Industry Research and Publications

Here is a selection of some of our publications and research. For more details on any of these topics, or to particpate in our regular surveys please contact us.

NEW - Market Abuse/Insider Trading

Our latest survey looks at Market Abuse e.g. insider trading to get a clearer picture of the market's current and future views on this topic. Click here to add your view to the survey

FS Bulletin
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Risk Management

• John Cant (MPI MD) blogs on quantitative vs qualitative risk measures  More >>
• MPI Europe conducted a survey in 2009 of senior people in risk management to gain a better understanding of the view of the market on this important topic and to further inform and influence the wider debate. More >>
• MPIE article on Enterprise Risk Management published in SAS Risk Journal More >>

Equity Market Change

• CSAs set for dramatic change - MPIE article in Buy Side Technology  More >>
• MiFID and RegNMS - This comparison paper was developed with Sun More >>
• Commission sharing/unbundling MPIE research on solving commission sharing issues More >>

Payments

• A new survey for 2009 carried out by MPI Europe on behalf of industry information site fastpayments.co.uk confirms that scheme members have successfully implemented this innovative payment method, yet there is still significant work required to realise the full benefits of Faster Payments, particularly in terms of widespreasd adoption of the scheme, as well as in the development of more effective security measures. For more details please contact us
• June Faster Payments Bulletin: In conjunction with FastPayments.co.uk this is the June FastPayments bulletin. More >>
• Faster Payments Survey 2008: fastpayments.co.uk sent out a survey questionnaire to over 90 banks and building societies in the UK, all of whom should be affected by the UK Faster Payments scheme. Responses were received from a wide variety of organisations including large high street clearing, building societies and UK subsidiaries of overseas banks. More >>
• SEPA: This paper on SEPA was produced with FastPayments.co.uk More >>

Supply Chain/Faster Cash

• Faster Cash: MPIE developed a supply chain architecture jointly with Intel More >>

Financial Sector Think Tank

• MPIE set up the Financial Sector Think tank initiative www.fsthinktank.com backed by Sun and Computacenter to inform business and technology specialists in the Financial Services sector of innovative solutions to current business issues.