The dramatic increase over the past decade in the percentage of trading that is carried out electronically has given rise to a plethora of technology providers offering a range of...
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Since 2008, economic shock after shock focused regulators on initiatives to shore up the overall resilience of financial firms and reduce the impact of systemic interdependencies. Regulation dedicated to ensuring...
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Financial institutions face three enduring IT challenges: first, the maintenance and upgrade of legacy monolithic enterprise applications; second, the suboptimal behaviour of embedded third-party vendors in terms of slowness to...
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Taking a strategic approach to software architecture is a priority for 2022 and financial firms are re-evaluating and modernising their underlying architecture. Digital transformation projects lean hard on IT teams...
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In 2022, climate-related considerations are a mainstream focus in capital markets as part of global Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting initiatives. The most widely adopted framework is a voluntary...
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Traditionally, account opening processes in a financial institution required face-to-face contact between the financial institution’s onboarding team and the prospective client. However, as demand from investors for non-face-to-face (NFTF) onboarding...
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Despite astronomical sums being spent by banks on surveillance – almost US$ 740m by 15 surveyed Tier I and Tier II banks alone in the first two years after MAR...
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In recent years, there has been a global shift away from the established pattern of business communications. The Covid pandemic, and the continuing uncertainty it has created, has accelerated a...
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Software investment projects in financial markets organisations almost always include a ‘buy vs build’ decision: whether to buy – to purchase an off-the-shelf solution from a third-party vendor, or to...
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Pivoting Fixed Income E-trading Technology Assets to Accelerate Compliance In June 2015, a small group of quantitative traders working for the UK division of a Tier I global investment bank...
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An Introductory Article In 2021, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) considerations are emerging as a mainstream theme for the capital markets. Associated with sustainability, the ESG concept integrates environmental and...
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After years of investment in front office technology to streamline workflows in the face of squeezed trading margins and higher trading costs, investment banks and brokers now are focusing on...
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