Blockchain
Blazing new analytical paths: Tackling data aggregation for new risk insights
As the risk function’s influence continues to grow within financial services firms, demand for quality integrated risk data to support a wider range of business-critical decisions is stretching the capabilities of existing technology to breaking point. A…
Malta’s crypto assets plan means greater AML risks, IMF warns
Authorities must rapidly improve AML regime and guarantee FSA’s independence, mission says
Blockchain won’t help the UK to go P2P
Legal and practical problems mean blockchain is unlikely to change the UK’s grid, writes energy expert
Cryptocurrencies: king’s ransom or fool’s gold?
Extreme volatility makes products an unreliable store of value – for now
Hackathon finds pre-trade gold in Isda’s post-trade project
Dealers’ derivatives trade processing costs could be cut by at least $3 billion per year
Disruptive change in US power markets: Identifying risks and embracing opportunities in the new world of digital
Power markets worldwide are experiencing disruptive changes on a bigger scale and with greater speed than many had anticipated. Now, more than ever, it is essential to understand opportunities and risks associated with these changes
Power market set for 2019 blockchain boom
Blockchain could cut costs and bring in microgenerators, industry believes
Planned sale prompts hard look at post-trade firms
Plans to sell MarkitServ fuel warnings about middleware vendors’ future
The changing face of European power trading
Webinar: FIS
Regulatory and economic pressures argue for banks to embrace new approaches to technology
Video Q&A: Neil Dodgson, IBM Watson Financial Services
From prophets to ‘parasites’
How post-trade vendors went from problem-solvers to ‘rent-seekers’
The battle for the back office
Post-trade incumbents at risk as Isda and others search for standards
How fintech could reboot Libor
Polsinelli’s Rutenberg says blockchain technology and ‘Libor currency’ could boost submission incentives and make process more secure
DLT offers new possibilities for securities settlement, say ECB and BoJ
Second phase of ‘Project Stella’ looks at delivery versus payment on three DLT platforms
Distributed ledger technology in payments, clearing and settlement
This paper examines how DLT can be used in the area of PCS, and identifies both the opportunities and challenges associated with its long-term implementation and adoption.
Swift’s CRO on Bangladesh Bank heist, cyber risk and DLT
Quraishi lays out Swift’s approach to members’ security, and technological risks and opportunities
CLS’s Nagia on overcoming the challenges of forex clearing
As CLS expands into cleared derivatives, its CRO must navigate uncharted risk territory
Market Technology Awards 2018: New problems, new solutions
Vendors embrace cloud, alternative languages and agile approaches
Russian crypto-currency will threaten AML efforts
Targeting individuals and companies could be impossible with digital currency, write academics
DTCC’s Bodson on blockchain, SDRs and repo clearing
Risk30: swap data reporting will move to a distributed ledger platform in early 2018
Nex’s Spencer on tech, Brexit and the UK’s identity crisis
Risk30: Icap founder fears return of exchange controls under a Labour government
Chicago exchanges embrace crypto-currency
Exchanges' interest piqued, but regulators and some market participants hesitant
Giancarlo: crypto-currency futures do not need new rules
CFTC chair says US regulators can oversee products using existing powers