Launch of Gibraltar Association for New Technologies Boosts Country’s Expanding Blockchain Ecosystem
Blockchain Focused Trade Association will act as a forum for policy makers, regulators, professional firms, and educators…
Commentary
IBOR Transition Comparable to Y2K or Brexit: Firms Must Prepare Early
For many financial institutions, benchmark reform is clearly an agenda item for 2019; however, given the sheer…
Post Financial Crisis Trends – A Look Back at Collateral Optimisation & Collateral Transformation
Following the financial crisis, collateral management was centre stage for market participants who found themselves working to…
Automating the Back Office (Finally)
Cloud computing has been around for many years, but the capital markets and the post trade space…
Have We Learned the Right Lessons from the Collapse of Lehman Brothers?
Henry Ford once said, the only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. Ten…
Control and Patrol Roles: Why it Ain’t Always Easy Being a Compliance Officer
Catherine Sutcliffe of Moxie Rules explores four main challenges compliance and regulatory professionals face in today’s financial industry….
CFTC Seeks to Loosen Restrictive SEF Rules
Claiming that Dodd Frank’s Title VII rules post-financial crisis legislation has not moved swaps trading onto SEFs…
How to Mitigate Unconscious Biases and Leverage the Talents of Every Employee
Based on interview with Tinna C. Nielsen, Anthopologist and Inclusion & Diversity expert (Listen to related podcast)…
How to Build a Winning Team: Make it More Inclusive
Inclusiveness has become something of a buzzword, especially in the wake of the #TimesUp, and #MeToo movements,…
Beyond Initial Margin Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR): Additional Derivatives Types and Confirmation of Settlement, Substitutions and Confirmations
Efficiencies for Over the Counter (OTC) derivatives have been driven by uncleared margin rules in recent years….