1137 Results from 2015
Retired Member
By recommending that the European Commission should adopt Technical Standards that mandate the use of only ISINs for MiFIR regulatory reporting, ESMA has in practice reinforced the sole-supplier status of each non-competing ISIN issuer across the 28 EU member states. So - who are these ISIN issuers? Of the National Numbering Agencies (NNAs) in t...
14 December 2015 /regulation
Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
Buy side firms have shown signs of impatience with U.S. equity market structure. While they are leery of radical reforms, institutions have seeded a number of trading venues lately. The topic of buy side firms investing in alternative trading system came up during a recent industry conference discussing 40 years of the National Market System. “Why ...
14 December 2015 /startups
Daniel Szmukler Director at EBA
2016 will be another decisive year for the payments industry, as it should become clearer how the provisions on access to Payment Initiation and Account Information services (XS2A) as part of the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) will come to live. Will the European Banking Authority (EBA) offer an actionable path, or should the industry st...
14 December 2015 /payments EBAday
Over the last few years, the retail industry has evolved to cater to new shopping habits and consumer trends – particularly in the light of new NFC technologies such as Apple Pay. This has pushed merchants to re-think their strategies in order to serve the “omni-channel shopper”, who is keen to buy whenever, wherever and however he wants. Merc
14 December 2015 /payments
Travers Clarke-Walker SVP at Thought Machine
Currently there is an explosion of activity in the financial technology (FinTech) sector in the UK. Political attention is turning to the issue with David Cameron recently backing the Innovate Finance Manifesto: UK 2020 that aims to advance the UK’s standing as a leader in FinTech innovation hub. Investment has skyrocketed to $623 million in 2014[...
14 December 2015
Nanda Kumar CEO at SunTec Business Solutions
The catastrophic global recession of 2008 sent ripples through the banking sector. Many banks struggled to cope with massive losses suffered because of debt they accrued through somewhat risky investments. Banks, like the Lehman Brothers, went under and others are only now starting to recover by taking the same risks but in a less haphazard way. T...
14 December 2015 /regulation /retail
Looking ahead to 2016, it’s clear there are going to be new KYC rules drafted or implemented around the world. These new rules will require banks and investment managers to challenge the way they conduct client on-boarding and due diligence – these organizations will need to embed processes that ensure they literally know their clients 24 hours a ...
14 December 2015 /regulation /inclusion
The marketing communication mistake most businesses make is "Talking mostly about themselves, not about their customer and WIIFM (What's in it for me?) with respect to the customer" A school friend of mine is part of an NGO whose work focuses extensively on skill development and income generation of children and women for a region in Indi...
If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them First of all, a confession is due. After weeks of fretting over the futility of predicting the future of technology, I have now formally joined the high minded sport of predicting blockchain's future. That's what this blog is about, may the reader be forewarned. W Edward Deming once said - Without data, you're just...
13 December 2015
Over the past few years the decision to deploy applications in the cloud has been mainly one of IT strategy: is it more cost effective and/or efficient to opt for a cloud-based deployment model rather than on premise? Until very recently cloud migrations from a business-use perspective changed little; a new web-front end simply covered the old on-...
11 December 2015 /payments
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