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Regulation Best Interest: A New Standard for US Brokers
The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Regulation Best Interest—or Reg BI— officially came into effect on June 30, 2020. Brokerage firms now have to comply with a whole new standard of conduct when dealing with retail clients, in one of the biggest regulatory shake-ups for the US market in years… but there have been concerns...
Why Is Now the Time for the Financial Markets to Focus on Collaboration Compliance?
By Phil Fry, VP of Financial Compliance Product Strategy at Verint. The seismic impact of the pandemic has seen many banks and financial institutions ramp up their use of next-generation communication solutions, to assist their employees to work from home and alternative locations. During lockdowns, trades and client orders, that were traditionally executed at corporate sites, moved...
SFTR Reporting Goes Live – But Is the Industry Ready?
The first deadline for new transaction reporting under the UE’s SFTR went live on July 13, and while the first phase seems to have come off relatively smoothly, there are still some concerns around the readiness of the financial services industry when it comes to the reporting process. “Whilst [this] marks the first deadline for...
NICE Actimize Deploys New Xignite Microservices to Support Shift to Cloud
Financial crime, risk and compliance technology specialist NICE Actimize is using market data microservices from Xignite to support its initiative to move its real-time market data infrastructure into the cloud. The move underscores the growing interest among financial institutions in migrating mission-critical activities to the cloud in a bid to reduce on-premise overhead and take...
Dow Jones Offers Access to Newswire Archive via AWS Data Exchange
Dow Jones Newswires is making a five-year archive of its English-language news available via Amazon Web Services’ AWS Data Exchange, which allows customers to find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud. The initiative aims to simplify and accelerate access to Dow Jones news content for AWS clients in the hope of exploiting...
SS&C Adds Canoe Intelligence for PDF Data Capture in Alternative Investments
SS&C has tapped Canoe Intelligence’s data conversion technology to allow users of its Black Diamond Wealth Platform for alternative investments to capture data from PDF-based reporting documents, eliminating the need for manual rekeying and reducing the risk of error. Under the arrangement, Canoe will also support integration with SS&C Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX), Axys and...
Australia Sees Groundswell in Demand for LEI Registrations
The year 2019/20 saw a doubling of LEI registrations in Australia, according to APIR Systems, a provider of essential infrastructure for the wealth management industry in Australia, including acting as an official registration agent for the issuance of LEIs. Coming into legal force in Australia on October 1, 2019 after numerous postponements, there has been...
ESMA Affirms Importance of Data-Driven Strategy for EU Digital Finance Initiative
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has submitted a response to the European Commission’s (EC) consultation on a new digital finance strategy for the European Union (EU), in which it reiterates the crucial importance of a data-driven financial services sector. Benefits of digitalisation, according to ESMA, would include increased speed,...
Financial Services Firms Seek to Improve Data Collection in Wake of Coronavirus
Almost half (49%) of financial services firms plan to improve their ability to quickly gather and analyse data moving forward, according to a global survey of 500 financial services C-Suite executives and their direct reports released this week by Broadridge Financial Solutions. The findings come as part of a broader trend towards technology transformation as...
Quant Insight Releases Macro Analytics Desktop via OpenFin OS
Quant Insight (Qi), a provider of analytics that focus on macro factors to the buy-side quant community, has developed a client application within the OpenFin desktop operating environment. The move is aimed at reducing overhead while improving client experience and flexibility. According to Mahmood Noorani, Qi’s founder and CEO, “Making Qi available through the OpenFin...