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Politicians need to move fast as Facebook & Co move into finance: BIS
By Huw Jones and Tom Wilson
June 23, 2019, Reuters
Politicians need to quickly coordinate regulatory responses to new risks from technology companies like Facebook moving into finance, though banks …
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Privacy laws crimp bank efforts to snoop on traders
By Alexander Campbell
June 21, 2019, Risk
Never before have computers been so adept at watching the people who use them. And at banks, privacy restrictions may well stop some …
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DLT Can Enhance Settlement Systems, But Not Replace Them
By Manesh Samtani
June 14, 2019, Regulation Asia
A new paper from Greenwich Associates says DLT cannot replace settlement infrastructure entirely without imposing the very costs it was designed to …
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Entire industry to benefit from APIs – DTCC
By Louisa Chender
June 17, 2019, Global Investor Group
The entire industry could benefit from an increased use of APIs which in time could have the potential to effectively replace …
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Using AI to spot potential rogue traders
Rogue traders can cost banks billions. Now some are using artificial intelligence programmes to flag suspicious behaviour, looking at everything from how traders phrase their emails to the times they …
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Go to the Head of the Class: Smart Contracts for Swaps Trading
By George Bollenbacher, TABB Group
Originally published on the TABB FORUM
Smart contracts’ potential for making the rates swaps business much more efficient looks very attractive. But these contracts, and …
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A Watchdog Says Hedge Fund Secrets Kept by the CFTC Are Vulnerable to Hacking
By Benjamin Bain and Robert Schmidt
June 11, 2019, Bloomberg
Confidential market information collected from hedge funds and brokers by the main U.S. derivatives regulator is vulnerable to hacking because …
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Bond traders swap phones for new technology as market catches up
By Tommy Wilkes and Dhara Ranasinghe
June 4, 2019, Reuters
Carl James became a trader when he was 19, in the boisterous telephone dealing rooms of the 1990s.
Now, he …
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“Electronification” and the Technology Revolution in Corporate Bond Trading
By Iseult E.A. Conlin, Tradeweb
Originally published on LinkedIn
The term “Electronification” is thrown around a lot when talking about advances in the corporate bond market. It describes the nascent …
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MiFID II: small U.S. asset managers struggle with research unbundling costs
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Rising costs and lower returns hit U.S. and European fund houses
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MiFID adds 20 minutes to client meetings
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SEC Points Toward Market Solutions in the U.S. to Resolve MIFID II Conflict
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ESMA’s Final Verdict: Europe’s Periodic Auctions Breathe Sigh of Relief
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MiFID II: small U.S. asset managers struggle with research unbundling costs
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Rising costs and lower returns hit U.S. and European fund houses
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MiFID adds 20 minutes to client meetings
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SEC Points Toward Market Solutions in the U.S. to Resolve MIFID II Conflict
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ESMA’s Final Verdict: Europe’s Periodic Auctions Breathe Sigh of Relief
Food for Thought: Five Things I Learned at the BBH Fintech Breakfast
By Adrian Whelan, Brown Brothers Harriman
Originally published at the On the Regs blog
BBH recently had the pleasure of hosting some of the Irish Fund industry’s best and brightest …
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