It is seldom remembered today that one of the pioneers of business computing was J. Lyons and Co., whose main business was running a nationwide chain of teahouses, as well…
Regulations such as SFTR are driving discussion in the securities finance industry around how to agree on standardized processes and workflows. One idea is the Common Domain Model (CDM), similar…
Automation is the new “big thing” in capital markets, but weren’t computers invented to automate the work of humans that would otherwise be done by people? Predictions of wide scale…
In recent years, capital markets has been subject to a great deal of regulatory scrutiny, not to mention a lot more regulation. A new paper by Philipp Paeach of the London…
With Capital Markets yet to recover from the pain of trade reporting under EMIR (European Market Infrastructure Regulation) and DFA (Dodd-Frank Act), and with EMIR revision and MiFID II on…
The partnership announced by IHS Markit and Pirum Systems to provide a solution to the European Union’s Securities Finance Transaction Regulation (SFTR) demonstrates how seriously the industry and vendors are…
A major story in the Blockchain community (a place of strong opinions even in quiet times) is the R3 Consortium’s “Admission of Defeat on Blockchain”, but is this really news…
Open sourcing of software is accelerating the race to build repo processing on blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). An announcement by Comyno, that it has implemented basic repo functionality on a…
Research shows that the costs of conduct (or rather misconduct) have become a major drain on banking profitability. Wide-ranging regulatory change creates strong incentives to optimise banking business models, but…
Retail providers of Contracts for Differences (CFDs) and Spread Betting products in the UK were in shock Tuesday as their industry faces new controls from the Financial Conduct Authority. This move…