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Corlytics Calls for Input on COVID-19 Compliance Survey

Regulatory risk intelligence firm Corlytics has taken the bull by the horns when it comes to COVID-19 coverage, launching a range of targeted tracking solutions designed to assist firms to stay on top of the constantly-shifting regulatory requirements and evolving market climate as the pandemic revolutionises the way the world operates; along with a new survey designed...

COVID-19: Regulator Round-up (5 May)

In these days of unprecedented economic pressure and accompanying financial volatility, regulators around the world are realigning their priorities and rapidly shifting their strategies to support institutions through the ongoing crisis. In this regular weekly feature, we keep you up to date on the latest regulatory news, responses and approaches – from deadline delays to...

The Symbiotic Relationship Between Data and Technology: The Path to Building the Perfect Solution

By Charlie Heidlage, CLEAR Corporate Investigative Sales Partnership Manager, Thomson Reuters. The link between data and technology within Risk departments is an ever growing and evolving relationship. As data becomes deeper, wider and more complex, so must the technology solutions to handle and capitalize on this complexity. Our “Big Data” world not only allows for...

DASH Enters the Cloud with Regulatory Compliance Suite

DASH Regulatory Technologies – the RegTech-focused affiliate of capital markets technology and execution services provider DASH Financial Technologies – has expanded its cloud offering with the launch of DASH 360R, the next generation of its LDB platform for US regulatory capital calculation and reporting compliance. In the US, broker-dealers are required by the SEC and FINRA to maintain specified...

Relief Over SFTR Alignment Following Treasury Statement

The UK Treasury released a statement last week confirming plans to align post-Brexit legislation with the EU’s Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR), the first phase reporting requirements of which are due to come into force in July, 2020 (delayed from the original 13 April deadline to to COVID-19 pressures). The regulation requires firms to report...

LIBOR Transition and COVID-19: Could a Delay be on the Cards?

By Navin Rauniar, Partner in charge of LIBOR Transition, TCS. Back in March, RegTech Insight explored the relation of FRTB and the LIBOR Transition. There is a strong relationship between both initiatives, and we now find COVID-19 adding further complexity to this relation, especially between the recent delays to the regulatory landscape and the impact...

Rapid Addition’s RA Platform 3.0 Address ‘Buy and Build’ Imperative

London-based trading technology provider Rapid Addition has released version 3.0 of its RA Platform, a middleware solution for handling electronic trading messaging, allowing firms to customise their trading connectivity set-ups to best suit their requirements. The new version aims to support firms’ growing tendency toward ‘buy and build’ as they seek to optimise their use...

Debut Virtual Data Management Summit Highlights Industry Agility

In an extraordinary achievement that attracted over 1,000 delegates and well over 20,000 views, A-Team Group’s debut Virtual Data Management Summit went live last week to showcase the most cutting-edge content from an industry that has shown itself to be both resilient and responsive to the unique challenges presented by the ongoing coronavirus epidemic. Focusing...

Nasdaq Launches Cloud Data Service

Nasdaq has finally launched its new long-awaited Cloud Data Service (NCDS), offering access to real-time exchange data, index, and fund data through cloud-based technology from Amazon Web Services (AWS). The solution makes Nasdaq data available through a suite of scalable, cloud-based Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), which utilise open-source delivery standards and a software development kit (SDK)...

Another Win for big xyt as Aquis Exchange Adopts Liquidity Cockpit

Subscription-based pan-European equities exchange Aquis has adopted the Liquidity Cockpit platform from data analytics specialist big xyt to support market structure analytics both internally and for its clients. The Liquidity Cockpit solution captures, normalises, collates and stores trade data at a high level of granularity, applying data science and advanced techniques to execution analytics to deliver...