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While the rules trickle in for swap execution facilities, firms are investing in connectivity and platform design in anticipation of a deeper, more liquid...
Waters | Feature | Regulation & Standards | 02 May 2012
Mobile technology, while still in its nascence in the capital markets, has enjoyed significant uptake over the past 18 months as growing numbers of firms have started to roll out apps designed specifically for tablets and smartphones. But as Victor Anderson...
Waters | Feature | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 01 May 2012
While it hasn’t gotten the attention it did during the green wave of the mid-2000s, environmentally friendly technology is in place at many of the world’s major financial institutions. Jake Thomases looks at the latest initiatives designed to save...
Waters | Feature | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 14 Mar 2012
As regulators praise the advancements made by financial institutions in the prevention of fraud and money laundering, new technology is helping detect criminal behavior. Jake Thomases looks at the progress that’s been made.
Waters | Feature | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 06 Jan 2012
Pipeline Trading Systems, the seven-year-old dark pool operator specializing in block trades, paid $1 million to resolve SEC claims that it failed to provide the confidentiality and liquidity it advertised to customers. Will the incident have broader...
Waters | Feature | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 05 Jan 2012
Sitanta Ni Mathghamhna looks at the industry’s own hall of shame—a précis of some of the biggest trading frauds in history. Toshihide Iguchi, Daiwa Bank TOTAL LOSS: $1.1 billion Toshihide Iguchi, a former Japanese government bond trader at Daiwa...
Waters | Feature | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 28 Oct 2011
The recent rogue trading debacle at UBS has once again thrown the issue of corporate fraud into the spotlight. How was another mid-level trader able to circumvent his firm’s risk controls in such a spectacular manner? By Sitanta Ni Mathghamhna Like...
Waters | Feature | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 28 Oct 2011
The contract for difference (CFD) business is booming: Analysts in the 2010 UK Financial Spread Betting and Contracts for Difference Report stated they expected an additional 9,000 CFD traders to enter the market in 2011. Additionally, a study by consultancy...
Waters | Feature | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 01 Aug 2011
Cloud is happening. Whether you are for the technology, against it, or somewhere in the undecided middle—it has taken root in financial services, and it’s here to stay. As with anything that generates a lot of buzz in a short space of time, it...
Waters | Feature | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 01 Aug 2011
It would be naïve to think that sexism doesn’t exist in the financial services industry—the numbers speak for themselves. Perhaps there is a certain level of expectation that arises when it comes to sexism, or perhaps it’s more a case of simply...
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