A-Team Insight Author: sharon
Real-Time Market Data in the Cloud Moves Closer to Reality
This week’s report from the FSB warning of the perils of cloud deployment for financial institutions doubtless will give cause for serious consideration of whether and how to shift certain activities to commercial public cloud platforms. But the fact remains that practitioners will continue in their quest to push what they can off-premises and onto...
FSB Weighs In On Risks Inherent In Cloud Adoption For Financial Service
The rapid adoption of cloud computing and data services by financial institutions could raise new implications for financial stability, warns global regulatory body the Financial Stability Board (FSB) – including a lack of transparency when it comes to legal and regulatory compliance. A new report from the FSB released this week highlights potential issues for...
Broadridge Details Mutualisation Strategy and A,B,C,D Solutions Building Blocks
Broadridge Financial Solutions is addressing the complexity of financial markets and burden of regulation with a mutualisation strategy that builds products once for many clients and includes core A,B,C,D building blocks – artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, cloud and digitalisation. To find out more about the company’s approach, we talked to Samir Pandiri, president of Broadridge...
12 Days of Compliance
By Philip Naughton, Partner, ACA Compliance Group. On the first day of Christmas, the industry gave to me…. twelve recurring compliance issues Unfortunately, when it comes to compliance programmes this Christmas, UK financial services firms are still making the same errors, over and over again. Recent compliance reviews carried out by ACA Compliance on financial...
How Machine Learning is Changing Data Management and Investment Processes for Active Managers
By Martijn Groot, Vice President of Marketing and Strategy, Asset Control. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning techniques are finding their way into financial services. Ranging from operational efficiencies to more effective detection of fraud and money laundering, firms are embracing techniques that find patterns, learn from them, and can subsequently act on signals coming...
FINRA CAT Selects AWS to Support Consolidated Audit Trail Platform
The US Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) has taken another step forward with FINRA CAT, the CAT plan processor, selecting Amazon Web Services (AWS) as cloud provider for the audit trail of order information for all US equity securities and listed options across US markets and trading venues. AWS storage, compute, database, analytics and security services...
SMCR Now Underway – But Are Firms Ready?
Yesterday the Senior Managers and Certification Regime came into force for the asset management industry, bringing into the fold the remaining 47,000 FCA-regulated firms who must now start performing additional checks, providing formal statements and submitting data on appointed managers. But with some uncertainty around how strict the regulator will be in its approach to...
A-Team Group Names Winners of 2019 Data Management Insight Awards
A-Team Group has announced the winners of its 2019 Data Management Insight Awards. The annual awards, now in their seventh year, are designed to recognise leading providers of data management solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants. See the full list of winners here. The awards were hosted by Andrew Delaney, chief content officer...
ESMA Finally Puts Its Foot Down on Consolidated Ticker Tape
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has bitten the bullet on a real-time consolidated ticker tape for European equities, following the failure of an industry-led solution to emerge. In a review of market data pricing published today, the regulator warns that market data costs under MiFID II are still too high, confirming plans to...
Firms Failing to Meet MiFID II Reporting Requirements – Vendors Can Help
We are almost two years on from MiFID II implementation and yet there are still gaping holes where firms continue to struggle with the burden of mandatory reporting requirements brought in by the regulation. Around 50% are not yet monitoring their reporting daily, according to the second annual MiFID II & Best Execution survey from...