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TP ICAP Partners Credit Benchmark to Enhance Credit Risk Capabilities
TP ICAP’s data and analytics division has partnered Credit Benchmark to create a credit proxy solution combining market pricing with Credit Benchmark ratings. Customers will benefit from enhanced price discovery, xVA, trading and risk management capabilities. TP ICAP will provide Credit Benchmark with data from its Tullett Prebon Information business for research into the relationship…
FlexTrade Systems Integrates ipushpull with FlexNOW to Provide Real-Time Data Sharing
FlexTrade Systems has integrated ipushpull (iPP), a real-time interoperability platform, with its FlexNOW execution management system. The arrangement will provide FlexNOW users with access to iPP’s live data sharing and workflow automation between desktop applications, messaging platforms, in-house systems and cloud services. iPP’s analytics module will allow FlexNOW’s primarily hedge fund and mini-prime clients to…
Towards Sustainable MiFID II Compliance
With MiFID II nine months into implementation since go live in Janaury 2018 and the systematic internaliser (SI) regime having become mandatory for all firms within its scope in early September, a panel of regulatory experts at A-Team Group’s recent RegTech Summit in London reviewed how the regulation is playing out and discussed how to…
US AML Requirements Shift Human Capital Focus
A report from Thomson Reuters and the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) notes that since the launch of US AML requirements for financial institutions in May 2018, firms have shifted human capital focus away from regulatory change management towards more efficient customer due diligence (CDD). According to the 2018 Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Insights…
Benefits and Limitations of Deploying Regtech to Fight Financial Crime
Financial crime is rising exponentially, requiring financial institutions to review and renew client onboarding, Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) processes. A panel discussion at A-Team Group’s recent RegTech Summit in London considered the challenges and inefficiencies of today’s onboarding, KYC and AML solutions and proposed how regtech deployment could improve the situation….
AxiomSL Expands European Presence through SKS Partnership
AxiomSL has partnered Germany’s SKS Unternehmensberatung in a move set to increase its influence in continental Europe. AxiomSL’s regulatory reporting platform is already compliant with both national and international requirements in Germany, and its collaboration with SKS, a provider of regulatory, risk and compliance management systems, is expected to enhance its market position. The firm…
The Devil is in The Data: The Role of FMIs in Providing Data Services and the Importance of a Best Practice Approach
By Tim Lind, Managing Director, Data Services at DTCC In recent years, it has been claimed that data has eclipsed oil as the world’s most valuable resource. Financial market infrastructures (FMIs) are on a constant search for ‘new oil’ and the value of data is certainly on the list of new services they are developing….
A Dive into the Detail of the Systematic Internaliser Regime Under MiFID II
The requirements of the systematic internaliser (SI) regime under Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) became mandatory on September 1, 2018, meaning firms within the scope of the regulation must become SIs when they trade certain volumes in particular instruments, as set out by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). A month…
Data Management Practitioners Take Increasingly Dynamic Approach to Regulatory Compliance
Regulatory compliance continues to be a burden for data management practitioners working in capital markets, but approaches are changing as firms move towards managing reference data once for as many regulations as possible, adopt a utility model to ease the burden, or look to regtech solutions to support reporting. The ongoing challenges of compliance were…
Demand Derivatives Partners GMEX to Deliver Innovative Futures Exchange and Clearing House
Demand Derivatives, a creator of novel derivative instruments, and GMEX Group, a provider of exchange and post-trade technology solutions, are partnering to produce a US regulated futures exchange, RealDemand Board of Trade (RealBOT), and clearing house, RealDemand Clearing (RealClear). The partnership includes GMEX taking a minority equity stake in Demand Derivatives. RealBOT and RealClear are…