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Do It Once, Do It Right
By Bill Hodash and Eugene Ing, DTCC Next year will mark a decade since the financial crisis. Since then, a wave of regulatory reforms has been implemented to increase the transparency and resiliency of the financial system, including the mandate to use legal entity identifiers (LEIs) across many jurisdictions. The goal is to ensure that...
Finastra Wins Investment Platform Deal with KAMCO
Financial systems provider Finastra has been chosen ahead of five competitors to provide Kuwait-based investment company KAMCO with a single software platform that will integrate all the company’s asset management operations. Finastra’s Fusion Invest product will support KAMCO as it aims to scale up its business, extend asset class coverage and expand the range of...
Challenging the Barriers to RegTech Adoption
Management buy-in, cultural change and legacy systems can be barriers to the adoption of regtech, although the barriers are beginning to lower as regtech solutions show potential to fulfil business use cases and provide cost benefits. In the run-up to A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit for Capital Markets on November 16, 2017 in New York, we...
TickTrade Recruits Industry Veteran Kennedy to Run Global Sales
Foreign exchange (FX) trading platform provider, TickTrade Systems, has recruited fintech consultant and business development executive Will Kennedy as its global head of sales and marketing. Kennedy has over 25 years’ senior experience, most recently as a partner with the Toronto-based fintech consultancy Collaborative Financial Services. Before that, he held global business development, management and...
Corvil Tops up MiFID II Solutions with UTC Traceability
Corvil has expanded its Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) product portfolio with a Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) traceability solution that helps market participants monitor and report electronic trading activity. This is key to the EU’s MiFID II and the US Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) regulation, which both come into effect in 2018....
QuantHouse Makes Trading Technologies Available to Virtu Financial SI Platform
QuantHouse has made its QuantFEED and QuantLINK trading infrastructure technologies available to Virtu Financial’s disclosed systematic internaliser (SI) platform, allowing the Virtu SI to provide firm quotes efficiently and transparently to a wide range of market participants. Virtu Financial is an electronic market maker providing liquidity to the global equity, exchange traded fund, energy, and...
Metamako and Velocimetrics Offer MiFID Compliant Timestamping
Metamako and Velocimetrics have developed a joint solution designed to enable capital markets firms to capture, analyse and precisely timestamp trading data in compliance with the requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). Under the partnership, Metamako’s low-latency network devices aggregate and directly route packets of nanosecond-precision timestamped data to Velocimetrics’ VMX...
Itiviti and IHS Markit Partner to Produce Integrated ETF Platform
An increase in trading of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has prompted capital markets technology provider Itiviti to partner data analytics specialist IHS Markit to deliver an integrated ETF platform. The solution, Tbricks by Itiviti for Delta One, combines Itiviti’s Tbricks trading system with SOLA, Markit’s ETF data service. Tbricks provides a scalable and customisable trading platform,...
TP ICAP Names Eric Sinclair as CEO of Information Services
Interdealer broker TP ICAP has named Eric Sinclair as CEO of Information Services, the company’s data and analytics division. Sinclair will replace Frank Desmond who is leaving the company after 12 years of service. Sinclair will join TP ICAP on November 13, 2017, moving on from the Toronto Stock Exchange (TMX) where he spent 14...
Regulation Driving Technological Evolution of Financial Industry
By: David Pagliaro, EMEA head of State Street Global Exchange Our CEO once commented: “Over our long history, periods of significant regulatory change have provided the greatest opportunities.” This couldn’t be more true today. Since the global financial crisis, a plethora of regulation has been introduced and enforced. While the pace of new regulatory initiatives...