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Latest Reports	Blogs	Events
Now Published B.I.S.S. 2011 Corporate Actions System Accreditation Reports on: Information Mosaic, SmartStream and Vermeg. Financial Services Firms click here to request a complimentary copies B.I.S.S. 2011 Corporate Actions Industry Report Annual report on the status of corporate actions in the international securities markets. A Complimentary Copy is available to employees at Financial Services firms (excludes representatives from vendors, consultancies and other suppliers). Click here for further information and/or to request a copy. In Safe Hands: Custody System Accreditation Report Featuring 'Megara' from Vermeg The report includes an assessment of Megara's shared functionality and shared modules and outlines the analyst's conclusions and benchmarking results, as well as highlighting important aspects of operational risk and regulatory demands... Financial Services Firms click here to request your complimentary copy B.I.S.S. 2010 Settlement System Accreditation Report Financial Services Firms click here to request a complimentary copy	Short Selling Outsourcing Takes A Blow The Value of European CCPs SaaS Regulations and the IT Rat-Race The Cloud is hovering this Summer Outsource or insource? Clearing House consolidation is via interoperability Prepare to repel all borders! Says Captain Jack Sparrow  Post Trade a Nirvana? Systemic Risk in Clearing Houses - an Oxymoron? Read other Blogs on Finextra Read other Blogs on Swiftcommunity.net	Post Trade Forum Debate 22nd Feb 2012 Should Short Selling be Banned?  Short selling has been pilloried as one of the main causes of market volatility, with politicians regularly banning short selling when they believe it right. However, manipulation of markets causes a false market, which threatens the free market and its ability to find the right level. This is surely not a good state of affairs for Investors.
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A blitzkrieg leading to a new world order  We are in the middle of a perfect financial storm with sovereign debt and banks very closely linked, which has required governments to batter tax payers worldwide to try ...  Culture created UBS Rogue Trader but he will not be the last!  A few weeks ago the world heard of yet another rogue trader at UBS, with the bank picking up the tab to some $2.3bn, estimated loss, but this could... Fiddling While Europe Burns  This week we have seen another example of huge ineptitude by Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel as yet another crisis meeting ends with political agreement but damn all else... Are Compliance Officers Now Plugged into Mobile Phone Regs? Compliance officers at City firms were certainly out in their droves this week at a call recording, fraud detection and analytics event hosted at by Business Systems a recognised UK leader in phone recording for compliant purposes... The lack of leadership in the financial markets  At a recent conference the sorry state of leadership and decision making capability in today's financial markets was perfectly illustrated. FIX Protocol .... Sants or Sinner at the FSA? Hector Sants has announced his departure from the FSA after three monumental years that has seen the finance industry almost ... Trade Reporting; all at sea You would have though that trade reporting would be a simple thing with the regulatory organisation specifying what ... MiFID fails to deliver Latest surveys are beginning to show clearly that MiFID is failing to achieve one of the most important objectives of ... Building from scratch to change the industry I have written before about EMXCo the messaging system for Unitised Funds owned by Euroclear and how they continue ... Directives do not work for efficient markets In recent years we have witnessed a huge influx of political objectives in Europe and not much less reform in the ... Read other articles	Plaudits for TLM Corporate ActionsTM Exceptional Performance Vermeg scores again with MegaCorTM Accreditation  Flying Colours for Information Mosaic New research into mobile recording solutions reveals financial sector confusion Financial Services Firms Under Threat From Mobile Devices B.I.S.S. Research Calls For Industry Change   Deutsche Börse /NYSE-Euronext ‘Merger Rationale' and Success Questioned Investment Banks ‘Not Engaging' in Mobile Phone Recording Three Leading Corporate Action Systems	Thought leadership from Industry Professionals Do we rate the credit rating agencies?  By Roger Aitken Creating tomorrow's Corporate Action System Today By Information Mosaic Migrating to ISO20022; Are Firms missing out on opportunity By Fiona Hamilton, VP,EMEA, Volante  Is there a need to Standardise Corporate Actions? By Daniel Thieke, VP, DTCC More Industry Insights
White papers	B.I.S.S.  Accreditation News
Planning a Secure Mobile Communications Strategy white paper Faced with greater regulation, ever-growing communication media and an increasingly mobile workforce, the need to adopt an effective mobile communications strategy has never been greater... more   Evaluating mobile phone recording architecture Quantifying The Risks In Corporate Actions Mobile Phone Recording:Issues & Costs Uncovered Custody Relationships: A Carthaginian Approach To Protect & Detect:An evaluation of Compliance System Requirements More white papers For further information or to request a copy please click on the links above	Vermeg Attains Industry Accreditation for MegaCorTM MegaCustody from Vermeg Accredited after Custody System Benchmarking TLM Corporate Actions transformation lauded in Industry Accreditation MegaraTM Achieves World First IMActions Achieves Accreditation for Corporate Actions Processing Vermeg SmartStream Vermeg Information Mosaic