Insights

The Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) are set to move beyond large institutions to a wider scope of market participants with a request for detailed updates on preparedness in the transition away from the London Inter-bank Offered Rate (Libor), according to Rich Fox, head of markets policy at the FCA and member of the... read more

“Financial institutions – and in general large corporations – are more willing to accept cloud solutions and little by little they are taking their systems and solutions and putting them on the public cloud, recognising the fact that the public cloud companies can operate the cloud at much better efficiency and scale than they can... read more

Firms must prepare for a lack of equivalence of trading venues between the UK and the European Union being used as a political tool, warned Kay Swinburne former MEP and current vice chair of financial services at KPMG. “There are significant hurdles still to clear [regarding Brexit],” said Swinburne at the InvestOps conference in... read more

The increasing need for firms to have resilient operating models is putting pressure on fintech partnerships, according to John Marsland, chief operating officer at Schroders Investment Management. “It has been made very clear by pretty much all of the regulators that we are the ones responsible for the service, regardless of whether... read more

In August, challenger bank Monzo announced it will begin offering short-term loans to its 2.5 million customers. This is an interesting move for the challenger bank, particularly considering the animosity felt towards many payday lenders following the collapse of Wonga last year. In January 2015, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)... read more

Bloomberg’s launch of a new analytics hosting service for algorithmic orders on FXGO rationalises the trade workflow as market participants look to make greater use of automation and data insights. “We’ve seen algo trading increase significantly among our FX clients over the past five years and our expectation is that... read more

In the wake of the financial crisis, regulators in the US and Europe have ramped up their oversight on capital markets institutions, driving up compliance costs. Firms are also seeing revenue stagnate as margins are squeezed ever tighter at a time when market volatility is low and outflows increase as investor interest in passive investments... read more

ECO Advisors, a London-based long/short Ucits fund focusing on environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) strategies via their flagship fund – the Protea Ucits II – ECO Advisors ESG Absolute Return Fund, has gone live on INDATA’s cloud-based iPM OMS via Microsoft Azure. ECO (short for Ethical Capital Opportunity)... read more

The LED flickered then glowed, casting its green shadow onto the dust of the worn printed circuit board, known simply as Motherboard. A feint click had preceded the awakening of the power supply, summoned from standby and the temperature began to rise in the system unit. The stamped foil asset label on the casing, smudged on one upturned corner,... read more

Financial institutions need to maintain a herd mentality when it comes to testing and preparing to operate under the Securities and Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR), says Mark Steadman, executive director at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). “The thing with regulatory reporting is that it is a necessity,... read more