On the 9 December 2019, the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR) became applicable to all Financial Services and Markets Act (FSMA) authorised firms; including banks, building societies, asset managers, investment firms, insurers, mortgage providers, consumer credit firms and sole traders. So 1 year on, given the interruptions in 2020 and the FCA enabled ‘3 […]

  Is Green Finance really Clean Finance or are there still brown undertones? Green Finance is rapidly becoming a mainstream component of investment activity at every level, with Green Bonds and loans forming a significant presence in Investors’ portfolios. But is Green Finance really Clean Finance or are there still brown undertones? Our panel of leading Green […]

Solving the Problem of Reference Data  The problem of reference data, in terms of  “dirty data”, has been estimated to cost the industry between 15% -25% of  its revenue, but improving the quality has posed significant challenges for the industry for decades. Despite investment in new technologies and collaborations across the financial markets. The ability […]

Blockchain and distributed ledger technology came to the fore with the appearance and growth of cryptocurrencies, so whatever happened to blockchain? The narrative that started spreading at some point in 2013 was that blockchain technology should be decoupled from bitcoin, and used for more than exchanging digital currency. Cryptocurrency units could be inscribed with additional […]

Cybersecurity: Is your home the new office? “Working From Home” exposes the security landscape of your organisation: In this session our experts, Jason Harrell, Executive Director, Technology Risk Management, Head of Business and Government Cybersecurity Partnerships, Aman Sood, Chair, ISITC EUROPE Cybersecurity Forum and Michael Cheshire,  CX Transformation EMEA, Verizon Enterprise Solutions talk about how COVID-19 has proven […]

Accelerated digital transformation is driving increasingly complex and distributed digital infrastructures; across on-premises, private cloud and public cloud platforms. The reality is that most organisations find themselves in this ‘hybrid reality’ – and will continue to do so for some time to come. Organisations are investing significant amounts of money into building modern dynamic hybrid […]

ISITC TalkTime Podcast: Getting to grips with resilience in the Cloud ISITC Europe talks to Alasdair Hodge, Chief Architect at Cloudsoft about getting to grips resilience in the Cloud. This Podcast is a source of important information, for senior professionals, within Capital Markets firms. Enabling them to understand, some of the benefits and uses of […]

Downtime is expensive. The average cost of unplanned application downtime at Tier One financial institutions exceeds $2.5bn every year, according to the IDC. The Operational Resilience of your business depends now more than ever on the availability of your IT systems. Critical systems and the applications which support them need to be available at all times, […]

Death by Cyber Attack Webinar The ability of cyber threats to compromise information systems is an ongoing danger to all organisations, however  an emerging threat presents a new challenge, cyber-attacks that may cause physical harm to systems with the potential to kill the business. Financial services are among the most attractive targets for cyber attackers […]

ISITC TalkTime Podcast: Post-Trade Efficiency and Transformation ISITC Europe talks to Bob Santangelo from Broadridge about the need for post-trade efficiency and transformation. The discussion centres around the impact that the global pandemic has had on the need for banks and brokers to transform their processes to achieve greater post trade efficiency. Which has been exacerbated […]