Back office
Planned sale prompts hard look at post-trade firms
Plans to sell MarkitServ fuel warnings about middleware vendors’ future
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
Isda’s O’Malia: back-office costs are ‘killing’ swap dealers
Banks set to begin testing Isda’s common domain model for trade lifecycle processes
Welcome to the new Isda – more ambitious than the old one
Swaps body announces aim to expand its role from legal contracts to data and process at annual gathering
Innovation of the year: Energy Settlement Network by Aquilon Energy Services
Energy Risk Awards 2017: Aquilon's cloud-based settlement platform redefines automation
US public pensions failing on operational risk
Outdated systems and lax controls expose pension plans to 'operational failure'
Energy trading technology moves gradually into the cloud
Energy firms and software vendors making greater use of cloud computing
Technology House of the Year: TriOptima
Emir and Dodd-Frank are seeing energy companies flock to TriOptima
Out of office: banks debate merits of shared processing
Sliding profits are prompting banks to take a new look at an old idea – an industry run back-office utility
Ice Brent changes prove a hard pill to swallow
Ice says a plan to shift the expiry dates of futures and options on Brent crude oil is an important fix that will tighten the link between the physical and futures markets. However, carrying out the necessary changes could be painful for market…
Brent options trading disrupted by Ice expiry date shift
Proposals to ensure convergence between futures and physical Brent cause firms to avoid trading long-dated options
Northern Trust to shadow BNY Mellon at Bridgewater
Northern Trust appointed to replicate middle- and back-office functions of existing administrator BNY Mellon at $140bn hedge fund
Energy Risk's 2012 Software Survey and Rankings
Taking a targeted approach
Dealers face up to OTC clearing's tech revolution
All systems go
Dealers face up to OTC clearing's tech revolution
Clearing the way for IT
Regulators could focus on ETFs after UBS losses
Regulators could take some time to change the rules surrounding the exchange-traded products involved in the UBS rogue-trading losses, but banks might see an impact soon in capital terms
Curing the culture of fraud
Internal affairs
Isda AGM: Fed letters 'not a waste of time', banks argue
Industry defends decision to set up recently sidelined TriOptima rates repository and argues voluntary commitments have value
Risk software survey 2010
Altered states
ICFA talks Target2- Securities with the ECB
Jean-Michel Godeffroy, chairman of the T2S programme board at the European Central Bank, talks through the future of the settlement platform with Melanie White of ICFA Magazine
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