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Hany Choueiri Argues the Case for Information Standards
The biggest challenge to the fourth industrial revolution that will put artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and big data centre stage is a lack of widely agreed information standards caused by obsession with technology rather than information. Hany Choueiri, head of data governance and strategy, EMEA, at State Street, discussed the need for capital markets to...
FactSet Acquires BISAM to Extend Portfolio Performance and Risk Capabilities
FactSet has extended its capabilities in portfolio performance, multi-asset risk and Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS) management and reporting through the acquisition of BISAM Technologies from Aquiline Capital Partners at a cost of $205.2 million. The acquisition adds BISAM’s B-One cross-asset performance measurement solution, which complements FactSet’s portfolio analytics and client reporting, as well as...
Firms Struggle To Grasp MiFID II Time-stamping Rules
MiFID II definitions for time-stamping and rules for record keeping to support tracking of trade orders — as defined in Article 25 of the directive’s regulatory technical standards (RTS 25) — even less than a year away from the deadline for compliance with the regulation, appear to be little understood, according to experts who spoke...
MiFID II Lead Rodrigo Buenaventura Leaves ESMA at End of March
Rodrigo Buenaventura, head of the markets department at the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and leader of the authority’s implementation of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), will step down from the post at the end of this month. He will be replaced by Fabrizio Planta, currently head of ESMA’s post trading...
Inside The Matrix: How Broadway Technology Links Systems Together
Trading complex financial products on behalf of a large enterprise is an elaborate challenge that requires distributed systems working together. Broadway Technology, a provider of middleware serving electronic trading and automated decision-making needs, offers TOC, a platform addressing that problem. Intelligent Trading Technology spoke with Joshua Walsky, the company’s chief technology officer, about how TOC works, and...
Informatica Builds Out Data Governance Through Diaku Acquisition
Informatica is building out its data governance capability following the late February acquisition of UK data governance software and consulting company Diaku. The company has introduced Informatica Axon, a solution based on Diaku’s flagship Axon data governance technology and integrated the software with its Intelligent Data Platform. The integration adds data governance to data quality,...
DTCC DataPro Readies Fundamental Review of the Trading Book Solution
DTCC DataPro is planning to add Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB), expanded risk and extended exchange-traded funds (ETFs) solutions to its portfolio of data products through 2017. We caught up with Ron Jordan, managing director of Data Services at DTCC, soon after the rebranding of DTCC Data Products to DTCC DataPro to find...
Enyx Accelerates Trading Transmissions With Radio Waves
For major established trading communication routes that have relied on fiber optic cable, such as New York to Chicago, London to Frankfurt, or local back office transmissions as from New York to secondary sites in New Jersey, Enyx, a field programmable gate array (FPGA) provider, has introduced nxLink Share Version 2. This new version of...
CJC Moves On Outbound Market Data
Financial technology management solutions company CJC’s new IT Regulatory Services division is offering auditing and inventory of firms’ outbound data, concentrating on publication of market data rather than consumption, as a way to improve efficiency and reduce costs, according to Sheena Clark, director of regulatory services, CJC. “This is predominantly a data governance and risk...
The Next Frontier in Data Management Responses to Regulation
Not a conference on technology for capital markets goes by without many mentions of regulation, so here at A-Team Group we have put together a distinguished panel of speakers that will review the regulatory landscape and suggest how firms can develop data strategies that are compatible with a volatile environment at this week’s Data Management...