1136 Results from 2015
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There has a been a lot of talk about how to trade blocks that are smaller than the LIS waiver but that are still too big to go to regular lit markets. The debate has been ratcheted up by the 4 and 8% dark pool caps that are part of the MiFID II spectre looming above us all. One approach, of course, is to chop your block into smaller pieces with an...
10 September 2015 /regulation
In a world where corporate transactions take place around the clock, payment delays are no longer acceptable. How should banks and PSPs prepare for the New Access Model? Since its introduction to the UK in 2008, the Faster Payments Service (FPS) has gained huge momentum. Customers are already seeing the benefits in reducing payment processing times...
10 September 2015 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Implementing a Matching Engine application presents a host of challenges. If you're responsible for such a project then you need to give serious consideration to a number of critical system components. Here are just a few of the questions that you'll ne to think seriously about: Is this a batch "slice and dice" implementation or more ta...
09 September 2015 /regulation
The delays in enacting regulatory mandates for central clearing of FX derivatives highlight an interesting trend—even though clearing remains optional, the industry continues to increase the level of activity booked through central clearing counterparties (CCPs). Market participants should continue to prepare for the day when clearing becomes the ...
Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
As electronic trading grows on the buy-side and top dealers retreat from sharing market color, exchanges are snapping up FX trading venues. In July, Deutsche Borse said it will buy foreign exchange trading platform 360T for $796 million to diversify and capture volume in the $5.3 trillion-a-day currency markets. This follows BATS Global Markets’ ...
Around the world, the use of cash is being challenged. Scandinavians are perhaps the most radical proponents of change (or, rather, the reduction of change in people's pockets). As of next year, many Danish businesses will no longer be required to accept cash. Over in Sweden, former ABBA star Björn Ulvaeus, once famous for singing "money, mone...
09 September 2015 /payments
“Strategy decay” is the idea that by the time investments have been made on large IT implementations and the technology is rolled out, your “new” solutions have already been leapfrogged by the latest advancements. This is a serious concern for today’s financial services (FS) firms, which can be negatively affected when it comes to shrinking budget...
09 September 2015
Following months of speculation, complete with the token leaks and rumours flying around, Apple finally “gave us the hint” that the latest iPhone is (in all likelihood) going to be released this week. Improvements in smartphone technology present significant opportunities to the financial services industry. In fact, several banks have been busy exp...
Disruptive innovation often involves fragmentation and incompatibility… especially in the short-term. Most entrepreneurs focus on solving a specific immediate problem vs. laying the foundation for longer-term usage and growth. Thus, perhaps not surprisingly, the huge majority of all mobile money implementations around the world are not interop
08 September 2015 /payments
It may take 10 or even 20 years, but the bank you know today is going away. For good. It will either reinvent itself from the inside out or simply disappear as a casualty of market forces. Digitisation continues to disrupt almost every area of financial services. New market entrants are targeting customers as banks that aren’t actually banks go af...
08 September 2015
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