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
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Liquidity crises and technology responses
BIS Working Paper No.293 issued in November 2009 deals with the very interesting recent market happening – liquidity crisis. It
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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
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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.
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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
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Hybrid Markets – The markets of the future
The recent market crises and the subsequent regulatory awakening have contributed to the evolution of a new market category in
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Interface Management in Investment Banking
It may be surprising to those who are not directly involved in investment banking activities that the success in this
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Investment banking and revenue pressures – ways to go
Setting: One of the purposes of any business is to make money. And banking is no exception to this cardinal
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Key challenges in equity markets
Last week, one of my connections raised a question – what are the key challenges in the equity markets –
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Options Symbology Initiative – OSI
The OSI is a plan to overhaul the existing method of identifying exchange-listed options contracts to decrease the current limitations
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