This paper studies whether high-frequency trading (HFT) increases the execution costs of institutional investors. We use technology upgrades that lower the latency of the London Stock Exchange to obtain variation in the level of HFT over time. Following upgrades, the level of HFT increases. Around these shocks to HFT, as far as can [...]
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Highlights: Financial services firms will spend between USD 270 billion and USD 460 billion on IT in 2013 globally. IT cost figures in banking are estimates and differ substantially between different sources. Posted on December 20th, 2012
Publisher: FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) Topics: IT technologies, marketing, risk management Supervisory Insights is published by the FDIC’s Division of Risk Management Supervision to promote sound principles and best practices for bank supervision. Mobile Payments: An Evolving Landscape Mobile payments have the potential to significantly change how consumers pay for goods and services. As is the case with any new banking product or service, [...] Posted on December 16th, 2012
Publisher: FSB (Financial Stability Board) Topics: financial intermediation, financial regulation, IT technologies This is the fourth of a series of notes on the implementation of the legal entity identifier (LEI) initiative. Posted on December 12th, 2012
The payments transformation summary report explores a range of key issues and challenges that matter to the payments sector providing keen insight and valuable advice along the way. In this report, KPMG brought together some of the industry’s top payments professionals to share their insight into how China’s payments sector is transforming and [...] 61 pages
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