Protect Your Homepage from “Man-in-the-Middle” Attacks
Most financial institutions invest a large portion of their security budgets to protect their software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. They correctly perceive...
Risk & Security
The LEItmotif of the OTC BUSIness is PreoccUPIed with Data Integrity and Consistency
Just one year ago you were probably aware of ISINs, BICs and/or SWIFT codes. But LEI, USI or UPI would...
If They Build It, Will They Come? A Look at Electronic OTC Trading Venues
One of the mandates of the 2009 G20 summit was to ensure the electronic trading and central clearing of standardised...
Opportunity with the Underbanked for FIs
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Equifax and Chexar see opportunity for FIs among the underbanked. Credit-reporting agency Equifax introduced a new product...
Bank of America Tops PayPal as Most Downloaded App
Bank of America knocked PayPal from its perch as the No. 1 most downloaded financial services app this week. BoA's...
Bank Innovation TV: Three Trends Spotted at BAI Retail Delivery
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- What was the scuttlebutt at this week's BAI Retail Delivery conference here? We spotted three, and we've...
Trade Repository Reporting: The Regulation of Unintended Consequences
In order to monitor systemic risks as near to real-time as possible regulators have introduced the requirement for market participants...
OTC clearing and Its Impact on Collateral Management
Collateral: banks, broker-dealers, funds and clearinghouses all need it more than ever. Collateralization of bilateral as well as cleared OTC...
‘Extraterritoriality’ in trading — try saying that quickly, three times over!
After almost two years since the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) was put on the statute books, the first swap-related articles finally...
OTC regulatory complexity fosters clearing insecurity
“ The financial crisis that began in 2007 had its origins precisely in over-complex regulation.” These are the wise words...
