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SIP Operating Committees Add Three Advisory Committee Members
The US Securities Information Processors’ (SIPs’) Operating Committees have recruited three new members to contribute retail investor perspective to their 11-member Advisory Committee: Chris Nielsen, managing director, Charles Schwab & Co.; W. Todd Watkins, director, E*TRADE Financial; and Matt Billings, managing director, TD Ameritrade. The SIP Operating Committees govern the entities that operate the systems…
Schroders Selects The Disruption House to Assess New Tech Vendors
Global investment house Schroders has become the first asset manager to partner with specialist benchmarking and data analytics provider The Disruption House (TDH) to assess the capabilities of new technology providers. TDH says the aim is to “support Schroders’ innovation agenda and assist the firm in its goal of engaging more start-ups”. “We are committed…
RSRCHXchange Adds Analyst Interaction to MiFID II Research Marketplace
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Institutional research aggregator RSRCHXchange has added an analyst interaction functionality to its platform, allowing research providers to book and sell meetings, calls, webinars and conferences to asset management and other buy-side firms. The initiative aims to help firms consuming research in compliance with MiFID II unbundling to choose services from…
JNAM Adopts Hosted GoldenSource Solution for N-PORT, N-CEN Data Compliance
Jackson National Asset Management (JNAM) has selected GoldenSource to provide a fully hosted data management platform to help meet its regulatory obligations. Specifically, the asset manager, a subsidiary of Jackson National Life Insurance, will use the GoldenSource platform to meet requirements for structured data elements inherent in the impending form N-PORT and N-CEN filings with…
The Digital Transformation of Financial Reporting: Why XBRL Should be on Everyone’s Radar
By Ken Krupa, Chief Technology Officer, MarkLogic The standard corporate financial reporting language known as eXtensible Business Reporting Language, or XBRL, has been around for more than 20 years. Based on the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), XBRL is a common global mechanism for communicating and sharing data across…
Fonetic Names Child, Broderick, Blower to New Advisory Board
Voice systems provider has created an advisory board to tap industry expertise on the use of technology in regulatory compliance and market surveillance. To kick off the initiative, the company has recruited three industry executives: Nick Child, former Citi markets compliance head, who will act as chairman; Sandy Broderick, ex-Société Générale MD; and Oliver Blower,…
FlexTrade Adopts SmartStream RDU’s SI Registry for MiFID II Compliance
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter FlexTrade has integrated SmartStream RDU’s Systematic Internaliser (SI) Registry into the FlexTrader execution management system (EMS) to help FlexTrade customers comply with new MiFID II reporting regulations coming into force from September 2018. The development will allow FlexTrade clients to ascertain the SI status of counterparties before they decide to…
Post-Trade for ETDs: The Final Frontier for Buy-Side Operational Efficiency?
The fund management industry’s shift to passive funds and embrace of smart-beta funds over the past decade or so has shaved margins to the extreme. In this environment, operational efficiency becomes an existential issue. Across a broad swathe of asset classes, front-office technologies have kept pace with massive changes in market structure driven by regulation…
NorthRow Joins FCA Regulatory Sandbox
Regtech and compliance specialist NorthRow has been selected to join the fourth cohort of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)’s Regulatory Sandbox, an initiative launched in 2015 to provide a channel for businesses to test products and services in a controlled and customised live market environment. NorthRow (formerly Contego) delivers customer onboarding through a combination of…
Managed Services and the Evolving Operating Model
By Liz Blake, Global Head of Eagle Managed Services According to a recent Experian white paper, ‘Building a Business Case for Data Quality’, 83% of organisations have seen bad data stand in the way of reaching key business objectives. In particular, the research identified lost sales opportunities, inefficient processes, and client relationships as among the…