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BIS Publishes New Guidance on CDE Governance
The Bank of International Settlements (BIS), parent of the Basel Committee, has published new guidance on global governance arrangements to harmonise the usage and reporting of critical OTC derivatives data elements (CDE). The new guidelines follow the decision taken by the G20 back in 2009 requiring all OTC derivatives transactions to be reported to trade…
Industry Collaboration on RegTech Could Ease Challenges of Adoption
RegTech adoption is challenged by firms having no time for new initiatives, integration problems with legacy systems, and the risk of investing in solutions that aren’t fully proven – but there are upsides to the technology and its acceptance could be accelerated by a vendor checklist of what is required from a RegTech provider and…
Trade Surveillance Under MAD/MAR, MiFID II and Other Global Regulations
By Peter Lawrey, CEO at Chronicle Software. Regulations like MiFID II and the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) in Europe, and Dodd Frank in the US, have raised the bar with respect to trade surveillance as regulators seek to boost transparency and investor protections across the board. This has created the need for financial institutions to…
The Emerging Challenges of Compliant Communications
At the jam-packed RegTech Summit London held in St Paul’s last week, Paul Liesching, global head of financial markets at Truphone, gave the room a whistle-stop tour of the current key challenges for electronic communication in terms of trade surveillance – and how to fix them. With technology becoming ever more ‘consumerised’ the tools of…
FCA Sets Out Latest Expectations for Firms on Brexit
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is hustling to keep up with the ever-changing goalposts of the UK’s departure from the EU – and with the political landscape shifting day to day, that is no easy task. In a bid to clarify requirements and calm understandable nerves within the industry, the regulator has issued new…
Managing Regulatory Change and Driving Efficiencies – A Debate
As the volume of regulation continues to increase, with regulators not always managing to achieve consistency across frameworks and jurisdictions, how can financial institutions keep up with the ever-changing requirements – and match compliance needs that can sometimes feel conflicting? In one of the most popular panels of the day at the recent RegTech Summit…
S&P Global Market Intelligence Adds Textual Data Analytics to Xpressfeed
S&P Global Market Intelligence has added Textual Data Analytics (TDA), which applies natural language processing (NLP) to unstructured data and generates sentiment scores and behavioural metrics based on company transcripts, to Xpressfeed. The textual data analytics provide alternative datasets to support investment decisions and add to machine readable transcripts already available through Xpressfeed. The TDA…
CUNA Mutual Group Implements IHS Markit Solutions as a Cloud-based Managed Service
CUNA Mutual Group, an insurance and financial services company working with cooperatives, credit unions, their members, and other customers worldwide, is following the industry trend of decreasing supplier numbers, moving to the cloud, and consolidating end-to-end solutions as it replaces its front-office trade management system. The company has selected IHS Markit to fulfil its need…
BNP Paribas Builds Cortex LIVE FX Platform on OpenFin OS
BNP Paribas has built and deployed a single dealer FX platform, Cortex LIVE, on the OpenFin OS, which is designed to support desktop interoperability. Based on OpenFin OS, Cortex LIVE offers users intelligent execution methods, transparency and enhanced controls. It also features a real-time market intelligence portal, Insight LIVE, as well as data visualisation and…
genesis Offers Platform-as-a-Service for Low Code Application Development
genesis has expanded its microservices-based infrastructure with business components and a set of tools to deliver genesis platform, a low code application development platform designed for capital markets and able to produce robust, secure products and solutions at unprecedented speed by radically reducing coding. The genesis platform is designed to helps clients address highly complex…