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Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: It’s a MAD MAD / MAR MAR World
Here in Canary Wharf, at least, all of the ongoing fuss about Brexit distracted us from a key regulatory milestone: the introduction on July 4 for the EU’s Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), the real-life incarnation of its earlier foray into financial crime: the Market Abuse Directive (MAD). We could all be forgiven for worrying about…
Corvil and Abide Collaborate to Support MiFID II Real-Time Reporting Obligation
Corvil is working with regulatory reporting provider Abide Financial to help firms comply with regulations that include a real-time reporting obligation such as Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). The partnership also reduces risk by reconciling middle and back office transaction data with a record of each order message that is sent and…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: The British Love a Good Farce
A week after the referendum sent us into Brexit, there remain more questions than answers on what will become of the UK and – more pertinently for us – the City of London’s trading community. No-one truly knows how this will play out. We may collectively remain in the dark for some time. Many Remainers…
A-Team Webinar Discusses Data Management Challenges of MiFID II
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) continues to pose major challenges as financial institutions build compliance programmes designed to manage huge volumes of data required by the regulation while waiting for final technical and implementation standards from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). The implications of MiFID II for data management –…
Financial Institutions Regroup to Consider Outcomes of Brexit
After the shock of last week’s ‘leave’ vote in the European Union referendum and a weekend to reflect on the outcome, financial institutions across the UK are considering big picture scenarios that could result from Brexit and putting together governance frameworks designed to help them manage events as they unfold. While there is no certainty…
A-Team Webinar Discusses Data Management Challenges of Client Onboarding and KYC
Increasing cost, complexity and regulatory change continue to challenge firms implementing client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) systems, but with a focus on data management and data quality many are developing successful solutions that meet compliance requirements and support business strategy. Webinar Recording: Listen to the recent Client onboarding and KYC: the data management…
New Gold Dream: A Consolidated Tape for European Bond Prices
Everybody wants it, somebody should build it, anybody could build it, yet nobody wants to pay for it. The story of Europe’s consolidated price tape for equities, first mooted under the original 2007 Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) is a logical conundrum, in part because regulators are predetermining market structure where no commercial imperative…
Silverfinch Extends Data Model to Deliver PRIIPs KID Compliance Solution
Silverfinch has extended the data distribution utility it developed for the look-through element of Solvency II to provide a data exchange capability that meets the requirements of the forthcoming Key Information Document (KID) regulation for Packaged Retail Investment and Insurance Products (PRIIPs). The regulation comes into force on January 1st 2017 and requires PRIIPs manufacturers…
SAP and AxiomSL Combine SAP HANA with AxiomSL Regulatory Reporting Platform
SAP and AxiomSL have integrated the SAP HANA in-memory database and AxiomSL regulatory reporting platform to deliver a solution that is fast to implement and lowers the cost of regulatory reporting for SAP HANA users. The integration is AxiomSL’s first with another vendor product and is part of a strategic move to integrate the company’s…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: A Glimpse into the Mysterious World of ION Trading
Financial Technology Partners’ announcement this month of its client Carlyle Group’s recent $400 million acquisition of a ‘minority stake’ in ION Investment Group offered an interesting glimpse into the capabilities of the secretive Irish trading technology specialist. The FTP announcement, issued on June 3, quoted Cam Dyer, managing director of Carlyle’s Global Technology, Media and…