Ex-Client Takes Lead at 3di North America
Data management software and services provider, 3d innovations (3di), has hired former client Greg Kozar to run its products and services practice in the US and Canada. Kozar is a market data specialist and consultant who previously worked at Moody’s, Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs, among others. He will advise 3di’s clients – across banks,...
Wall Street Horizon Extends Corporate Events Intelligence with EventBreaks
Wall Street Horizon, an alternative data provider specialising in corporate events intelligence, has introduced EventBreaks, a service that alerts institutional investors to changes in corporate events. The service covers each of the 40-plus event types the company tracks and provides granular information around how events move, alerting users to the time, date and substance of...
Eagle Investment Systems Discusses Move to Agile Delivery Platform
Eagle Investment Systems has released the next generation of its core portfolio management software, saying the 2017 release will be its last traditional software release as it is moving to a more agile and continuous delivery model to help users keep pace with evolving regulatory demands and technology change. The company is also firming up...
SmartStream RDU Fills MiFID II Gap with Systematic Internaliser Register
The SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU) is finalising a service – the Systematic Internaliser Register – that will allow systematic internalisers (SIs) within the scope of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) to publish financial instruments for which they will offer SI services and firms to identify whether counterparties are SIs and therefore...
ANNA DSB Hits Deadline to Issue ISINs for OTC Derivatives
The Association of National Numbering Agencies’ Derivatives Service Bureau (ANNA DSB) has met its deadline to issue ISINs for OTC derivatives as required under Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). The service went live today, October 2, 2017, with early users being onboarded, ISINs being created for OTC derivatives, and a global OTC...
Thomson Reuters Resolves the MiFID II No LEI, No Trade Problem
Thomson Reuters has responded to the ‘No LEI, No Trade’ problem posed by Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) with an LEI Profiling Service that allows users to identify LEI gaps that need to be closed before the January 3, 2018 deadline and check the data quality within their reportable client universes. The...
A-Team Infographic Illustrates the Pain Points of MiFID II
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) is a game changer for European capital markets and a headache for trading operations and data management functions developing compliance solutions for its exacting requirements. At A-Team Group, we’ve been tracking industry progress on the regulation and with less than three months to go before the compliance...
GLEIF Automates Access to the LEI Data Pool with LEI Look-up API
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has responded to financial industry requests to be able to include LEI data in automated processes by providing an application programming interface (API). The API is called LEI Look-up and is designed to provide automated access to the Global LEI Index of current and historical LEI records. The...
GDPR will Curb the Digital Wild West, but the Cost will be High
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will curb the digital wild west and improve protection of personal data, but the cost of implementation will be high and now is the time to get started to meet the compliance deadline of May 25, 2018. Taking part in an A-Team Group webinar on the regulation, subject matter experts...
John Randles Leaves CEO Role at Bloomberg PolarLake to Join Start-up
John Randles has left the role of CEO at Bloomberg PolarLake and is on gardening leave until the end of September, after which he will become CEO of a technology start-up. Randles has been replaced by Warren Buckley, chief technology officer (CTO) at Bloomberg PolarLake and founder of PolarLake in 2002. The switch took place...