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Thomson Reuters Reports the Impact of RegTech on Compliance
Thomson Reuters will release the results of its second global survey assessing the impact of regtech and fintech on the role of compliance in financial services firms at this week’s A-Team Group RegTech Summit for Capital Markets in New York. The survey included compliance and risk practitioners from nearly 800 financial services firms across the…
A RegTech Solution to Record Management and Archiving
Yaron Naor, vice president and general manager, Americas, at Arkivum will present the company’s regtech record management and archiving solution based on open source and proprietary technologies at this week’s A-Team Group RegTech Summit for Capital Markets in New York. We caught up with Naor before the event to find out a little about Arkivum’s…
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…
Opus and Fenergo Team Up To Minimise Risks of KYC and AML
Opus and Fenergo have teamed up to provide an end-to-end Know Your Customer (KYC) system for running anti-money laundering (AML) checks on new clients. Under the partnership, Opus will feed external data – including sanctions lists, business news, market research, and economic and shareholder information – into Fenergo’s risk scoring and client lifecycle management (CLM)…
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…
LEI Smart Offers RegTech Solution for Legal Entity Identifier Requirements
Adoption of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is soaring in response to its requirement for trade reporting under Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), which takes effect on January 3, 2018. Ben Lis, founder of regtech start-up LEI Smart, will showcase the company’s LEI solution at next week’s A-Team Group RegTech Summit for…
ICE Partners ITRS to Offer Real-Time Monitoring of Global Data Feeds
ICE Data Services has agreed a global partnership with ITRS that enables it to offer real-time monitoring to users of its 450-plus market data feeds. Under the partnership, clients of ICE’s Consolidated Feed – which combines content from over 450 markets into a single platform – can use ITRS’s Geneos service to monitor their data…
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…
RegTech API Fortress Focuses on Fast and Accurate Data Delivery
In a financial world driven by data, delivery is critical. Ahead of next week’s RegTech showcase at A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit for Capital Markets in New York, we talked to Patrick Poulin, CEO of regtech API Fortress about the company’s views on application programming interfaces (APIs) and its platform for API testing automation. Q: What…
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….