It’s 2013 and we’re still talking about regulating HFT in the absence of data quality and standards conversations. That needs to change. 2012 seemed like the year of regulators taking a prolonged look at computer trading – defining what it might be, its potential effects, why it may be problematic. It is still far from clear that..
Will the FSB succeed in attempting to bring non-bank credit intermediaries out of the shadows? Now that regulators have this mass of data, what is the next step in linking it and putting it to use? In 2013, global regulators are finally taking a good look at connecting the data dots. The FSB has especially..
Over the past five years, the G20 has rolled out one of the largest technology and operations projects the financial system has ever seen. National regulators have issued multiple, often conflicting, regulations with differing technical standards, leaving firms sweating to upgrade their legacy systems to keep pace with change demands. Today, a report produced by..
However, the realisation of such an approach has been stifled by differences between national insolvency regimes and resolution tools. As a result, many assumed that, where such a conflict occurred, national regulators would naturally seek to cooperate on the issue, with one regulator giving sole jurisdiction to the other in order to allow for the..
Five years after the crisis started, real change is finally in store. Who is on the naughty and nice lists? In 2012, the industry saw a flurry of financial sector reforms. With over 140,000 pages of regulation produced over the past twenty four months, an ambitious but often discordant global regulatory framework has developed, leaving..
Can a controversial tax reporting initiative actually be good for your bottom line? We explore how. The US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) has been heavily criticised, and accused of being a “kind of US backward imperialism” with “an atomic bomb used to kill a fly”. At its heart, FATCA exists to track down..
2012 could well go down as a turning point for the industry. Billions in fines have raised consciousness of the need for better financial crime processes, systems and controls. Regulators have found sanctions breaches, anti-money laundering deficiencies and bribery failures – and will likely to continue to do so as they examine historical compliance. We..
Managing, aggregating and maintaining risk data used to be a box-ticking exercise with easily achievable targets. In 2013, landmark new global requirements mean firms will face a big step up. Over the past few years, regulation in the area of risk management information (MI) was fairly basic. In 2011, the FSA, like their US cousins,..
Thanks to technological hiccup after technological hiccup, High Frequency Trading (HFT) remains a permanent fixture in the financial press. With each blip, regulators and politicians promise to regulate HFT, but how they are going to put effective controls in place is still an open question. Despite the noise, the issues with HFT remain the same...
