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InstrumentiX and FMADIO Launch 100G Combined Capture and Analytics Platform
InstrumentiX, the performance monitoring and analytics solutions provider, and FMADIO, the packet capture appliance vendor, have together released a new 100G capture and analytics platform, the x-100. The x-100 was developed in response to the exponential increase in trading-related data volumes in recent years, which has driven a demand for high-performance capture and analytics to...
Sell-Side Firms Help Buy-Side Clients Meet Reporting Obligations with DTCC Report Hub
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has released Report Hub, an assisted reporting model designed to allow sell-side firms to help buy-side clients with regulatory reporting mandates across 14 jurisdictions. Sell-side firms including prime brokers and clearing brokers can use Report Hub to provide required counterparty trade data to buy-side clients that also use...
Liquidity Risk Spotlight: Increased Regulatory Scrutiny is Our Biggest Threat
Damian Handzy, Managing Director for Performance, Risk and Analytics at Confluence. Inflation and interest rate spikes, the likes of which we haven’t seen in a generation, can cause serious market dislocations and liquidity crunches. Regulators around the world have taken notice. The increasing pressure of regulatory requirements around liquidity risk demands a more precise and...
Creating the Conditions for Real-Time Post-Trade Information
By Russell Levens, US Head of Customer Engagement – Cleared Derivatives, ION Markets. The S&P 500 index recently recorded a new peak in one-month daily volatility, unmatched since early July. Simply put, the industry has tracked a record number of price swings to the upside and the downside, all of significant magnitude, at a time...
Rate of Annual Sanctions Growth Nears 15%, According to Refinitiv Report
The Russia-Ukraine war has caused rapid sanctions inflation since March in several autonomous sanctions programs, contributing to a sanctions inflation rate of 14.6% year on year, compared with 11.2% rate six months ago, according to London Stock Exchange Group’s Refinitiv Global Sanctions Index. Refinitiv’s annual Global Sanctions Index white paper, the second edition of which...
RepRisk Launches Biodiversity Data Tool for Extractives Projects
ESG data provider RepRisk has launched a new biodiversity impact tool for investors, the latest product that seeks to provide visibility into one of the fastest-growing parts of the green economy. RepRisk Geospatial Analytics offers managers and owners of mining, oil and gas assets a detailed view of the proximity of their projects to natural...
A-Team Group Names Winners of RegTech Insight Awards – USA 2022
Congratulations to the winners of A-Team Group’s RegTech Insight Awards – USA 2022. The awards were presented by Sarah Underwood, Editor, A-Team Group during a lively drinks reception following A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit New York on 16 November 2022. The RegTech Insight Awards recognise both established solution providers and innovative newcomers providing RegTech solutions that...
Refinitiv and MayStreet – Traversing the Latency Spectrum
Following its acquisition of Refinitiv in 2021, to expand its Data and Analytics business, LSEG signed an agreement to buy US-based market data solutions vendor MayStreet in May this year. MayStreet was founded in 2012 by two market data practitioners, Michael Lehr & Patrick Flannery. After graduating from Rochester University with a degree in computer...
Trading Technologies Expands Risk Management Offering and Post-Trade Allocation Services
Trading Technologies, the trading software, infrastructure and data solutions vendor, through its partnership with KRM22, the risk management software company, is making the KRM22 Risk Manager available to customers on the TT platform. Incorporating KRM22’s real-time post-trade risk service will significantly enhance TT’s risk toolset, according to a recent company announcement. KRM22’s risk scoring system...
Fenergo Study Reveals True Cost of KYC
A global study of more than 1,000 C-level executives across corporate and institutional banks, published by client-onboarding specialist Fenergo, offers a view on how much of a burden KYC represents for many institutions. Financial institutions are spending millions of dollars every year inefficiently onboarding and maintaining clients, according to the research. The survey, conducted in August...