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Smart Machines: A $10 Trillion Capacity Windfall or a $10 Trillion Jobs Deficit?
By Adam Devine, VP Product Marketing, WorkFusion Predictable, monotonous data work costs the United States, Canada and Europe over $10 trillion of human intelligence each year, and that number is growing. You know the kind of work: a data analyst sitting in front of two screens, one flashing an endless stream of unstructured content, the…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: It’s MiFID II Time!
Hot on the heels of our highly successful Trade Europe Now! white paper (sponsored by Interxion and available for free download here), yesterday we released our latest missive on MiFID II. Titled ‘MiFID II: Practical Considerations for Gainful Compliance’, the paper is sponsored by ORC Group, and like it says on the tin it offers…
Perseus Acknowledges MiFID II Time Synchronisation Standards as Fair and Reasonable
Changes made to recommendations on time synchronisation in the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) latest technical standards for MiFID II have been welcomed by Perseus, a provider of managed services including PrecisionSync time services, and recognised as being fair and reasonable. While previous ESMA recommendations suggested nanosecond clock synchronisation for electronic trading, the standards…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: A Symphony of Paper Tigers
Some of us were encouraged – relieved, even – to read on various non-value-added news ‘services’ (PR wires?) about the success of the Symphony trader messaging collaboration in securing financial support from Google Alphabet, the new incubator-type funding organisation supported by You Know Who. We were pleased because Google’s support clearly indicated to us that…
The Search for Liquidity in Corporate Debt Markets
This is a contributed article from Andrew Howieson, an advisor to FactEntry. Corporate bond markets are inherently illiquid There is now wide recognition that corporate debt markets lack sufficient liquidity to meet investor trading requirements. Blackrock’s September 2014 paper Corporate Bond Market Structure: The Time for Reform is Now described the trading market structure as…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: The European Question
The marketplace is whirring with great minds turning their attention to what the latest ESMA rules for MiFID II actually mean. We’re not sure anyone has completely figured that out yet, but we’ll be watching closely as we’re embroiled in a number of projects that are impacted to various degrees by the latest ESMA utterances,…
Final ESMA Report on MiFID II and MiFIR Technical Standards Recommends XML and ISO 20022 for Regulatory Data Reporting
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final report on Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) for Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR). The report covers many aspects of the directive and regulation, and concludes debate over market data reporting, recommending that transaction and instrument reference…
A-Team Data Management Summit: Challenges and Opportunities of Regulation
Regulatory compliance deadlines in January 2016 and 2017 are a challenge for data managers, but also an opportunity to develop data management strategies that deliver business benefits. A panel session at next week’s A-Team Data Management Summit in London will debate these issues and look at how firms are getting ready to meet the deadlines….
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: News You(r Execution Server) Can Use
We enjoyed an electric session this week with Bloomberg on what we used to call machine-readable news. Along with our own excellent webinar on Big Data last week – where we heard from, among others, Thomson Reuters Starmine’s Adam Baron on event-driven research – the seminar at Liverpool Street’s Andaz Studio offered some fascinating insight…
Opinion: Which standards for regulating the future?
By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team This week, ESMA is expected to issue the final technical standards for MiFID II and MiFIR that it will propose to the European Commission for approval. The standards can then be implemented by investment firms in…