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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...
MiFID II – Day 1
At last, and after years of preparation, Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) has gone live – but not quite as expected, with both the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the German regulator, BaFin, granting Europe’s largest futures exchanges an extra 30 months to comply with the directive’s rules on trading and...
2018 – The Year of Regulation
Happy New Year and welcome to the Year of Regulation, aka the Year of the Dog and, for some capital markets participants struggling to stay abreast of regulatory requirements, the Year of Anxiety. At the top of the agenda are Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR),...
Data Monetisation: An Approach to Unlocking Data Opportunities
By: Sapient Consulting Data has become one of an organisation’s most valuable assets, although many struggle to turn it into a profitable asset. In addition to lacking specialist knowledge, as well as the right tools and experience, companies often face challenges with the availability and usability of their data, overcomplicated legacy technologies, and a shortage...
ESMA Publishes Missing Pieces of Reference Data Crucial to MiFID II
To the relief of market participants subject to Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published the last missing pieces of reference data crucial to trading under the regulation – MiFID II and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) transitional transparency calculations (TTC) for equity and...
Quant Insight Adds Analytics Dashboard to Trading Tools Portfolio
Quant Insight, a London based macro research firm providing discretionary managers with actionable investment ideas, has introduced the QI Analytics Dashboard that allows users to analyse and visualise patterns between asset prices and the macro forces driving them. The dashboard also provides tools to identify the best trading expression across all asset classes. Mahmood Noorani,...
Mizuho Securities Integrates Nomura Research AI to Monitor Communication
Mizuho Securities has implemented Nomura Research Institute’s (NRI) voice recognition and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to optimise the monitoring and analysis of communication between investors and sales reps that is tracked for both compliance and customer care purposes. The voice recognition and AI systems are based on NRI’s TRAINA VOICE Digest and have been customised...
Colt Cuts Latency on Tokyo to London Link
Colt has reduced latency between Tokyo and London financial centres to less than 159 milliseconds. The network optimisation is part of the company’s ongoing investment in the Colt IQ Network and is designed to support trading strategies that rely on low latency infrastructure. Andrew Housden, vice president of capital markets at Colt, says: “We are...
Connectivity in Financial Markets: Are We Over the Need for Speed?
By: Michael Cooper, Chief Technology Officer, Radianz, Global Banking and Financial Markets, BT Around the world, automated systems trade equities, futures, currencies and contracts in fractions of seconds. Admired and feared in equal measure, this high frequency trading (HFT) is firmly embedded in financial markets. Although its share has been declining since the financial crisis...
UBS Leads Initiative to Reconcile LEI Data Using Ethereum Smart Contracts
A group of six banks and data vendors is working with Ethereum smart contracts to improve the quality of counterparty reference data through anonymous reconciliation. The blockchain initiative was borne out of the need to improve data quality for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR), and...