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Post Trade Forum Reports		Featured Case Study
These reports are available to attendees and members of the Post Trade Forum Group on LinkedIn. Membership is open to all employees of regulated financial services firms. If you are not already a member Click here to request admittence to the group PTF Debate: Exchanges versus MTFs - The Future of the European Markets PTF Debate: Technology versus Standards to Mitigate Corporate Actions Risk PTF Debate: 21st Century Outsourcing v Internalisation PTF Debate: The Future of Clearing Houses in Europe		Sharefunds provides fund accounting and pricing services to Fund Managers across the UK as well as comprehensive support for Open Ended Investment Companies (OEICs) and Unit Trusts. The Business Challenge Strengthen security price validation process, Increase security price accuracy, Eliminate manual intervention, Transition ShareFunds' clients seamlessly, Leverage efficiencies in data collection and validation. Read Case Study
Latest Reports		White papers
Now Published B.I.S.S. 2012 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. 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		Planning a Secure Mobile Communications Strategy white paper  Evaluating mobile phone recording architecture Quantifying The Risks In Corporate Actions More white papers For further information or to request a copy please click on the links above
Latest  Articles
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
B.I.S.S.  Accreditation News		Press Releases
Christian Cure,Vermeg receives B.I.S.S. 2011 Corporate Actions Accreditation for MegaCor Edwin de Pauw, Euroclear presents SmartSream with B.I.S.S. 2011 Corporate Actions Accreditation for TLM CA at Post Trade Forum Information Mosaic team recieve B.I.S.S. 2011 Corporate Actions Accreditation for IMActions Vermeg SmartStream Information Mosaic		Vermeg's MegaCorTM First Up For Corporate Actions System Accreditation 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