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Complexity Reduction through waste management
Yes. Complexity Reduction can be achieved in banking industry through adoption of Financial Technology.
Normally wastes can occur in both hardware and software. For the purpose of this discussion, we shall focus only on software wastes.
Financial...
Central Counter Parties have a greater role to play
This blog makes an attempt to cover the role of central counterparties in four parts as under:
Part A– All about Central Counterparties
Part B– Best practices framework for CCPs
Part C – Some loud thinking on their future roles
Part D...
Leadship in uncertain times
Leading through uncertainty can be as complex as four deaf and blind persons trying to explain how an elephant would look like by merely touching different parts of a wild elephant. I am also, placed in a similar environment. Despite this serious...
Financial Market Harmonization Through Financial Technology Application
The global financial industry is in the midst of unprecedented and challenging times. Changes in market conditions drive a very different economic climate which beckons the need to accelerate market harmonization in emerging countries.
What...
OTC Derivatives’s Central Clearing – the focus
The introduction of legislation in the US and Europe to move settlement of some OTC derivative products through a Central Counter Party is the much talked about topic among leading bankers. The aim of this legislation is to bring in much needed...
Realignments in Investment Banking – Sell Side to Buy Side
Euro and Europe are going through challenging times.
Stephen Hester, chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, has conceded for the first time that the state-backed lender could sell its investment banking division. Giving evidence to members...
Greediness faciliated by slack regulation leads to banks’ downfall
Jerome Kerviel former employee Societe Generate, the author of 4.9 billion Euros loss for the bank has claimed now that his superiors knew of his risky bets. (Source Ruadhan Mac Cormaic in Paris). He also claims his superiors turned a blind...
An insight into swap execution facility
Swap Execution Facility is a new entity created by Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (in US).
A swap is broadly defined to include most OTC derivatives. Rates swaps, currency swaps, equity swaps, credit default swaps...
Strategies for Stock exchanges to succeed
Setting:
According to Chris Skinner “There’s plenty of innovation in banking right now, from investment through commercial to retail banking. ………… But some innovators create new business models at the expense of the incumbents...
Fundamentals and basic instincts drive FX Markets
Bank for International Settlements, Basel, Switzerland conducts triennial central bank survey on foreign exchange and derivatives market activity. The last such survey was conducted in April 2010. As per the findings of this survey, Global Foreign...
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