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Reg Rage: UK financial system set for reform
September 2, 2009The UK government has just published proposals for wide-ranging changes to financial regulation. Although the measures will be intrusive, bankers are generally supportive. Writer Michael Imeson
Where next for the derivatives market?
September 2, 2009The fall-out from the Lehman Brothers collapse exposed the true extent of risk in the over-the-counter derivatives market and highlighted the need for change. While there is still no clear path for the market's future, it is not too difficult to anticipate what the Obama administration has in store for the sector. Writer Janet Lewis
Testing times for equity exchanges
September 2, 2009On the surface, it may seem that the EU's 2007 MiFID legislation, which aimed to create a pan-European investment market on a level playing field, has changed little. However, a closer analysis reveals an industry in the process of change, as new upstarts make inroads and traditional exchanges respond with new technology. Writer Chris Skinner
Reg Rage: EU plans better financial supervision
August 4, 2009European law-makers are overhauling the way in which the financial system and the firms that operate within it are supervised. Writer Michael Imeson
Reg Rage: US Treasury to shake up finance rules
July 7, 2009A plan to create a new system of financial regulation in the US has just been announced. Bankers are already pleading for some of the proposals to be modified. Writer Michael Imeson
Reg Rage: EU to cut hedge funds down to size
June 4, 2009EU policymakers have sharpened their shears and launched an attack on hedge fund managers and other alternative investment fund managers. Writer Michael Imeson
The high price of payments
June 4, 2009The global recession has elevated payments processing to near the top of bank chiefs' priority lists, but the industry is going through a fundamental structural change that could lead to a slump in revenues and soaring business costs. Writer Charlie Corbett
Reg Rage: G-20 bullies Swiss bankers into submission
May 5, 2009Switzerland has just caved in to pressure from the big economic powers and relaxed its banking secrecy laws. Some fear this is the beginning of the end of its long tradition of client confidentiality. Writer Michael Imeson
Cash management: Clients and the crisis
May 5, 2009In the fourth of The Banker's Masterclass series, Deutsche Bank's head of cash management, financial institutions, for Germany, Austria and central Europe, Dean Sposito, and Deutsche Bank's head of cash management, financial institutions, for northern Europe, Matt Tuck, talk about how they are helping their clients to navigate the crisis and position themselves for a potential upturn. Writer Charlie Corbett
Dean Sposito, Head of cash management, financial institutions, for Germany, Austria, Central Europe, Deutsche Bank