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Advanced Logic Analytics Discusses Proposals for Compliance and Trading

Advanced Logic Analytics (ALA) plans to meet the data management requirements of regulatory compliance and the trading need for predictive, behavioural and emotional analytics with OneLogic, an analytics platform designed to process and analyse structured and unstructured data big data in real time. We caught up with ALA managing director, Nick Ellis, just a week…

MiFID II Best Execution Presents Challenges and Opportunities

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) raises the bar on best execution, presenting significant data management challenges, but also opportunities to use best execution data to gain competitive edge. Where MiFID required investment managers to show they had taken ‘reasonable’ steps to demonstrate best execution, MiFID II requires ‘sufficient’ steps, suggesting a more…

Silverfinch Builds Data Aggregation Templates into PRIIPS Solution

Silverfinch is building templates designed to aggregate and distribute data required by Packaged Retail Investment and Insurance Products (PRIIPs) regulation for Key Information Documents (KIDs) into its PRIIPs compliance engine. The company plans to finalise the solution following the release of Level 2 Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) that could be published by the European Commission…

Privitar Provides Products to Meet Data Privacy by Design Requirements of GDPR

Privitar is meeting the privacy by design and default principles of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with innovative data privacy solutions that play not only into regulatory compliance, but also into gaining greater value from data, particularly big data. The company’s approach to GDPR data privacy requirements is based on risk mitigation provided by two…

Visible Alpha Adds Corporate Access Through Acquisition

Data correction, analytics and distribution services provider Visible Alpha is adding corporate access information to its services through an acquisition of ONEaccess, an analytics hub that provides corporate access events information and analysis of related interactions between market professionals, according to company officials. Corporate access events include roadshows, conferences, speaking panels and one-on-one meetings. “Prior…

Blockchain: Are we nearly there yet?

By Joshua Satten, Director of Business Consulting, Sapient Global Markets Recently, I led a panel discussion on blockchain case studies at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Asset Managers Forum in New York. The panel presented diverse perspectives on the current state of blockchain across the financial industry with representatives coming from State…

Financial Machineries and Iason Develop Anonymous Benchmarking Service for FRTB

Financial Machineries is collaborating with Italian risk management consultancy Iason to deliver a service that will help banks prove they have enough data to use an internal model for market risk capital calculations required by Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation. Banks that cannot prove they have enough data to use an internal…

Markit EDM Lays Out 2017 Roadmap

Markit EDM, the enterprise data management (EDM) business of Markit that merged with IHS in July 2016, has laid out its roadmap for 2017 including functional expansion of its EDM platform and a focus on delivering improved data visualisation to business users. Working with IHS, a provider of proprietary information, analytics and solutions to a…

ANNA Derivatives Service Bureau Operator Etrading Details Proposed ISIN Fees for OTC Derivatives

The fee model proposed for ISINs issued for OTC derivatives by the Association of National Numbering Agencies’ Derivatives Service Bureau (ANNA DSB) suggests an implied fee of €0.5 for the creation of each ISIN and free access to the ISIN’s attributes once it has been created. The need for ISINs for OTC derivatives arises from…

Nascent Exchange IPSX Implements GoldenSource Cloud EDM Platform

The International Property Securities Exchange (IPSX) is working with GoldenSource to implement the software vendor’s cloud-based enterprise data management (EDM) platform ahead of its planned launch towards the middle of this year. The exchange still needs approval from the Financial Conduct Authority, but expects to be the first regulated exchange dedicated to the admission and…