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MiFID II Response Depends On Organizing Data, Sticking To Exchanges
Transparency of financial market activity will be key to achieving compliance with MiFID II best execution provisions, states independent industry consultant Chris Pickles, who will be on a panel discussing data management under the European Union directive, at the Intelligent Trading Summit (ITS) to be hosted by A-Team Group in London on 2nd February. “MiFID...
CAT Builder Choice Marks End Of Years-Long Process
Spurred by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approval of a national market system (NMS) plan in November, which includes creation of a consolidated audit trail (CAT), US securities exchanges chose Thesys Technologies, a New York-based trading technology provider with a focus on trading surveillance and big data functions already aimed at CAT functions....
Blockchain: Are we nearly there yet?
By Joshua Satten, Director of Business Consulting, Sapient Global Markets Recently, I led a panel discussion on blockchain case studies at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Asset Managers Forum in New York. The panel presented diverse perspectives on the current state of blockchain across the financial industry with representatives coming from State...
Thomson Reuters Sets New Foundation For REDI
Thomson Reuters’ acquisition of execution management systems provider REDI Holdings will be integrated into its pre-trade and post-trade workflow services, and its Eikon financial analysis solution, according to Michael Chin, managing director and global head of trading at Thomson Reuters. The acquisition by Thomson Reuters is aimed at capturing more of the buy-side workflow, an...
Financial Machineries and Iason Develop Anonymous Benchmarking Service for FRTB
Financial Machineries is collaborating with Italian risk management consultancy Iason to deliver a service that will help banks prove they have enough data to use an internal model for market risk capital calculations required by Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation. Banks that cannot prove they have enough data to use an internal...
OTAS Increases Frequency Of Text Format Reporting
Market analytics and trading intelligence provider OTAS Technologies has launched Intraday Lingo, which increases the timeliness of its Lingo natural language reporting technology. OTAS Technologies’ Lingo technology synthesises market data, charts and informational graphics to produce natural language text for users to read, explains Tom Doris, CEO of OTAS Technologies. “Everything relevant to your investment...
Markit EDM Lays Out 2017 Roadmap
Markit EDM, the enterprise data management (EDM) business of Markit that merged with IHS in July 2016, has laid out its roadmap for 2017 including functional expansion of its EDM platform and a focus on delivering improved data visualisation to business users. Working with IHS, a provider of proprietary information, analytics and solutions to a...
ISITC Taps Machine Learning To Catch Suspect Transactions
Although the financial industry’s awareness of the need to use machine learning to bolster its cybersecurity has existed for several years, focused work on such endeavors is just beginning, as Erica Choinski, the new chair of industry operations group ISITC, sees it. As ISITC prepares the agenda for its 23rd annual vendor show in Boston...
2017 – The Year of Data
2017 may be the Year of the Rooster in the Chinese calendar, but in the capital markets calendar it is the Year of Data – data that will drive regulatory compliance, business transformation, client satisfaction, improved performance and more! Of course, data has been in the picture since way before the last Year of the...
Nascent Exchange IPSX Implements GoldenSource Cloud EDM Platform
The International Property Securities Exchange (IPSX) is working with GoldenSource to implement the software vendor’s cloud-based enterprise data management (EDM) platform ahead of its planned launch towards the middle of this year. The exchange still needs approval from the Financial Conduct Authority, but expects to be the first regulated exchange dedicated to the admission and...