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Sept / Oct 2003
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Introduction:
TOP
MIND FOR EVERY FINANCIAL INSTITUTION
Before any of us can assert ourselves
on that world economic stage, we must first be certain that
things behind the curtain are in good order
FOREWORD
News:
A round up of what's been
happening in the market
place
Meeting Point:
LUXEMBOURG - LOOKING AHEAD TO
MORE PROSPEROUS TIMES
ALFI fully supports FEFSI, la
Fédération Européenne des Fonds et
Sociétés d'Investissement, in its battle against
economic barriers
ARE HEDGE
FUNDS MISSING OUT ON CLASS ACTIONS?
Did your fund get buried by the collapse
of Enron, WorldCom, Dynegy, Global Crossing or any of the
other hundreds of companies that plummeted due to financial
chicanery?
Country Profile:
THE LUXEMBOURG
FINANCIAL CENTRE AFTER FEIRA
What changes will really take place
and what will they mean? What does the new Directive stipulate?
What will happen to banking secrecy?
CUSTODY IN GREECE
Custodian banks in Greece will only
survive if they demonstrate an ability to adapt to changes
quickly and efficiently
ASSET MANAGEMENT - THE FINNISH
WAY
Finland and Sweden have spearheaded
the technological revolution, and much has been developed
to improve customer contact, reporting etc
UNLEASHING THE POTENTIAL OF THE
EASTERN CARIBBEAN SECURITIES EXCHANGE
The ECSE has invested heavily in
technology to ensure an efficient and modern market
EMERGING
MARKETS
A round up of what's happening in
emerging markets around the Asia Pacific region
Industry Insight:
CUSTODY
IN EUROPE
The main disadvantage is the inefficiency
of the European market for cross-border trades, but its
main advantage is the possession of institutions that work
to resolve this
CUSTODIAN
RATINGS AND PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKING
Institutional investors have difficulty
in the evaluation and selection of custodians, and have
an even more difficult task in monitoring the performance
of custodians
JERSEY -
AN IDEAL BASE FOR HEDGE FUNDS, AT LAST!
When one speaks of world domination,
one often thinks of crazed and thuggish villains from Ian
Fleming's famous and much filmed James Bond series
EUROPEAN
AND U.S. HEDGE FUNDS: SUCCEEDING IN BOTH MARKETS
As hedge funds become a more generally
accepted asset class, the administrator of the future will
need to service ever increasing numbers of investors demanding
greater levels of transparency
ENABLING
TECHNOLOGIES FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES
Web Services create a consistent
communications framework for code blocks, helping to ensure
they will be less error-prone (and hence more reliable),
less complex and more highly interoperable with other code
blocks
DEMONSTRATING
THE BUSINESS CASE FOR PKI
The first applications have therefore
contributed to the operational cost of setting up the solution,
while the growing number of applications for which it can
be used will ensure ROI into the future
IDENTITY MANAGEMENT IN FINANCIAL
SERVICES
The report makes three strong conclusions
about the readiness of the Liberty and SAML specifications
to meet the needs of the financial services industry
THE INTERNATIONAL BOND MARKET
AT 40
On 16 July this year, the international
bond market celebrated its 40th birthday. This date is the
anniversary of the issue of what is considered by most professionals
to be the very first Eurobond, a US$15 million loan for
Autostrada
SWIFTNet:
THE MIGRATION
SWIFT has planned the migration for
completion by the end of 2004. By that time all SWIFT users
will have migrated onto the new SWIFTNet infrastructure
Reference:
DIARY OF
EVENTS
Important dates for your diary
DIRECTORY
Associations, IFC's, Central Banks
and Technology
G30 RECOMMENDATIONS
In January the Group published 'Global
Clearing and Settlement - A Plan of Action' which sets out
20 recommendations
THE GIOVANNINI
GROUP
The follow-up report, released on
April 16, 2003, presents a strategy for the removal of those
15 barriers
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