agenda as soon as that's in) It has been non-stop here at Finextra HQ and we have almost closed the speaking...
10 March 2011 /retail /wholesale Social Banks
Retired Member
It is 15 years since my first business trip (on behalf of a bank) to China - Pudong which, as a New Open Economic Zone, was still a work in progress and then visits to factories along the Pearl River, including the Victoria’s Secret supplier employing hundreds of machinists - all men. I asked the owner of the factory about his longer term plans – ...
22 February 2011 /wholesale
Someone batted around a sad, but not that surprising, statistic about our Finextra Community demographics yesterday. It's seems that a whopping 16% of our readership are women. Way-Hey! OK, so we cover the financial services industry and the technology industry - the two alpha males of the alpha-male dominated industries. But, come'on 16%? Can't w...
15 February 2011 /retail /wholesale Social Banks
Clearly if the entire banking system ruled by the US driven data sharing and transaction reporting rules can't find billions freshly stashed by fleeing dictators - the whole effort is a joke. A joke on European and Asian banks that is. It is also a completely unnecessary cost impost on banks and their customers. Are you all what we call 'mugs' in A...
14 February 2011 /payments /wholesale Whatever...
I mentioned ‘netting sets' in a previous blog on OTC clearing as a key focus of much debate at a recent OTC derivatives conference. To me, there seems to be some confusion around usage of the term within the subject of OTC clearing, and I've heard it used in a number of contexts. We can potentially talk about the netting of ‘positions' as well as ...
07 February 2011 /regulation /wholesale Financial Risk Management
While speaking at the OTC Derivatives and Counterparty Risk conference in London last week, I noticed a number of recurring themes which continued to pop up throughout the day. Most of the conference presentations touched upon the topics of margin and collateral management, netting sets and wrong-way risk. As mentioned in my previous blog (Adding...
31 January 2011 /regulation /wholesale Financial Risk Management
I have had a number of interesting chats with IT, information security and risk people about BYO (bring your own) technology and devices, and collaborative social sharing software, lately. (they were part of the non-editorial part of my job, so I can't spill the identity beans-yes, I know, it pisses me off too) Anyway, we all know the considered a...
26 January 2011 /regulation /wholesale Finance 2.0
According to the latest reports, the European Central Bank (ECB) is once again asserting its right to be more closely involved in shaping the OTC derivatives and clearing regulations. I, for one, would welcome greater involvement and oversight from the central bank. The ECB has every right to be included in any regulatory talks concerning, well, m...
25 January 2011 /wholesale
As the Dodd-Frank deadline for mandatory clearing approaches, most tier one banks have already established their basic OTC Clearing capabilities using tactical or semi-strategic solutions. However, banks now need to go one step further and create value-added services that have the potential to draw clients away from other more “standard” clearin
18 January 2011 /regulation /wholesale
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