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PRIIPs Compliance Deadline Postponed to January 2018
The European Commission has postponed the application date of Packaged Retail and Insurance based Investment Products (PRIIPs) regulation by a year, moving the date to 1 January 2018 and aligning compliance with that of Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II). The Commission’s decision to postpone PRIIPs and the creation of associated Key Information Documents...
Expert Guidance on How Best to Implement a Market Data Inventory Platform
Market data inventory platforms are becoming essential to financial institutions’ ability to manage market data costs, and for some firms costs such as index licensing, research, and publications and subscriptions – but how best can firms select and implement market data inventory platforms, and what benefits can be gained? These questions and more were answered...
DMR Receives Mixed Response on ANNA Derivatives Service Bureau Article
Our recent item on the Association of National Numbering Agencies’ (ANNA) proposed Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has sparked a mixed set of reactions from the marketplace. The DMR article suggested questions about the operation of the DSB, which will allocate ISINs for OTC derivatives. Unsurprisingly, interested parties had widely divergent views on the DMR article....
Best Practice Approaches to the Data Management Challenges of MiFID II
The data management challenges of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) are dominated by sourcing required data and managing multiple identifiers, but despite these difficulties, financial institutions expect to gain significant operational and business benefits from compliance. Meeting the data management challenges of MiFID II was the subject of an A-Team Group webinar...
Key to the Highway: The Changing Face of High and Low Touch Execution
By: Steve Grob, director at Fidessa In the beginning, there was high touch, where brokers provided a high-value, solution-based approach to finding the liquidity their buy-side clients were looking for. This worked in an era of high fees and low scrutiny of what end investor trading commissions were actually funding. But as markets electronified, and...
ANNA Derivatives Service Bureau Leaves Many Questions Unanswered
The story of MiFID II and the selection of the ISIN as an identifier for all instruments in scope of the regulation, including OTC derivatives, has taken another turn, perhaps a final turn, with the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) pressing on with the build of a Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) by issuing an...
GoldenSource Discusses the Pitfalls and Potential of Entity Data Management
Entity data is a fundamental building block of many systems, but all too often large financial institutions fail to manage the data strategically and incur negative customer reactions, increased costs and regulatory reporting errors. The solution to these problems is an enterprise-wide approach to entity data secured by strong data governance. The problems and potential...
Best Practice Approaches to Identifying and Managing Securities Related to Sanctioned Entities
Managing data to comply with ever-changing economic sanctions is often a problem, but the problem becomes more complex for financial institutions that must monitor and manage not only country, company and individual sanctions, but also securities related to these entities. Addressing the problem, A-Team Group is planning a webinar that will consider best practice approaches...
Governance And Privacy Are Getting Married
By Dennis Slattery, CEO of EDMworks Announcement! The governance community is getting married to the privacy community. But how do we make sure the marriage is long and happy? The challenges are many and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is one example of a flood of privacy/trust laws that will impact the couple. The...
Fine Lines Between FCA and EU on MiFID II
By Dan Barnes UK markets regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has issued its consultation on the implementation of MiFID II, with some significant differences to the rules published by the European Commission, particularly for the buy side. The level of surprise these changes hold for firms will typically depend on their size and investment...