For Collateral Management, Automation Is Key
By James Rundle
Published November 3 2011 Buy-Side Technology
With the review of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid II), Basel III, the Dodd–Frank Act and other regulations affecting the mechanisms and processes of trading across most major financial centers, firms and institutions are increasingly looking to end-to-end, highly automated solutions to manage their activities. Chief among them is collateral management, where sophisticated platforms and engines are being driven to replace error-prone, Microsoft Excel-based spreadsheets as a minimum form of risk mitigation.
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