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Fine Lines Between FCA and EU on MiFID II
By Dan Barnes UK markets regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has issued its consultation on the implementation of MiFID II, with some significant differences to the rules published by the European Commission, particularly for the buy side. The level of surprise these changes hold for firms will typically depend on their size and investment…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: AI, Machine Learning and the Intelligent EMS
In our ongoing exploration of how to inject intelligence into today’s super-fast, highly regulated and highly competitive markets, we like to pick the brains of practitioners who’ve been at the forefront of innovation in this narrow space. With our Intelligent Trading Summit in London just a few months away – February 2, to be precise…
Anyone for MiFID III?
By Steve Grob, Director of Group Strategy, Fidessa I was chatting with the Reg folks here at Fidessa Towers yesterday and the spectre of MiFID III came up. Before you all jump off the window ledge, there is no official notion of this yet, but when will the regulators feel that their work really is…
Data Management Summit London – Keynotes, Presentations, Panel Sessions, Round Tables and Champagne
Regulation topped the agenda at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit, although it was followed closely by issues including the transformation of data to information, data lineage, utilities, Know Your Customer ( KYC) and client onboarding, data quality, operations models, data stewardship and more! Keynotes and Presentations Introduced by Andrew Delaney, chief content officer…
Itarle Forges Algo Distribution Deal with Celer Technologies
By Zoe Schiff Itarle, a global provider of white labeled, multi-asset algo trading and smart order routing capabilities, has signed a distribution agreement with London-based Celer Technologies. The arrangement is part of Itarle’s strategy of partnering with leading order and execution management systems. Under the terms of the deal, Itarle will release new algorithms through…
All Along the Watchtower: How MiFID II’s Impact on the Front Office Is Driving Banks to Mutualise
By Dan Barnes Bob Dylan’s lyric, ‘There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief,’ resonates in the world of capital markets. It encapsulates the relentless regulatory and systemic turbulence. Under the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) coming into force in 2018, firms active in Europe will be hit with many new…
Thomson Reuters Returns to the EMS Market Through Acquisition of REDI Holdings
Thomson Reuters is returning to the execution management system (EMS) space through a definitive agreement to acquire REDI Holdings and its flagship EMS that provides broker-neutral, cross-asset trade execution capabilities for the buy-side trading community. Here at ITT, we flagged the imminent acquisition of REDI by Thomson Reuters back in June and, sure enough, the…
McKay Brothers Secures Growth Funding via IMC Investment
By Zoe Schiff Microwave connectivity specialist McKay Brothers has secured funding for future growth through a capital injection from Dutch trading technology provider IMC. The investment agreement – announced September 1 – also reaffirms McKay’s continued independence under co-founders Stéphane Tyc and Bob Meade. Terms of the investment weren’t disclosed, but the companies said funds…
Establishing One True Data Voice: Extracting Long Term Benefits from MiFID II Compliance
By Boyke Baboelal, Director of Data Services at Asset Control The delay to the implementation of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) – now pushed back to January 2018 – gives institutions a chance to take a different approach. While many of the issues regarding MiFID II are still up in the air,…
Tumbling Down the Rabbit Hole
By Christian Voigt, Senior Regulatory Adviser at Fidessa With much of the MiFID II Level 2 text close to being finalised, the markets continue to dive even deeper into the details and home in on Level 3 material, such as the Q&As and ESMA guidelines. One such detail lies in the phrase “traded on a…