1077 Results from 2016
Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.
I know that many of you will be saying that SIBOS is long over and 2016 has begun with new opportunities. I do believe that there are some valuable take aways. Those of you who are SIBOS devotes, with more than a few SIBOS’s under your belt will recognize that there is a buzz word at each SIBOS event. In 2015, the word that was the theme or focus o...
24 February 2016 /sibos Innovation in Financial Services
Retired Member
There is the widespread assumption that MiFID II/R will lead to increased levels of pre-trade transparency and significantly reduce OTC trading, restricting it to the less liquid and more bespoke products. This assumption is driven in large part by the joint introduction of obligatory Market Making agreements, a stricter interpretation of Systemati...
24 February 2016 /regulation
The open banking framework was published a couple of weeks ago by the open banking working group. Here I share my 10 most salient take outs in 10 headings. If you want to know what the 148 pages of the document really cover, read through this summary. Before we start, I think they have done a tremendous job. It's an excellent document, the proposa...
24 February 2016 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
Who would want to be the CEO of a major UK bank? Listening to Ross McEwan of RBS speak at a recent dinner, you could only imagine that he is looking forward to handing over the reins to the next masochist who puts his hand up. If it’s not capital adequacy, then its more rules and regulations. If it’s not operational footprint (“we employ a small...
24 February 2016 /retail
The pixels were barely dry on my last blog post on the regulatory impact of a potential Brexit on the City of London, when news broke that LSE Group was in talks with Deutsche Börse over a "merger of equals". The LSE has done a great job under Xavier's stewardship of positioning itself for the practical realities of the industry today, w...
Here’s a scary statistic: 90% of big corporate banking clients would consider switching to a different financial institution for better service around onboarding, account maintenance, service requests and inquiry handling. Pega recently asked Finextra Research, a leading specialist in financial technology news and information, to conduct a survey o...
22 February 2016 /wholesale
With margins down in the syndicated loan market, asset managers are seeking to operate as efficiently as possible. However, operational friction between front, middle and back office teams is a hurdle for most firms. A recent survey by Markit showed that exchanging data within the asset management enterprise continues to be the biggest operation...
22 February 2016
In looking at compliance officers (from the buy side, sell side, exchanges, and regulators) I saw only one person with a background in data science, machine learning, decision science, statistics or other data analysis discipline. Granted, my search was wholly unscientific. My college professors in Decision Science at Indiana University wou
22 February 2016 /regulation Financial Services Regulation
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Most people have heard of storing information in “the cloud,” but do you know what this means, and if it is even safe? A cloud is basically a network of servers that offer different functions. Some of these servers allow you to store data while others provide various services. The cloud is made of millions of servers across the globe and most are o...
22 February 2016 /security
In 2014 the Internet of Things (IoT) landed at the top of Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies replacing big data on the throne. Today, we are witnessing a revolution where wearables, connected appliances, health-tracking devices are getting thousands of new users each day. The prediction is that by 2020 we will have 25 to 50 billion dev...
22 February 2016 /retail
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