Tag Archives: Confirmation

Disputed derivative transactions – Santander and Pourtuguese Rail Operator
I happened to read today a news item on disputed derivatives transactions.
It is reported therein, the dealers settled a crop of disputed derivatives trades with Portuguese state owned entities last year with one exception – Santander...

Next Level for Trade Repositories – Part I
Introduction
In financial markets, trading means performing a transaction that involves the selling and buying of commodities, equities, fixed income securities, foreign exchange and derivative products
Trade Repositories are entities are required...

Trade Repositories under European Market Infrastructure Regulation
Trade Repositories under European Markets Infrastructure Regulation will shortly become a reality once the European Securities and Markets Authority approves the registration application made by multiple trade repository aspirants. European...

BPO opportunities in investment banking
Business process outsourcing (BPO) is a subset of outsourcing that involves the contracting of the operations and responsibilities of specific business functions (or processes) to a third-party service provider. Originally, this was associated...

Interest Rate Derivatives and their wrong sales to gullible customers
Banks are more in the news these days – for a variety of reasons with negative impact of course. Of all these, the one connected with mis-selling of interest rate derivative products is causing considerable damage.
The kind of allegations...

Foreign Exchange Dealing Operations
If you buy a Binny Silk Saree for your wife (or girl friend!) at T.Nagar Chennai Nalli Silks, you will naturally want to pay for it with Indian Rupees and the Nalli Silks will want to be paid in Rupees because he pays all his bills with Rupees.
Likewise,...

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...

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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