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ABN Amro Clearing Bank Distributes Fidessa Derivatives EMS
ABN Amro Clearing Bank has extended its relationship with Fidessa to allow the clearer to distribute the software vendor’s derivatives execution management system (EMS). This follows ABN Amro’s 2016 harmonisation of its global multi-asset market access by replacing numerous vendor and in-house systems with Fidessa’s XTP technology, and means the clearer can now present clients…
RJO’Brien’s Bradley Giemza Discusses Regulation, RegTech and Cool Start-Ups
A-Team Group’s hugely successful RegTech Summit for Capital Markets in London is on its way to New York, where keynote speakers will include Bradley Giemza, chief risk officer at RJO’Brien. Ahead of the event on Thursday November 16, 2017, we caught up with Giemza to find out his views on RegTech and its potential. Q:…
Trading Technologies Moves into Surveillance Through Neurensic Acquisition
Trading Technologies (TT) has moved into the surveillance market through the acquisition of Neurensic, an artificial intelligence (AI) regtech providing a solution for trading, compliance, surveillance and banking. Founded in 2015, Neurensic provides an AI platform for identifying complex patterns of trading behaviour at a vast scale, across multiple markets, in near real time. The…
LiquidityBook Moves Infrastructure into the AWS Cloud
LiquidityBook has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) community having completed the migration of its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) buy- and sell-side trading solutions to the cloud provider’s global data centres. As a result, the company has points of presence in AWS regions in the US and Europe, and ability to scale up globally across Europe, the…
Revista Arrives in the UK with MiFID II Record Management Solution
Revista Systems, a provider of communications convergence management (CCM) technology to the financial services community, has opened its doors in the UK. The company’s CCM solution creates a record management repository that links every transaction relating to enquiries and trades, from inception to settlement, and plays into the record retention requirements of Markets in Financial…
Vienna Stock Exchange Joins Community of Scila Surveillance Users
The Vienna Stock Exchange has agreed a five-year deal to use Scila Surveillance technology to combat insider dealing, attempted market manipulation and other market abuses. The exchange joins a roster of global exchanges including London Stock Exchange, New York Stock Exchange and the Deutsche Börse that use the Stockholm-based company’s solution. Scila Surveillance provides trading…
Brexit and the UK Data Protection Bill: How does it impact you?
By Dennis Slattery, CEO at EDMworks On September 13, the UK government introduced in Parliament the Data Protection Bill. Its purpose is to implement a comprehensive data privacy framework for the UK in the post-Brexit environment. The scope of the bill covers: Implementing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into UK law Implementing the EU…
SmartStream and RegTek.Solutions Combine to Offer Reconcile.Trade
SmartStream and RegTek.Solutions have combined products to deliver Reconcile.Trade, a service providing turnkey reconciliation solutions for global regulatory reporting. RegTek brings trade and transaction reporting software to the service, and SmartStream its reconciliations platform. Reconcile.Trade is designed to meet regulatory demand for proactive oversight of trade and transaction reporting, and supports Markets in Financial Instruments…
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…
QuantHouse Partners NPL to Meet MiFID II Demands for Precise Trade Timing
QuantHouse has partnered with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK’s national measurement institute, to offer its clients the NPLTime traceable timestamping service. The service will enable users to evidence the exact moment a trade was executed to within 1 microsecond. This plays well into Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), which requires…