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Optimism in the world of financial services regulation

It seems that we’re finally making some progress on making the financial markets function more safely. 

After the “flash-crash” of 6 May, US equity market operators have agreed to bring in coordinated circuit-breakers to avoid a repeat of this extreme event. There is widespread agreement...

Regulation: Don't Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater
We are still feeling the repercussions of the "Flash Crash" in the markets. Both the SEC and CFTC have been trying to figure out what happened and what to do about it. Of course the Flash Crash threw salt in the open wound left open from the worst recession since the 20s -- which many still...
Monitoring and surveillance: the route to market transparency

Again this week, capital markets is under the spotlight, with the SEC and Goldman standoff. Just a few weeks ago, the FSA and UK Serious Organised Crime Agency were making multiple arrests for insider trading. Earlier this year Credit Suisse were fined by the New York Stock Exchange for one of their...

Observations from Tradetech 2010

Day one of Tradetech Europe 2010 has nearly finished. I won't be here tomorrow, so here are some thoughts and take-aways from today's event.

It's fair to say that Tradetech is the premier European equities trading and technology event, and thus very relevant for Progress'...

Predictions for increased transparency in Capital Markets

It is my view that one of the most significant causes of the global financial crisis was a lack of transparency in financial markets.  Put simply, that means no one, not regulators or market participants, knew what the size of certain derivatives markets (like credit default swaps) was, who held...

Rumblings in the Cloud

Cloud computing... it's on everyone's mind these days. Personally I think it's a term that has attained such aggrandized acclaim that vendors, analysts, bloggers and anyone with marketing muscle has pulled and stretched its definition to such and extent that it could...
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