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New White Paper: Custody Relationships: A Carthaginian Approach To request a copy click here

Custodians can never be accused of not investing in their business. Over the years countless budgets have been spent in building better systems. But it has been specific systems which have sucked in most of the investment for development, tending to be centred on ...

Latest Publications The 2009 Corporate Actions Industry Report 2009 Corporate Actions Benchmarking Reports    Complimentary reports for Asset Managers, Banks, Broker/Dealers & Custodians. These complimentary reports highlight the vendors and their products strengths and weaknesses. They also detail the benchmarking results and conclusions, but  the do not contain the vendors verified responses to our RFI, which is part of the benchmarking process, these are only available in the Full Reports.  Click here to request a report Whitepapers etc To Protect & Detect: An evaluation of Compliance System Requirements Financial Services Mobiles SEPA moving against the tide  MiFID a Market Examination The Financial Crisis: How will it affect payment systems? For further information or to request a copy please click on the links above B.I.S.S.  Accreditation News Information Mosaic enters corporate actions automation solution SmartStream enters TLM Corporate Actions into 2010 Benchmarking Vermeg enters Megacor into the B.I.S.S. 2010 Corporate Actions Benchmarking Latest  Articles 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	Latest Blogs Are Custodians missing the point? 18/6/2010 Custodians are clearly at the centre of the securities industry with massive influence on the efficiency or not of the global markets. Through their sub custodial networks the Global Custodian is without doubt ... Whatever happened to the customer is always right? 18/6/2010 If there is one thing financial services organisations should always do, it is to actively maintain their client relationships. It is a core function and can make or break a firm. However, in recent years, it has ... The Best Execution Myth 30/3/2010 MiFID has been in for a few years now and it's had a tremendous impact on European markets but unfortunately not all good. The very laudable objectives that MiFID addresses really cause the ... The neutering of decision makers 29/03/2010 At last weeks Fix Protocol (FPL) conference there was the expected presentations from all the usual suspects. Expert people from leading organisations in the securities market all debated the problems of ... The eternal coin or eternal value 26/03/2010 This week's debate at the Long Finance roundtable, the influential think tank of academics associated with the finance industry presented the "Search for the Eternal Coin" to an engaged ... House prices about to crash 18/03/2010 At a recent roundtable of top economists at the Long Finance Group together with a think tank of leading City professionals, the over whelming view was that house prices were certain to crash. Timing was debated ...  eBam and Corporate Customers 22/02/2010 With all the fuss around banking services for their corporate customers or should I say lack of, the news that Bank of America Merrill Lynch is working with IdenTrust to solve ancient operational client data ... Post Bank a natural way to repeal acts of destruction 17/02/10 The call by the Small Business Institute for the creation of a Post Bank to offer basic business services to small enterprises looks like a winner. Research has also shown that individual account holders at high ... Read other Blogs on Finextra Read other Blogs on Swiftcommunity.net	Industry Insights Thought leadership from Industry Professionals Gerard Bermingham Will XBRL And Issuer Announcements Improve The Quality Of Corporate Action Data? Read Article Press Releases Information Mosaic enters corporate actions automation solution SmartStream enters TLM Corporate Actions into 2010 Benchmarking Vermeg enters Megacor into 2010 Corporate Actions Benchmarking