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CDO Leadership: Yesterday’s Fairy Tale is Today’s Reality
By: Tony Brownlee, Chief Strategy Officer at Kingland Systems Sometimes we all need a good story, especially as we look at the priorities for 2019. We all know the classic children’s story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Goldilocks stumbles into a house and proceeds to discover three bowls of porridge, three chairs, and three...
Regulatory Oversight Committee of the LEI Calls for Final Comments on Fund Relationships
The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is calling for final comments on a second consultation document on fund relationships in the Global LEI System (GLEIS) by Monday January 14, 2019. The consultation follows an initial review of fund relationships towards the end of 2017 and is aimed at making sure...
Could MiFID II be the Unlikely Catalyst of AI Adoption in Capital Markets?
By: Terence Chabe, Business Development Manager, Colt Technology Services We are a year on from MiFID II coming into effect, and while the regulation hasn’t caused any of the more apocalyptic consequences predicted, it has transformed the day-to-day life of those working in capital markets. One key change is the vast amount of data firms...
FlexTrade Taps Corvil for Infrastructure, Client Analytics
Buy-side order and execution management system provider FlexTrade has turned to Corvil to industrialise its infrastructure monitoring processes and ultimately help clients optimise their own trading stacks. The move illustrates the ongoing shift to greater transparency around execution quality as firms look beyond transaction cost analysis (TCA) and seek to measure execution performance and offer...
Refinitiv and Tradeweb Renew Data Agreement, But Where Next for Tradeweb?
Refinitiv, formerly the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters, has renewed an agreement with Tradeweb Markets to make Tradeweb market data, including additional datasets, available for exclusive redistribution. The expanded, multi-year agreement enables financial professionals to access Tradeweb data across multiple Refinitiv platforms and solutions, based on the user’s individual preferences and workflow requirements....
DTCC Partners Xceptor to Streamline SFTR Reporting
DTCC has partnered Xceptor to support regulatory reporting under Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR). SFTR reporting obligations are expected to come into play in late 2019 or early 2020. The partnership allows DTCC clients to use Xceptor’s artificial intelligence (AI) automation software within the DTCC global trade repository to transform data in support of compliance...
OpenFin and Genesis Partner to Accelerate Digital Transformation
genesis, an international capital markets software firm, and OpenFin have partnered to provide clients with scalable and interoperable technology and desktop solutions that can be built and deployed at speed. The partnership is designed to drive front to back office digital transformation projects by bringing together genesis’ agile software development and OpenFin’s application interoperability across...
AML Compliance Costs US Firms $25.3 billion a Year
US institutions are paying more than $25 billion a year to comply with financial crime requirements. A survey by LexisNexis Risk Solutions, based on responses from over 150 decision-makers at banks, investment, asset management and insurance firms, suggests smaller firms are hit hardest, relative to their bottom lines, with the cost of AML compliance reaching...
Linedata Partners with Trade Informatics to Launch Analytics Solution
Paris-based Linedata, a provider of credit and asset management technology, has teamed up with FINRA member and quantitative analytics firm Trade Informatics (TI) to launch a new suite of execution analytics using TI’s Strategic & Tactical Analytic Research & Trading (START). Linedata’s order management solution (OMS), powered by START, a broker-neutral, intelligent trading engine, will...
AllianceBernstein Selects ICE Liquidity Indicators to Aid with Regulatory Compliance
AllianceBernstein (AB) has selected ICE Data Services’ ICE Liquidity Indicators service to help support its investment management, liquidity risk management and regulatory compliance obligations. Market participants are addressing liquidity as a risk factor in the fixed income markets and seeking ways to comply with regulations such as SEC’s Liquidity Risk Management Rule, which in part...