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SEC hopes for Midas touch from HFT surveillance system
The Washington-based SEC is watching Wall Street

the US Securities and Exchange Commission says that its cloud-based approach is paying dividends and allowing it to examine the structures of the markets it supervises at a greater level of granularity than ever before.

Keeping it simple: market data management made easy …
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New York start-up Simplified Financial Information is piloting a market data analytics system prior to release later this summer.

Norwegian oil firm looks to leverage case-based analytics system for financial services

Case-based reasoning tools developed for the oil industry are being re-engineered for financial markets by a new division of the Swedish firm Verdande Technology with the intention of creating a systems monitoring tool for trading firms.

Next Bank Madrid reveals Spain’s strongest startups

Next Bank Madrid has chosen the finalists for a competition that seeks to find the best financial services startup companies from the Spanish and Portuguese speaking world.

Unlocking the mobile wallet

Speakers at the Digital Services Conference hosted by Informa in London on Tuesday expressed frustration at the lack of progress made by mobile wallets in the UK and called for more innovative solutions to bypass the impasse.

Interviews
Joining the dots: Thomas Zeeb, chief executive, Six Securities Services
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The post-trade infrastructures behind the world’s securities markets face as much, if not more, regulatory driven change as the trading firms in the face of legislation such as the European Union’s European Market Infrastructure Regulation. While some of the effects will be negative, the regulators are showing a constructive approach and recognising that the infrastructure providers came out of the crisis well, says Thomas Zeeb, chief executive of Six Securities Services.

SEPA: the long and winding road
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As the first deadline for implementation of the Single Euro Payments Area approaches in February 2014, you could be forgiven for thinking that it is pretty much all over – or at least will be by October 2016, when the second deadline arrives. Don’t count on it, cautions Ruth Wandhöfer, global head, regulatory & market strategy, Citi Transaction Services.

Company Announcements
GFT moves into Italian market with Sempla acquisition

GFT Technologies has taken an 80% stake in Italian IT consultancy Sempla for an undisclosed cash sum. It has the option to acquire the remainder of the company after five years.

Bell ID releases secure cloud NFC tool

Dutch software company Bell ID has released a new tool that aims to simplify the provision of NFC mobile services, including mobile payment. The firm’s secure element in the cloud manages keys, certificates and NFC credentials in a remote environment rather than in the mobile device; the idea is to provide app issuers with the [...]

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Features
Next level: the changing securities markets
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The securities markets are changing rapidly in the face of regulation and technology shifts, and none more so than the fixed income markets.

Stars of the south
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Brazil, according to a long-standing joke, is the country of the future and always will be. Founded by a mixture of Portuguese explorers and colonists, indigenous peoples, and European and African immigrants, Latin America’s largest country boasts a population of 200 million and a GDP that eclipsed that of the UK in 2011. The country’s banking infrastructure reflects both its rapid rise in recent years and its historic status as an emerging market.

ISO 20022 – A Hero for Our Times
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ISO 20022 has been hailed as the lingua franca in payments and securities for some years now. It offers great potential for re-engineering the payments industry, and for process improvement, but for a standard that promises so much it is still relatively unknown.

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Merck’s Jorg Bermuller on the challenges facing corporate treasurers
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Jorg Bermuller,  Head of Cash and Risk Management at Merck, says that regulation is one of the main [...]

ING’s Mark Buitenhek on the Challenges facing Transaction Banks
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Mark Buitenhek, global head of payments and cash management at ING, describes how simplification, SEPA, security and service are the  principal issues facing transaction banks, along with regulation.

Out of Office
Duel in The Sun …
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Temenos execs were surprised when a group of attractive young women started approaching delegates outside its annual user conference in Abu Dhabi this week. The delegates – existing and potential bank customers – were being tempted by the offer of cocktails in the adjacent hotel, and the prospect of helicopter rides.

Scaling new depths
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News that two Argentine climbers are planning mobile banking exploits on the slopes of the world’s tallest mountain, Mount Everest in the Himalayas, reveals the lengths to which banks will go to gain publicity for mobile payments technology.

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