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John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd
The initial target of the UK Faster Payments scheme seemed a simple concept to deliver - eliminating float (the three days gap between funds leaving the payee's account and arriving in the recipents) - but as with most financial sector initiatives the implementation detail has been significantly more complex. Back in February this year when I fou...
24 June 2007 /payments UK Faster Payments
I am just back from an entertaining and informative session at SunLive07, with particular items of note including two MiFID experts (Bob Fuller of Equiduct and Nick Gibson of ABN) actually agreeing on most things, not least and not surprisingly that rapid decisions by CESR are required on Best Execution and Transaction Reporting to aid implementat...
13 March 2007 /wholesale Trends in Financial Services
Well the answer is obviously yes, I do. Particularly when it throws up in that Hitch Hicker’s Guide to the Galaxy, maximum improbability drive way a gem like “Managers Say the Majority of Information Obtained for Their Work Is Useless, Accenture Survey Finds”. There I was looking for some dull, but important nugget on MiFID, or was it payments or ...
27 February 2007 Trends in Financial Services
At MPIE we recently provided input to a whitepaper from NetApp - a leading unified storage solutions supplier - on compliance trends and how to reduce the risk and costs of their impact. I will leave you to judge the specific merits of the NetApp solution, but the general principles are clear. By understanding and designing for the wider complianc...
27 February 2007 /regulation /wholesale MiFID
It seems appropriate to start blogging about UK Faster Payments (UKFP), the scheme to provide cheaper and easier "near real-time" via internet and phone banking, by a reference to the most recent APACS announcement. At face value it is reporting good news - the scheme is on track. However, there is the strong hint in the text that even t...
22 February 2007 /payments /retail UK Faster Payments
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