Infrastructure
Planned sale prompts hard look at post-trade firms
Plans to sell MarkitServ fuel warnings about middleware vendors’ future
Innovations in financial crime – How artificial intelligence and machine learning are changing the game
Financial crime is a critical element in the overall risk profile of a bank. Fines associated with failure to have effective institutional controls in place can extend from hundreds of millions to billions of dollars. Furthermore, the complexity of the…
Trade data initiatives aim to unify regulatory reporting
Standardised data would improve systemic risk monitoring and save firms billions, say data engineers
Safeguarding liquidity in a changing environment
Nick Gant, head of fixed income prime brokerage for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific at Societe Generale Prime Services, discusses banks’ evolving responsibilities for providing liquidity in a post-financial crisis environment in which…
On the offensive – Seeking a new edge, buy-side invests in portfolio and risk analytics
A fast-moving, headstrong hedge fund – hit by rare losses after a black swan event touched on an overweight country exposure – ponders adding fresh quantitative expertise. Much to traders’ chagrin, the chief investment officer and chief operating officer…
Bridging networks, systems and controls frameworks for cybersecurity curriculums and standards development
This paper proposes a risk management framework designed to facilitate the alignment, integration and streamlining of professional practice standards and computer science/cybersecurity educational curriculums by bridging NPNATFs, SNIFs and RMCPFs.
A long-term approach – Expanding and serving a global client base
Patrick Colle, general manager at BNP Paribas Securities Services, discusses how the provider’s carefully planned expansion strategy has contributed to its expansion into the US market, how it plans to capitalise on opportunities in the European market…
Breaking the collateral silos – Navigating regulation with a strategic alternative
Emmanuel Denis, head of tri‑party services at BNP Paribas Securities Services, discusses why financial institutions must rethink old practices of collateral management and instead adopt a tri-party approach, with which equities can be managed as…
FRTB: Delivering on the promise of data-driven insights
With two years left to implement the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB), banks of various sizes are finding the task difficult for very different reasons. A survey undertaken this summer revealed the barriers to implementing effective…
A communicative approach to innovative business growth
James Rausch, head of Canadian client coverage and global head of banks, brokers and exchanges at RBC Investor & Treasury Services, discusses how the organisation works alongside clients, leveraging resources and expertise from its other businesses and…
Monitoring regulatory changes to stay one step ahead
Satya Pemmaraju, founder and chief executive officer at Droit Financial Technologies, discusses how the organisation’s Adept platform can offer institutions knowledge of complex global rules systems to enable auditability and traceability, as well as how…
Global harmony – Educating firms on the new Common Reporting Standard
TMF Group explores how educating organisations on the approaching Common Reporting Standard can fix problems presented by discrepancies in the standard’s interpretation across different jurisdictions
Digitally adapting to regulatory change
Nicolas Marque, global head of equity derivatives, global markets, at BNP Paribas, discusses how the organisation has tackled regulatory changes by digitising its business and adapting its IT systems, and why investment and acquisitions in infrastructure…
A proven technology and exceptional service
Head of NEX Regulatory Reporting Collin Coleman discusses the end-to-end regulatory reporting solution that addresses the needs of reporting parties across the regulatory regime and, in this year’s Operational Risk Awards, has been named best regulatory…
Fed official: banks must recover from cyber attack in two hours
“If you’re waiting for us to give you regulation, then you’re behind the curve,” says NY Fed’s Ferlazzo
Infrastructure and real estate: Advanced modelling techniques for pricing and valuations
Investment managers seeking stability are turning to non-capital market based assets
A not-so-secret recipe for success: Beacon's cloud-based quant platform
The cloud-based quant platform offered by Beacon shares an architecture with the systems that sharpened Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan’s competitive edge. Chief operating officer Mark Higgins talks about how banks can deliver trading desk tools to their…
Energy CROs: cyber risk can only grow
Major cyber attacks on energy trading and infrastructure considered inevitable
Automated for the people
Regulatory risk is a key concern for Asia-Pacific non-banking financial firms, particularly in light of a lack of support from regulators, according to research from Asia Risk and Wolters Kluwer. Many organisations are investing in automation to ease…
Algorithmic execution: Harnessing technology to manage risk
Technological innovation continues to provide market participants with access to increasingly sophisticated risk management tools and strategies. Senior executives at HSBC discuss how organisations can make the most of cutting-edge solutions such as…
Bundesbank’s Buch slams lower capital for insurers in infrastructure
Deputy president says the use of prudential regulations to achieve economic policy objectives is “highly problematic”
Staying agile and fit for purpose in commodity financial systems
Commodity houses are searching for more sophisticated ways of enhancing their risk management systems. Instead of tearing down the old order, or duplicating systems across services, Amine Chbani, head of commodities business development at Murex,…
Q&A: Bafin's Hufeld concerned ECB doesn't understand German banks
Sparkassen and co-operative sectors 'look like an outlier that doesn't fit with Europe'
Disruptive technology could leave regulators behind – Stanworth
Focus on historical data is out of step with speed of change, says head of L&G Capital