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Wedbush Futures Migrates Post-Trade Processing to FIS Derivatives Utility
Wedbush Futures plans to migrate the clearing operations processing and technology management of its exchange traded derivatives business to the FIS Derivatives Utility. The plan is to migrate this quarter with a view to gaining greater middle and back-office processing efficiency, as well as simplified regulatory compliance and application upgrades. Wedbush, one of the largest...
Virtu Targets MiFID II SI Liquidity via Partnerships with Vela, QuantHouse, Exegy
Electronic market-maker Virtu Financial has staked its claim as a Systematic Internaliser under MiFID II, announcing several distribution partnerships for its SI-related data feeds as the regulation came into effect last week. Virtu – whose SI aspirations will be led by its Virtu Financial Ireland operation – plans to provide bilateral liquidity in European cash...
BSO Integrates Microwave Technology from Apsara Acquisition
BSO plans to integrate Apsara Networks’ wireless microwave technology into its fibre optic global network following acquisition of the company. The acquisition was supported by a minority investment in BSO by private equity fund Abry Partners. Apsara’s microwave network connects a number of liquidity venues and incudes a New Jersey route taking in Nasdaq, NYSE...
ESMA’s First Heisenberg Moment
A blog by Steve Grob, director of group strategy, Fidessa Anyone who has watched the cult TV series Breaking Bad knows that Heisenberg was the clandestine alias adopted by the show’s chief protagonist, Walt White. The ‘original’ Heisenberg was, of course, the brilliant German theoretical physicist who developed his famous Uncertainty Principle. Simply stated it...
Apcela Funding Supports Expansion of Application Accelerator Platform
Apcela, provider of a platform that accelerates applications and data between legacy enterprise data centres and the cloud, has closed additional funding from existing investor Claritas Capital and named former SunGard executive Jack Dziak as president and chief operating officer. The company’s low-latency application delivery platform, AppHUB, helps users manage application performance in hybrid IT...
Firms Need a Strategic Approach to the 2018 Regulatory Agenda
The 2018 regulatory agenda is in motion, with Packaged Retail and Insurance based Investment Products (PRIIPs) going live on January 1st, and Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) taking effect on January 3rd. Looking forward, the compliance deadline for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is May...
NeoXam Details Product Plans for 2018
After a period of intense activity, acquisition and reorganisation, NeoXam moves into 2018 with a focus on its Investment Book of Record (IBOR) and DataHub solutions. It is also responding to customer requests to include standardised data in its solution modules and aiming to help asset managers deal with the challenges of regulation, data...
DTCC Adds Exception Manager to Trade Processing Product Suite
DTCC has introduced Exception Manager, an addition to its institutional trade processing product suite. The solution supports all securities transactions and is designed to allow market participants to publish, manage and communicate exceptions throughout the trade lifecycle. The exception manager includes a central online industry platform that provides a single view of all post-trade exceptions,...
What Do You Think 2018 Holds in Store for the RegTech Industry?
By: Conor Coughlan, global head of risk, regulatory and compliance marketing, Financial and Risk Division, Thomson Reuters Looking forward and following current patterns of industry change and analysis, 2018 is going to be a pivotal year for regtech collaboration, service and solutions providers. In essence, the themes we can expect to see more of in...
Extended emagine Timestamping Service Supports MiFID II Compliance
emagine’s Time-as-a-Service (TaaS) solution, which enables market participants to timestamp trades to within 100 microseconds, has been made available across BSO’s network of 91 data centres in 20 countries. Financial services management consultancy emagine says TaaS enables traders to comply with Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), which went live this week and...