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Could EU Probe of LSE’s Refinitiv Acquisition Force Spin-Off of TradeWeb?
The European Commission’s investigation into the London Stock Exchange’s proposed $27 billion acquisition of Refinitiv under the EU Merger Regulation – announced this week – will examine potential competitive issues stemming from the parties’ respective ownership of market-leading European government bond trading platforms MTS and TradeWeb, respectively. The commission says it has ‘horizonal concerns’ about…
SmartStream RDU Launches API to Get Firms Over the SFTR Finish Line
Transaction Lifecycle Management specialist SmartStream has extended its Reference Data Utility (RDU) SFTR service to include a new API targeting firms who need fast access to the technology and data needed need to meet ESMA’s delayed SFTR reporting deadline of July 13. The API gives access to new tools to validate reference data content during…
ITRS Group to Save Firms 35% on Cloud Spend with ‘Right-Sizing’ Solution
While Covid-19 is forcing many firms to make massive cutbacks to staff and resources, the majority are unknowingly wasting around 35% of cloud spend at any one time thanks to a lack of oversight over their increasingly complex cloud estates. This equates to $80 billion of total global cloud spend down the drain every year…
SIX Extends ANNA Contract, Announces Cloud Upgrade
SIX has renewed its contract with the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) to serve as a co-operator of the ANNA Service Bureau (ASB) through to December 2024, along with CUSIP Global Services. SIX and CUSIP Global Services will jointly facilitate an extensive enhancement to ASB’s existing Portal Tech Infrastructure, resulting in improved communication and…
Cappitech Joins Forces with REGIS-TR for End-to-End Service
EU trade repository REGIS-TR and Cappitech, a regulatory reporting service provider, have confirmed a new collaboration to deliver a streamlined, end-to-end regulatory reporting service. The partnership will link the two firms’ complimenting services for the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR), the European Market Infrastructure Regulation, and its UK iteration, along with Switzerland’s Financial Market Infrastructure…
SFTR Approvals Could Cast a Spanner in the Works
With the delayed go-live date for the EU’s SFTR regulation less than a month away, the pressure is once again on as firms scramble to get ready for their new regulatory reporting requirements, pushed back from April 2020 due to coronavirus. And while most firms should be well into the testing phase by now, there…
Index Data Figures Highly in EU Probe of LSE’s Refinitiv Acquisition
The European Commission has launched an investigation into Refinitiv’s proposed acquisition by the London Stock Exchange under the EU Merger Regulation. High among the EU’s main preliminary concerns are fears that Refinitiv’s strengths in providing data feeds and other inputs into index providers’ calculations could put competitors at a disadvantage have emerged as a key…
Altair Boosts Monarch Platform for Data Preparation for Analytics
US data analysis provider Altair is continuing its series of major software releases with a new version of its Altair Monarch data integration and preparation platform. The upgrade, which boosts Monarch’s ability to handle data from a range of formats and prepare it for data analysis and machine learning predictions, follows new releases of Altair’s…
IPC to Leverage OpenFin OS for Voice App Store
New York-based voice and electronic trading communications solutions provider IPC has entered into a strategic partnership with financial operating system OpenFin in order to develop access to its applications and data solutions across its 110,000+ global user community. Through IPC’s “Voice App Store,” traders and other regulated users will be able to leverage IPC-developed applications…
Enyx Seeks to Democratize FPGA Development with New nxFramework
Low Latency solutions provider Enyx has launched a nxFramework, a standardardized, ultra-low latency FPGA development framework aimed at addressing the complexity of deploying FPGA in high-performance trading environments. According to Enyx CEO Arnaud Derasse, the company expects the new framework will allow it to reach a new generation of potential users seeking to add hardware-based solutions…