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Businesses fear Sepa debit fraud risk
News Cheat Sheets Basel II MiFID Sarbanes-Oxley Financial administrators feel being unprepared for the Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) directives could expose businesses to an increasing level of Direct Debit fraud. [22 Jul 2008]
Banks unprepared for EU payments directive
News FS Cheat Sheets Basel II MiFID Sarbanes-Oxley The cost of complying with the EU Payments Services Directive (PSD) could amount to €6bn over the next 18 months for 30 of the biggest international banks in Europe. [14 Jul 2008]
Bank invests in low latency monitoring
News Cheat Sheets Basel II MiFID Sarbanes-Oxley Global investment bank Credit Suisse is rolling out a monitoring system for its low-latency network. The system will support the bank's need to handle hundreds of thousands of... [23 Jun 2008]
FS sector 'still hot for techies'
News Adam Stokes, operations manager at IT Jobs in the City, said tech roles supporting risk management and sector compliance projects such as MiFID - which came into force in the UK back in November - are helping to keep techies in demand. [03 Jun 2008]
MiFID compliance warning
News Many firms in the financial trading sector are still adopting a 'wait and see' approach to MiFID by going for the cheapest, most basic level of compliance required by regulators. Some of the big investment firms have embraced MiFID more warmly but... [13 Mar 2008]
London Stock Exchange injects competition into post-trade costs
News Cheat Sheets Basel II MiFID Sarbanes-Oxley Its implementation was driven, in part, by the adoption of MiFID directives by the LSE. The London Stock Exchange (LSE) plans to introduce a post-trade router to open up clearing... [04 Feb 2008]
Commerzbank gets ready for Sepa
News Cheat Sheets Basel II MiFID Sarbanes-Oxley Commerzbank is using filtering technology to flag up suspicious payments as part of its preparations for the Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa), due to come into force on 28 January. [15 Jan 2008]
Top 10 financial services stories of the year
News Whether or not the sector would be able to become compliant with the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) by the 1 November deadline was uppermost in many silicon.com readers' minds. Demand was weighted by the need to comply with... [17 Dec 2007]
Stories of the year
News Cheat Sheet: MiFID And as the European investment banking regulation MiFID came into force on 1 November, silicon.com's MiFID Cheat Sheet proved a valuable resource for those affected by it. But one of the biggest stories of 2007 - and not just in... [14 Dec 2007]
Cheques gone by 2018?
News Cheat Sheets Basel II MiFID Sarbanes-Oxley A banking industry consultation on the future of payment mechanisms in the UK is calling for cheques to be completely phased out by 2018. [27 Nov 2007]
MiFID: No big bang - but it's not over yet
News The deadline for MiFID compliance passed without a major hitch in the UK but there's still a lot of work to do say industry experts. MiFID - the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive - came into effect on 1 November and is Europe's effort to... [26 Nov 2007]
LSE back on track after outage
News Read more about how MiFID is shaking up the financial industry Cheat Sheet: MiFID MiFID: The unanswered questions FSA upgrades tech to improve MiFID monitoring MiFID compliance - regulators in the spotlight [08 Nov 2007]
MiFID: It's finally right here, right now
News MiFID, the European investment banking regulation, comes into force today and banks will be hoping their preparation for the big day has paid off. MiFID (the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive) is Europe's attempt to make financial trading... [01 Nov 2007]
Stories of the month - October 2007
News Cheat Sheet: MiFID And with the European investment banking regulation MiFID due to come into force on 1 November, October also saw renewed interest in silicon.com's MiFID Cheat Sheet. This month Vista, The IT Crowd, wi-fi and naked PCs all proved... [31 Oct 2007]
Credit crunch hits tech contractors
News Read about how MiFID is shaking up the financial industry Cheat Sheet: MiFID MiFID: The unanswered questions FSA upgrades tech to improve MiFID monitoring MiFID compliance - regulators in the spotlight [31 Oct 2007]
