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COVID-19 Sees CUSIP Requests Surge as Corporate Borrowers Seek Liquidity
Request volume for CUSIP’s corporate debt identifiers was up 6% last month, marking a spike of interest as corporate borrowers seek access to liquidity during the challenging climate of COVID-19. The CUSIP Issuance Trends Report for March 2020, which tracks the issuance of new security identifiers as an early indicator of debt and capital markets…
Life After LIBOR – Keep Calm and Cover Your Contracts
The use of LIBOR is drawing to a close – but will you be a winner or a loser when it comes to dealing with the data management fallout from the transition? The move away from the world’s most widely-used interbank rate is raising all sorts of data challenges – and with considerable ambiguity remaining…
Aquis Adds Market Structure Analytics via Big Xyt
Pan-European equities market Aquis Exchange is adding market structure analytics based on big xyt’s Liquidity Cockpit data analysis platform. Aquis will make the analytics available for use internally and by clients to power independent analysis of liquidity and market share. According to Jonathan Clelland, COO, Aquis Exchange will use Liquidity Cockpit “to understand and develop…
Industry Associations Warn that COVID-19 Could Cause Problems for SRD II
The International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) has joined forces with a multitude of other industry associations to urge a 12-month delay in the implementation of the regulation, laid out in an open letter to the European Commission. Currently scheduled to come into force on 3 September 2020, the regulation is an amendment to SRD I…
Evidology Integrates RegTech Platform with Microsoft Office 365
London-based compliance management specialist Evidology Systems has integrated its second-generation RegTech platform QED with Office 365, bringing the visibility of principles-based regulations into daily business workflows. The QED (Quality and Evidence Driven) platform, launched back in November 2019, combines real-time specialist legal opinion with principles-based regulations compliance software. Using an industry-standard visualisation tool and intranet…
FCA Business Priorities Could Be Derailed By COVID-19
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has laid out its business priorities for the year ahead, but warns that it will focus on the challenges presented by the coronavirus epidemic, which could lead to a shift in priorities as the year progresses. The FCA identifies four primary objectives for the coming year: including enabling effective consumer…
COVID-19: Regulator Round-up (20 April)
In these days of unprecedented economic pressure and accompanying financial volatility, regulators around the world are realigning their priorities and rapidly shifting their strategies to support institutions through the ongoing crisis. In this regular weekly feature, we keep you up to date on the latest regulatory news, responses and approaches – from deadline delays to…
How Financial Markets are Maintaining Resilience During COVID-19
By David Brown, Chief Operating Officer, IPC. We are indeed living through unprecedented times, with the COVID-19 virus impacting all major trading locations around the globe simultaneously. Traders at financial institutions may already be working at home in self-isolation, or else unable to work as they are ill. Others, able to travel and classified as…
Altair Streamlines Panopticon Visualisation Deployment with New Release
Altair has simplified the deployment and expansion for users of its Panopticon visualisation tool with a major new version release. Panopticon 2020 for the first time offers users a singular view into the full application lifecycle, allowing them more easily to create user-generated content, dashboards and analytical applications. The Panopticon platform is used by financial…
QuantHouse Automates Global Operations with Cloud-Based Robot Agents
QuantHouse, a provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including market data services, algo trading platform and infrastructure products, has completed the first phase of its infrastructure process automation programme using cloud-based robot agents. It remains crucial during times of uncertainty and volatility that infrastructures operate reliably, efficiently and have the necessary scale to meet ever-growing…