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TORA Partners Trax to Support MiFID II Trade and Transaction Reporting
TORA has extended its provision of MiFID II solutions through a partnership with Trax, the European market data division of MarketAxess. The partnership will combine TORA’s order and execution management system (OEMS) with the Trax regulatory reporting engine to provide users with straight through processing for the trade and transaction reporting requirements of MiFID II….
IRTA and The Disruption House Partner to Push Forward RegTech Adoption
The International RegTech Association (IRTA) and The Disruption House (TDH) have partnered to support accelerated adoption of regtech solutions in financial services. The partnership gives IRTA members access to the TDH Scorecard service at a discounted rate. The scorecard service provides independent, detailed analysis on a company and its technology, together with analytical commentary on…
GDPR Week One: Outstanding Data Management Challenges and a Quick Start Solution
The May 25, 2018 deadline for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may have come and gone, but the compliance journey is only just beginning as firms review systems built to get them over the line and plan more robust and sustainable solutions that can support a cost-efficient response to data subject access requests and accommodate…
Sheena Clark Extends Remit with Role of Managing Director at BCC Group
Sheena Clark, founder of Financial Machineries, has extended her remit by partnering BCC Group and becoming UK managing director of the company. At BCC, Clark is responsible for all global client activities around the group’s ONE Solution financial data enterprise platform and its market data cloud solutions. She will use her extensive market knowledge and…
Improving Operational Efficiency in the Data Management Process
By: Hugo Boer, Senior Product Manager, Asset Control As the financial services industry starts to harness a raft of new data sources for fast, effective and usable insights, the bottleneck for financial institutions becomes how well they really understand their data management processes. How many firms, for example, can answer the following questions: Do we…
Smartkarma’s Boost Research Provides Business Accelerator for Investment Analysts
Smartkarma, an investment research network for independent research providers, has introduced Boost Research, an accelerator programme designed to support investment analysts who want to start independent research businesses, improve the supply of independent research to the market, and increase the variety of opinions in research to help investment decisions and lead to better outcomes for…
Market EarlyBird Adds Mobile Version of Safe, Smart Twitter for Tweet Searches
Market EarlyBird has introduced a native mobile client for EarlyBird Safe, Smart Twitter for Finance, a read-only, anonymised service that provides Tweet search and filtering capabilities enabling users to find financial Tweets that others miss. The initial desktop Earlybird service is being used by banks and buy-side firms to enable traders, researchers and portfolio managers…
IHS Markit Repositions Business with Acquisition of Ipreo and Sale of MarkitSERV
It’s all change at IHS Markit as the company pushes further into the alternatives market through an agreement to acquire Ipreo and plans to move out of OTC derivatives processing through a sale of its MarkitSERV derivatives trade processing business. The company has agreed to acquire Ipreo, a provider of financial services technology, data and…
Final Call for Comments on FRTB Capital Requirements for Market Risk
The January 1, 2022 implementation deadline of Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation may be three years out, but the data management challenges of compliance need to be considered now. Most importantly, a BCBS consultation paper on the standardised approach to calculating minimum capital requirements for OTC derivatives needs urgent industry input on…
A Ticking Clock: The Tricky Issue of Timestamping for MiFID II
MiFID II has introduced rigorous new requirements for timestamping and clock synchronisation, forcing firms to overhaul existing technology and implement new systems to comply. Accuracy is everything – but how successful has the industry been in meeting the tighter demands? In advance of A-Team’s webinar on timestamping and clock synchronisation tomorrow, we take a quick look…