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  • Derek Perry

    Agility versus the belts

    13 May 2013: Are lean six sigma initiatives within financial services enough to achieve the efficiencies needed to gain and / or maintain competitive advantage in post-trade operations?

  • Alec Nelson

    Are you ready for the year of the Chinese renminbi?

    24 Apr 2013: The renminbi (RMB) is the official name given to the currency in the People's Republic of China (PRC). "Yuan" (¥) is the name for a unit of this currency (officially traded as CNY). It is issued by the People's Bank of China (PBoC), the monetary authority of the PRC. Remninbi means "the people's currency". It's also known internationally as "the redback".

  • Jon Warren

    Big Data: the collateral optimisation opportunity

    8 Apr 2013: Continued regulatory pressures and a new wave of technologies are shaping how financial institutions tackle Big Data. However, with so many vendors offering a raft of data management systems, risk managers grappling to achieve an aggregated single view, and IT divisions tackling long implementation times with legacy systems, is it time for a new approach?

  • Simon Romp

    The real threats to digital security

    3 Apr 2013: The financial services industry is increasingly reliant on multiple digital channels to facilitate business growth. While this provides significant opportunities, it also comes with increasing threats. The industry is now more vulnerable than ever before to attacks from individuals and groups with a range of motives.

  • James Tomkinson

    EU Parliament approves European Markets Infrastructure Regulations (EMIR)

    21 Feb 2013: There is no doubt that EMIR is still on track. February 2013 opened with a cliff-hanger of a week that saw the European Securities Market Association (ESMA) (responsible for building the single rule book across European Union financial markets and ensuring its consistent application and supervision) present for EU Parliamentary scrutiny its Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) for the European Monetary Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR).