A collection of news, stories, experiences and practical knowledge aimed at helping our clients address some of the issues they face in today’s market
CHARLES POST
With trillions of dollars’ worth of financial contracts referencing LIBOR, with maturities past 2021, the greatest challenge for organizations as they transition away from IBOR will be in identifying all references within their organization and determining the total downstream impact.
Distilling the informational critical path, without losing the bigger picture.
STEFAN JELLINEK, stefan.jellinek@jdxconsulting.com
As 2020 approaches so does the implementation of the transactional reporting phase of Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR); another element in the myriad of regulation imposed by the European Commission following the 2008 financial crisis.
TAHIR ZAFAR
In the 1930’s John Maynard Keynes, one of the greatest economists of our time, wrote an essay titled the “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren”.
Maureen Doyle-Spare, JDX’s head of ‘US Consulting Services — Asset and Wealth Management’ recently participated in Ditto TV’s ‘DISRUPT & ADVANCE’ webinar series, which explores how technology is constantly changing the world around us.
LUCY DORR | MAUREEN DOYLE-SPARE
At a time when many industries are focused on simplifying their business by streamlining processes to improve the customer experience, the banking industry continues to introduce more complexity into its operations.
MAUREEN DOYLE-SPARE
Increasing margin and cost pressures on buy-side participants continues to challenge firms to find ways of improving their performance by driving organisational transformation, focused on reducing costs and reevaluating growth strategies, in an attempt to differentiate themselves in a highly competitive market.
JESSICA HOPKIRK
Since April 2000, via IR35, the UK Tax Authorities (HMRC) have sought to combat tax avoidance amongst ‘disguised employees'. HMRC are targeting individuals supplying services via intermediary companies—such as Personal Service Companies (PSC’s)—initially in the public sector April 2017, HMRC have since shifted focus onto the private sector.
Thriving in a hyper-connected world was the big theme of Sibos 2019 and it was fantastic to see so many organisations, over 11,000 attendees from 150 countries, gathered together in London with customers, collaboration & digital transformation at the forefront of the agenda.
RUPERT JACKSON
Since 2012, JDX has experienced rapid growth as a provider of flexible resourcing solutions to financial services companies, market intermediaries and FinTech companies. With a compound annual growth rate of 47% over the last 3 years we now have 700 staff in 6 locations globally...
HENRI PEGERON, STEVEN CROTCH
Over the past decade, data standardisation ‘took a backseat’ relative to other regulatory driven priorities such as data transparency, reporting and accuracy. The financial services industry was focused predominantly on upgrading technology infrastructure and the associated pipelines for data, with less time spent on establishing how to standardise the format of what was coming through the pipes.
LOUELLA WILLIAMS
As the prospect of a no-deal Brexit looms nearer many firms have been implementing the final steps in their contingency plans to ensure there is minimal damage to existing contracts and client relationships.
HARRIET BARLOW
The UK legal system is not built upon a single code of conduct, but rather has evolved to reflect changes in society’s culture and values.
MARKUS BUHMANN
We hear a lot of talk about how, why and when organisations collect data from individuals.
DANIEL D’COSTA
In 2017, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB) , the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) ,
BY IMOGEN GAMMIDGE
Many sectors of the financial services industry have been early and eager adopters of technology,
BY KEITH PRITCHARD
This article was first published in Global Banking & Finance, July 2018.
BY STUART MCCLYMONT
This article was first published on TABB Forum in March 2019.
Much has been said in recent years, and quite rightly so,
BY STUART MCCLYMONT, March 2019
This article was first published on TABB Forum, March 2019
BY MICHAEL ROBERTSON
With little over a month until the UK is scheduled to leave the European Union, JDX continues to monitor some of the key challenges which could impact financial services companies in the event of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit.
