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U.S. proposes barring big tech companies from offering financial services, digital currencies
By Pete Schroeder and Ismail Shakil
July 14, 2019, Reuters
A proposal to prevent big technology companies from functioning as financial institutions or issuing digital currencies has been circulated for …
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Bank of England’s Ambitious Look at Regulatory Reporting
By Josephine Gallagher
July 2, 2019, Waters Technology
The aftermath of the financial crisis has seen a massive increase in reporting requirements for trading firms. This has also created unique …
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ISDA backs regulatory push on derivatives data project
By Luke Clancy
June 28, 2019, Risk
Financial authorities should force markets to adopt a single format for transaction reporting, a senior figure at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association …
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BOE probes banks on machine learning use
By Tom Osborn
June 28, 2019, Risk
Model risk managers say a recent survey by the Bank of England on the use of machine learning techniques within financial services firms …
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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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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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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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