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Waiting for an Asteroid - the Future of Retail Stockbroking - An Interview with Geoffrey Hoodless Retail Stockbroking has had a massive resilience to modern trends and innovations, but would anyone seriously set up a new retail stockbroker today, when it looks like the business is on its last legs. Thus, I was intrigued to learn - when I spoke to Geoff Hoodless, one of the founders of Stockbroker Hoodless Brennan, which was successful through the late nineties and early 2000 and was eventually purchased by TD Waterhouse - of his decision to set up a new online retail stockbroker "The Share Republic". So to get his views on retail stockbroking and some of the challenges it faces was an opportunity not to be missed... Read More		Subscribe for Newsletter You can subscribe free of charge to receive our Newsletter. Click here to subscribe
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New Corporate Actions Accreditation for Financial Institutions B.I.S.S. Research announces a joint venture agreement with STP Consulting Solutions, the corporate actions specialists based in the North America, to produce an American version of the B.I.S.S. Corporate Actions benchmarking process and accreditation. The accreditation has been designed for all types of financial institutions that have corporate actions operations, as well as corporate actions software and service suppliers to the American market. It will provide important collateral for internal and external audit, which has been independently verified by corporate actions experts. The boards of financial services firms can attain detailed knowledge of a very complex area of operations, providing information on their firm's systems and controls and thereby exercising corporate governance... Read more	FATCA Accreditation Launched B.I.S.S. Research announced today a joint venture with Globe Tax Services, Inc. (GlobeTax), the world's leading tax reclaim and FATCA implementation experts, for the launch of a new B.I.S.S. FATCA Accreditation. The FATCA Accreditation has been produced to assist financial services firms to achieve FATCA compliance across an enterprise by identifying strengths and weaknesses in their systems and procedures and establishing a corporate standard. Read more GlobeTax Powers the B.I.S.S. FATCA Accreditation Program Read more Click here to learn more about how FATCA affects all FIs and related suppliers of software systems	Bell Tolls for Corporate Data via Twitter - An Alternative View A better use of RBS Is LEI getting bogged down? Technology A Charmed Experience City Messengers Social Media & Corporate Governance City Managers - Part 3 Breakthrough growth for SMEs FCA includes technology City Managers - part 2 Should the London Stock Exchange buy NYSE Euronext? City Managers - part 1  40 years on Read more blogs & articles  By Gary Wright, CEO, B.I.S.S. Research
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City View: High APRs are not only found in Payday Loans Article by Simon Culhane, FCSI, Chief Executive, CISI Can Alternatives to Issuer Paid Rating Agency Compensation Succeed? Dangers Lurking in ‘Nominee' Shareholder Accounts UK Lags Continental Europe in Shareholder Activism Tables Articles By Roger Aitken, Associate Analyst Read more Industry Insights	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	Choice & Competition in Post-Trade Matching The Case for Cost Reduction This discussion paper commissioned by Salerio has been produced to investigate the pros and cons of bilateral matching within financial institutions (FIs) against central matching by organisations supplying third party services.  Financial Services firms are facing increased transaction costs and volatile volumes that are currently at a decade low. To date, the matching of transactions has mainly been a dual operation, with internal matches covering both front and middle offices to produce a transaction record, which is then matched externally. This is essentially a doubling up of costs, but ... For more information or to request a copy click here More white papers For further information or to request a copy please click on the link above
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Latest Report now available:Is T2S beneficial to the market & investors? 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	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.	Vermeg: The story continues A B.I.S.S. Accreditation Report featuring MegaCor from Vermeg Financial Services Firms click here to request a complimentary copy. This report provides a Corporate and Product Overview of Vermeg and its corporate actions system MegaCor. It also records the B.I.S.S. independent benchmarking results for the different benchmark categories that are deemed to be essential in a full corporate actions system. The high quality of MegaCor's functionality to process corporate actions has been demonstrated to the Analyst.
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B.I.S.S Research in joint venture with RFPConnect Vermeg gains top billing for MegaCorTM in 2012 benchmarking Discussion paper on central transaction matching alternatives to achieve T+2 Post-Trade Forum T2S report published  FATCA Accreditation launched 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	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