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NICE Actimize Adds Trade Reconstruction Solution for MiFID II

NICE Actimize has added a trade reconstruction model to its surveillance portfolio. The solution uses machine learning analytics to classify and understand content based on previous examples and patented automated correlation capabilities to link trade executions to trade conversations. It can cut trade reconstruction time from days to minutes and is designed to support rapid…

Thomson Reuters Adds to DataScope Reference Data to Support MiFID II

Thomson Reuters has extended the reference data on its DataScope platform to help firms comply with Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) requirements. Ahead of the January 3, 2018 MiFID II compliance deadline, Thomson Reuters has added extra information on equities, warrants, options, futures, commodities, funds, government and corporate bonds, collateralised mortgage obligations…

Exegy Adds Feed Handlers to Cover Virtu’s Systematic Internaliser Data Feed

Exegy, has extended its range of real-time market data feed handlers to help clients exploit the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) systematic internaliser (SI) regime. The company’s additional feed handles are for global market maker Virtu Financial’s SI and indications of interest (IOI) data feeds that give users of Exegy’s managed services…

IHS Markit Prepares SI Register to Support MiFID II Reporting

IHS Markit is preparing a registry of systematic internalisers (SIs) to help market participants comply with Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) trade reporting obligations. The SI list will go live at the end of November on Markit’s Counterparty Manager web portal and will detail SIs operating across European Securities and Markets Authority…

Do It Once, Do It Right

By Bill Hodash and Eugene Ing, DTCC Next year will mark a decade since the financial crisis. Since then, a wave of regulatory reforms has been implemented to increase the transparency and resiliency of the financial system, including the mandate to use legal entity identifiers (LEIs) across many jurisdictions. The goal is to ensure that…

Asset Control Integrates DataStax Enterprise to Power Market Data Platform

Asset Control has teamed up with DataStax to deliver a cloud based, NoSQL market and reference data platform. The platform is powered by DataStax Enterprise, integrated with Asset Control’s AC Plus enterprise data management (EDM) solution, and addresses issues around data volume, speed and access. Asset Control considered a number of technologies to support a…

Corvil Tops up MiFID II Solutions with UTC Traceability

Corvil has expanded its Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) product portfolio with a Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) traceability solution that helps market participants monitor and report electronic trading activity. This is key to the EU’s MiFID II and the US Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) regulation, which both come into effect in 2018….

TickTrade Recruits Industry Veteran Kennedy to Run Global Sales

Foreign exchange (FX) trading platform provider, TickTrade Systems, has recruited fintech consultant and business development executive Will Kennedy as its global head of sales and marketing. Kennedy has over 25 years’ senior experience, most recently as a partner with the Toronto-based fintech consultancy Collaborative Financial Services. Before that, he held global business development, management and…

Itiviti and IHS Markit Partner to Produce Integrated ETF Platform

An increase in trading of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has prompted capital markets technology provider Itiviti to partner data analytics specialist IHS Markit to deliver an integrated ETF platform. The solution, Tbricks by Itiviti for Delta One, combines Itiviti’s Tbricks trading system with SOLA, Markit’s ETF data service. Tbricks provides a scalable and customisable trading platform,…

Metamako and Velocimetrics Offer MiFID Compliant Timestamping

Metamako and Velocimetrics have developed a joint solution designed to enable capital markets firms to capture, analyse and precisely timestamp trading data in compliance with the requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). Under the partnership, Metamako’s low-latency network devices aggregate and directly route packets of nanosecond-precision timestamped data to Velocimetrics’ VMX…