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Latest Research Reports   Now Available   Complimentary reports for Asset Managers, Banks, Broker/Dealers & Custodians.   These complimentary reports have been extracted from the full B.I.S.S. 2008 Corporate Actions, Corporate Finance and MiFID Benchmarking Reports and 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 complimentary report    Click here for details or to request a full report Whitepapers etc Financial Services Mobiles   SEPA moving against the tide   MiFID a market examination   The Financial Crisis: How will it affect payment systems?	B.I.S.S.  Accreditation News Tripwire Enterprise scores with B.I.S.S. MiFID Accreditation London, UK 16th December 2008 – B.I.S.S. Research, the exclusive research company offering a unique benchmarking of services and systems in the financial services sector, today announced that Tripwire Enterprise has achieved the B.I.S.S. MiFID Accreditation......   Vermeg Client Support ‘par excellence’ reports   TCS BNCS sets new targets for STP exceeding   Risk Management highlighted as CAMA excels   TCS BNCS Shines in Corporate Finance	Events Corporate Actions Summit November 2009 Brussels Press Releases B.I.S.S. Research announces partnership with Endeavour Events   New Corporate Actions Advisory Service   Settlement Systems Benchmarking Launched   SmartStream enter TLM Corporate Actions for Benchmarking
Latest  Articles 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 USA. All mainly, have laudable objectives, to improve the markets for the benefit of the customer or consumer, but tend to bring high costs and interminable debate before implementation. The old saying was ‘you can’t buck the markets’ but this can now be modified to ‘you can’t change the markets’........   BT secure messaging solution looks a clear winner As Europe continues to evolve as a single financial market the securities industry is struggling to bring harmony into its post trade operations. MiFID has been very important in creating the potential for a single securities market but is incapable of completely fulfilling its objectives without fundamental changes in post trade operations of both buy side and sell side enterprises....   Be prepared for the regulatory Tsunami   The Banking Crisis and the Lost Trillions   Asset Servicing Risk Reduction   Risk; future ramifications for the finance industry   When central means distributed   The End of Investment Banking As We Know It   Read other articles	Latest Blogs Data Security Myth 26/05/09 There has been no end of stories over recent years about the ability of companies and organisations to maintain their data security. Bad news always travels faster than good and we will only ever know about the instances where data security is breached rather than the majority of occasions when data is secure but the quest to achieve total security is ongoing.......   What are they doing at LCH.Clearnet? 15/05/2009  The banks consortium bid for LCH.Clearnet has not been a knockout according to the noises coming from the LCH.Clearnet board. Rather it has produced a rather strange response where the board would like to cherry pick parts of it and try to integrate them into their own plan......   Duopoly Network Barrier 01/05/2009 At a recent BT breakfast seminar a number of software vendors presented their own perspectives on the Euroclear harmonisation project and how it could benefit the UK securities market. The potential consolidation of messages was best illustrated by the Progress Software presentation that clearly out...   Deal off between DTCC & LCH.Clearnet that’s really bad news 30/4/09  One of the best bits of good news last year found in a gloom laden industry was that the world’s largest clearing house was to merge with one of European largest clearing houses. The opportunity to consolidate international and domestic clearing between the USA and Europe as it turned out was unfortunately too good to be true. As...   Beginning to turn the tide   Fantastic news at last!   Bonuses! You got to be kidding   EU Payment Services Directive   Cost v risk; a catch 22 situation   Could there be a real rival to SWIFT?   Thomson Reuters Hub looks the business   Avoiding a depression   Read other Blogs on Finextra   Read other Blogs on Swiftcommunity.net