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AFME Publishes Recommendations to Improve CSDR Settlement Rates
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has published recommendations for partial settlement in view of the impending Central Securities Depository Regulation (CSDR), currently due to come into force in September this year but widely expected to be delayed until February 2021. The recommendations aim to encourage greater and more harmonised use of partial…
TRAction Rolls Out New Regulatory Reporting Solution
Regulatory reporting specialist TRAction has launched a new MiFID II reporting solution utilising Refinitiv data to help UK and European investment managers meet Best Execution requirements. With around a fifth of all investment firms in talks with the FCA about errors in their transaction reporting under MiFID II, according to an FOI request carried about…
Libor Transition: Have You Thought About FRTB Yet?
It comes as no surprise that the ongoing Libor transition is posing and will continue to pose massive data management challenges for banks and affected financial institutions – many of which we have already covered in detail in these pages. But one factor that might perhaps have been overlooked is the impact of the LIBOR…
The Cloud Has Important Trading Use Cases, Say Speakers at TradingTech Summit 2020
The rapidly evolving role of the cloud within trading operations at financial services organizations was one of the key themes of TradingTech Summit 2020, an A-Team Group event, held in London in late February. Over the course of the day, speakers addressed a wide range of aspects of cloud usage within the overall technology infrastructure…
Hg Acquires Stakes in SmartTrade
French trading platform supplier SmartTrade last month quietly announced that private equity firm Hg had acquired stakes in the company from existing investors Keensight Capital and Pléiade Venture. SmartTrade isn’t saying much about the deal but in a statement reported that the existing management team under CEO David Vincent will remain in place and as…
Broadridge Acquires FundsLibrary in European Data Push
Broadridge Financial Solutions has completed its acquisition of European fund data specialist FundsLibrary in a bid to boost its pan-European regulatory communications and digital data platform, which supports the lifecycle of fund data, documents, and regulatory reporting for the investment industry. FundsLibrary’s solutions enable fund managers to increase distribution opportunities and help them comply with…
FCA Sees Suspicious Transactions Decline for 2019
The UK financial watchdog has seen the number of suspicious transactions and order reports (STORs) go down for the first time since 2016, according to its latest STORs report for December 2019. The regulator suggests that more robust steps taken by firms to tackle financial crime risks could be part of the reason for the…
Last Minute Preparations for SFTR: Are You Ready Yet?
The clock is ticking, and the initial SFTR deadline is barely a month away – but with delays, regulatory opacity and widespread industry concerns around the data challenges posed by such a substantial change, is an April implementation even achievable? Tactical approaches to compliance won’t be good enough. A strategic plan of attack is necessary…
VIDEO: Delivering Value Through Data with Edosa Odaro
Over the past few years, there seems to have been a noticeable change of guard – across industries – with some established organisations struggling to stay above water, whilst some new challenger organisations are conversely thriving. In this video snippet Edosa Odaro, Former Head of Data Services for AXA and Keynote Speaker at the upcoming…
Industry Testing Will Determine Success of SFTR Compliance
By Val Wotton, Managing Director, Product Development & Strategy, RDS at DTCC. When English art historian John Ruskin wrote, “Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort,” he was writing about Venetian architecture, rather than financial regulation. However, Ruskin’s endorsement of forethought and preparation are applicable to the preparations necessary…