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Lighter Regulatory Reform is an Opportunity for Data Management Best Practice
By Martijn Groot, Vice President of Product Strategy, Asset Control The implications of a potential roll back on regulation, from Dodd-Frank to a new level of commitment to European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) and Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) as a result of Brexit negotiations, are hard to predict. While regulatory compliance,…
Enterprise Data Management and Data Governance – Two sides of the same coin?
By Andrew Sexton, sales and marketing director, Curium Data Systems There is no doubt that data governance is rising up the agenda at many financial institutions, driven both by an increasing regulatory focus on good data as well as a firm’s internal focus on improving data quality and applying ‘fit for purpose’ data to key…
GoldenSource Integrates eXtremeDB to Speed Up Regulatory Response
GoldenSource has integrated its Risk Master platform with McObject’s eXtremeDB to deliver an enterprise data management (EDM) solution capable of responding to regulations demanding fast access to vast data volumes. Initial use cases of the integration include compliance with Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation and the best execution elements of Markets in…
MiFID II Drives Widespread Market Data Operations Changes
As the largest European exchanges, along with many other European trading venues, change or update systems to be compliant with MiFID II provisions concerning best execution, firms are finding they must also update the way they interact with these exchanges and venues. Market data and automated trading order execution systems provider Redline Trading Solutions has…
Singapore Firm Adds Ullink Post-Trade System
Singapore-based asset management company Village Capital, which invests mainly in Japanese equities, recently began using Xtrain, a Ullink system which addresses post-trade functions including trade reconciliation, reporting and performance data management. Village Capital chose Xtrain, after already using Ullink’s Xilix execution management system, to stop performing post-trade functions completely manually, as it had been. Taking…
IHS Markit Builds out MiFID II Product Portfolio
IHS Markit’s collaboration with Deloitte on MiFID II counterparty entity classification and terms of business repapering builds out the company’s MiFID II product portfolio, which already includes transaction reporting based on the IHS Markit enterprise data management (EDM) solution. The Deloitte collaboration follows IHS Markit’s introduction of the Outreach360 regulatory compliance communication platform last month…
IHS Markit and Deloitte Partner, Addressing MiFID II Compliance and Re-papering
Building on its launch of the Outreach360 regulatory compliance communication platform last month, information and analytics solutions provider IHS Markit has partnered with Deloitte to make the consultancy’s regulatory advisory expertise available as a managed service on the platform, according to officials of the companies. The partnership of IHS Markit and Deloitte is offering MiFID…
Listen to the Experts on MiFID II Research Unbundling
With just six months to go before the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) compliance deadline, many financial firms are struggling to pin down the research unbundling requirements of the regulation. Key challenges to implementation include measuring the value of research, establishing a pricing system and building a compliant solution. MiFID II research…
KYC/AML Innovation Waits On MiFID II
Efforts to conduct know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) operations more efficiently are more likely to begin after the financial services industry is better prepared for regulatory deadlines coming at the beginning of 2018, like MiFID II, said William Hartnett, managing director for market infrastructure investments at Citi, who spoke on a panel about the…
OTCX-SimCorp Partnership Takes On MiFID II Compliance
OTC derivatives multi-dealer platform OTCX’s recently announced partnership with investment management solutions provider SimCorp makes the OTCX Request For Quote (RFQ) platform more widely available – and capitalises on the platform’s value for MiFID II compliance, according to Nicolas Koechlin, CEO of OTCX. “We started the OTCX concept a little before MiFID II kicked in,”…