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A-Team Webinar Discusses Approaches to Best Execution under MiFID II

The best execution requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) present several challenges including the need to manage more data, time-stamp and sequence messages, and report in line with the regulation’s compliance mandate. Financial institutions that implemented the first iteration of MiFID after it came into force in 2007 may have a...

Velocimetrics VMX EndToEnd Offers Complete Business Process Tracking and Analysis

Velocimetrics has pulled together its data tracking and performance analysis technologies to deliver a single platform designed to help financial institutions track and analyse what is happening across complete business processes in real time. The platform, VMX EndToEnd, will be Velocimetrics’ strategic platform going forward and has been built in response to customer requests for...

Corvil Extends Data Capture Platform to Deliver Non-Intrusive MiFID II Solution

Corvil has extended its network data capture and analytics platform to deliver a Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) compliance solution that is applied as an overlay to existing infrastructure and integrates a lightweight agent that collects time-stamped events from software applications. The solution uses an independent system to gather precision data needed...

OneMarketData Adds Strategy Backtesting Platform to OneTick Product Portfolio

OneMarketData has introduced a strategy development and large-scale backtesting platform that is powered by the company’s OneTick data management and time series analytics solution and supported by global multi-asset class market history available through the OneTick Cloud. The platform is called OneTick Strategy Backtesting and is available immediately as either a hosted service or deployed...

Itiviti Develops Regulatory Compliance Platform for MAR and MiFID II

Itiviti is developing a regulatory compliance solution that will be delivered as a managed service, focus first on Europe’s Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), and then on Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II). The solution is based on Itiviti’s Tbricks high performance trading platform and the OneTick ticker plant provided by Itiviti partner One Market...

Getting to Grips with Risk Data: The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book

By Zoe Schiff If you thought BCBS 239 would be a challenge, you should take a look at the proposals currently being formulated as part of the Basel group’s Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB). Happily, this will be part of what we’ll be talking about next Tuesday, when A-Team hosts a webinar on...

Australian Securities Exchange implements Velocimetrics to Monitor Trading Platform Performance

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has completed the implementation of Velocimetrics’ real-time performance monitoring and analysis software, giving it greater operational insight into the performance of its trading platform and the ability to respond quickly to any latency issues that could cause trading delays or compromise customer experience. The exchange selected the Velocimetrics software working...

Fonetic and Tango Team to Deliver Dodd-Frank Compliant Voice Recording and Speech Analytics Solution

Fonetic, a provider of voice recognition and linguistics analytics, has set up a partnership with Tango Networks, a provider of business mobility services, to offer a mobile voice recording and speech analytics system designed to help financial institutions meet voice compliance requirements on the trading floor. The solution is a server software overlay that can...

Corvil Giga Platform Delivers Real-Time Operational Intelligence and Big Data Integration

Corvil has added streaming analytics, big data adapters, auto data discovery and more to its network performance monitoring solution to deliver a streaming analytics platform designed for real-time operational intelligence and big data integration. The Corvil Giga release – which will be followed by Tera and Peta releases supporting greater data volumes within the next...

Velocimetrics Redraws Product Roadmap to Include TS-Associates’ Solutions and Technologies

Velocimetrics has licensed the intellectual property rights (IPR) of TS-Associates’ TipOff and Application Tap network monitoring and analysis products following the company’s collapse into administration. Velocimetrics says it will continue to maintain and develop the former TS-Associates products as well as integrate them with its own technology, which offers real-time business-level insight into activity across...