Disrupting Financial Markets (2) — Market Infrastructure In the first article in our series on “Disrupting Financial Markets”, we discussed the advantages of digital securities and how…
Stock Borrowing what is it and why? At its most basic level, Stock Borrowing is the temporary transfer of an asset from an owner to a borrower…
Operational Risk. 3 final observations on the 2011 $2.3B loss at UBS caused by a rogue trader. Insight form the coal face; in 2011 UBS had a $2.3B loss created by rogue trader Kweku Adoboli. Beyond the…
Why Most Institutional Investors Still Don’t Lend At first glance the €21 trillion of securities available for loan at the end of 2019 seems a large figure…
Effective and efficient capital markets in an increasingly digitised world The past few months have seen a real shift in the way we are all living and working. Many of…
The need to unlock data in financial markets The data supply chain and commercial contracts in Financial Markets remain virtually unchanged since the last century. There are still…
The Future of Ripple (XRP) The blockchain and crypto industry thrives on the discussion about the future and few firms are more embedded in this…