What an eventful year 2017 was. It’s hard to narrow it down to a handful of moments, but I believe the below were pivotal moments with a high degree of impact on Financial Markets in the mid-term

Thank you to all our guests and clients for making the Leading Point inaugural Exec Connect @ The Gherkin on 28 Sept, so engaging and successful. It was great to share our Top 10 priorities for senior execs in 2018 in capital markets, banking, insurance and market infra. Your insights and views on priorities were invaluable. We will send you the write-up and respond to your individual queries very soon. If you could not attend the launch and are interested in the takeaways, please contact a member of the coverage team to request. Follow us on Twitter: @LeadingPointFM & LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/d-t4r_Q for updates and our next exec connect.

Leading Point Financial Markets, a specialist financial services business consultancy, has acquired LMMC, a data and transformation insights focused on the Insurance market. The combined resources of Leading Point and LMMC create a full-service consultancy to support servicing Insurance clients at scale. LMMC focused on Markets Modernisation ('LMG TOM') research, insights and fostering partnerships to support market modernisation, in particular data management, fraud elimination, security, compliance and blockchains for (re)insurers, brokers, managing agents, MGA's, industry associations and service providers. Meet the team at Leading Point Industry Exec Connect on Thurs, 28th Sept at The Gherkin.

Leading Point of View. How will the FCA business plan impact organisations over the next two years? We highlight notable elements of the business plan and its implications for organisations. Jun, 2017

Leading Point Financial Markets was pleased to attend the 10th Annual International Derivatives Expo (IDX 2017), in London. IDX hosted c.1,800 attendees from over 35 countries and 500 companies. IDX provided insights from exchange leaders, clearinghouse leaders, regulators, clearing members and buy-side participants on key technological advances, political and regulatory topics, post trade operations and new service offerings. Our team participated in discussions on changing post-trade services landscape, making sense of data, challenges with existing solutions, role of utilities & newer service offerings leveraging cloud and DLT. Jun, 2017

Leading Point Managing Partner was invited to the MiFID II Summit. The Summit focused on the developments in Investor Protection, notably on the safeguarding of clients’ funds and financial instruments; the role of technology in reporting, record keeping, client outreach; as well as unbundling of best execution and research. It was attended by, inter alia, private banks, asset managers, wealth managers and family offices, as well as technology service providers, such as Actiance, Appway and Qumram. May, 2017

Leading Point discussed data management requirements contained within new regulations like MiFID II. How can better data management enhance investment performance and lead to better client outcomes? How can business risk be mitigated through better use of data? How firms can ensure they are evidencing suitability and client conduct requirements? Attendees included senior execs from leading wealth managers and services providers. Apr, 2017

Leading Point Managing Partner Rajen Madan invited to the FCA InsureTech forum. Participants explored what could innovation look like, collaborations between incumbents and start-ups, smart contracts, state of AI, InsureTech, Big Data and Blockchain adoption in Insurance. Attendees included senior executives from insurers, re-insurers, InsureTech & FinTech CxO's, FCA, ABI and Insurance Service Providers. Mar, 2016

Leading Point team explored a number of challenges related to Open Banking - How do we ensure privacy and security whilst also making the services convenient for consumers? How can we give consumers control of their data? How do we give consumers the confidence and the digital capability to use Open Banking? What will these new Fintech business models look like and how will consumers pay for them? Attendees included senior executives from banking, Financial Services Consumer Panel, FCA and FinTechs. Jan, 2017

Leading Point will be at Money Conf https://lnkd.in/dnvMr5a and b1nate.i0 https://lnkd.in/dVEQfXe next week in Lisbon 8th -10th November. Meet us there! We look forward to exchanging thoughts with leading financial services and data organisations, tech firms, start-ups and professionals. Nov, 2016  

Leading Point Managing Partner Rajen Madan, will be presenting a market briefing on the 20th September drawing from a recent survey across a cross section of market participants in financial services - banking, capital markets and insurance, on how to explore, engage and respond to the opportunity that blockchain might present in their own businesses. Sept, 2016.  

Leading Point is participating in the MiFID II Industry Working Group on 23rd August with executives from leading banks to discuss the "hot spots" in Product Governance, Research, Best Execution and Information to Client, and share our experience in getting the necessary data, systems, controls, policies & procedures in place to meet MiFID II requirements for 2018. Aug, 2016

In these times of tight budgets, the impact of tactical vs strategic solutions becomes sharper.  Gone are the days of implementing a tactical solution, intending to replace it with a strategic solution later. Stay tuned for Leading Point Financial Market’s upcoming Thought Piece and Industry Dinner in September 2016. Aug, 2016

Leading Point is participating in the RegTech Capital Markets conference on 5th July 2016 along with 100+ leading industry execs to present our point of view on practical applications of RegTech, dismantling data standards barriers, getting to MIFID II compliant solutions in 18months, and the impact of Brexit. Jul, 2016

Leading Point hosted a social event at Revolution on Leadenhall St. We had representation from a number of city institutions including Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Santander, Barclays and FinTech, particularly in the regulatory and FO IT spaces, and a convivial night was had by all.  Our thanks to Jess and the team at Revolution for their wonderful hosting of the evening!        Jun, 2016

There were a number of interactive sessions and it was a good opportunity for Leading Point partners to exchange their thoughts with wider industry members, on MIFID II, FRTB, KYC & AML, and Senior Manager Regime, based on our recent implementation of these initiatives. We thank MarkIt for making us a part of their annual client and industry event. Jun, 2016