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Current Trends in Asset and Wealth Management Industry
Environment
The industry is turning out enviable performance year after year
Overall profit margins have remained remarkably stable (around 30%?)
Customer needs are changing fundamentally
Looming retirement of demographic profile in some economies...
Current trends in FX markets
FX Markets are the backbone of international financial markets.
An insight into the current trends in global FX markets reveals an interesting reading as under:
Markets
Global FX turnover ($4.2 Trillion daily) gone up by over 25% over April...
Bilateral and Triparty Collateral Management
The recent financial markets crises have heightened and increased focus on collateralization.
Collateralization is a process where a borrower pledges an asset as recourse or cover or a security to the lender for facilities or limits or credits...
Complexity Reduction through waste management
Yes. Complexity Reduction can be achieved in banking industry through adoption of Financial Technology.
Normally wastes can occur in both hardware and software. For the purpose of this discussion, we shall focus only on software wastes.
Financial...
Self Regulation is the Best Pill for all Ills of the Banking Industry
Volcker, Vicker or combined global regulations, one may aspire for any or many, but nothing will work when the banks themselves want to fail.
Most of the banks during the recent crises behaved as if they were the masters of the market place...
Rehypothecation (ppt)
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Stock Markets and Status of Economy
“It is usually agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges” wrote John Maynard Keynes in 1935.
Despite this dig, Keynes also recognized that stock markets...
Order Types in Market Place
For effective dealing in markets, resort to order placement is very important. For this, one should be familiar with different types of orders prevailing in different markets.
This post, tries to capture some basic details of various orders...
Gold – Weights & Measures Pricing
The traditional unit of weight for Gold is the Troy Ounce of the Anglo Saxon system of weights and measures.
Despite the gradual conversion to the metric system, the troy ounce remains a traditional fixture of the Gold trade and the most important...
Attributes of a Good Collateral
In lending agreements, collateral is a borrower’s pledge of specific property to a lender to secure repayment of loan.
The collateral serves as a protection for a lender against possible default of a borrower – failure to pay either principal...
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