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AllianceBernstein Selects ICE Liquidity Indicators to Aid with Regulatory Compliance

AllianceBernstein (AB) has selected ICE Data Services’ ICE Liquidity Indicators service to help support its investment management, liquidity risk management and regulatory compliance obligations. Market participants are addressing liquidity as a risk factor in the fixed income markets and seeking ways to comply with regulations such as SEC’s Liquidity Risk Management Rule, which in part…

Eurex and Vela Partner to Deliver Improvements to Eurex EnLight

Europe’s largest futures and options exchange, Eurex, has joined forces with trading and market access technology provider Vela to enhance electronic access to its selective request-for-quote (RFQ) platform Eurex EnLight through Vela’s Metro Trading Platform. Eurex EnLight is an off-book trading service for listed derivatives launched in December 2017 to provide market participants with a…

GLEIF Releases Beta Version 2.0 of the LEI Search Tool

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) continues to build out services around the LEI with the introduction of a beta version 2.0 of the LEI search tool. Version 2.0 allows users to explore information on more than 1.3 million organisations contained in the public LEI data pool and provides enhanced functionality including the option…

ESMA Issues Latest Double Volume Cap Data for MiFID II

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has updated its public register with the latest set of double volume cap (DVC) data under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II). The December updates include DVC data and calculations for the period of November 1, 2017 to October 31, 2018 as well as updates to…

US Regulators Urge Innovation to Combat Financial Crime

A group of US regulators have banded together to support the use of technology and innovation by financial institutions to meet their Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance obligations, effectively fighting financial crime and strengthening the financial system against illicit activity. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal…

MUFG Europe Selects Wolters Kluwer for Regulatory Reporting

MUFG Europe, the European subsidiary of Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Group, has selected Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX software to manage a number of regulatory and risk reporting obligations, including AnaCredit and Interest Rate Risk in The Banking Book (IRRBB), for its Dutch and German business lines. The bank is an existing user of OneSumX, which uses a…

A-Team Group Names Winners of 2018 Data Management Awards

A-Team Group has announced the winners of its 2018 Data Management Awards. The annual awards, now in their sixth year, are designed to recognise leading providers of data management solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants. See the full list of winners below. The awards were hosted by Sarah Underwood, Editor of A-Team’s Data…

KeyBanc Capital Markets Adopts Bloomberg’s DASH Enterprise Trading Workflow Solution

KeyBanc Capital Markets (KCBM) has adopted Bloomberg’s DASH Enterprise, which enables sales traders to target a broader audience, access relevant market insights, and gain more value from their order flow. After adopting the DASH solution, KeyBanc Capital Markets has noted an increase in hit ratio and crossing rates. The solution is able to analyze and…

IHS Markit Partners with Itiviti in Buy-Side Trading and Connectivity Initiative

IHS Markit will be working in a strategic partnership with Itiviti to deliver a new service to administer FIX connectivity, to enhance the managed service version of thinkFolio, an order and portfolio management solution (OMS/PMS) from IHS Markit, and to respond to the rising demand for cloud-based investment management platforms. Combined, the Itiviti’s NYFIX connectivity…

ACTUS Foundation Releases Open-Source Standard for Financial Markets Contracts

The ACTUS Financial Research Foundation is releasing open-source Algorithmic Contract Types Unified Standards (ACTUS) version 1.0, which will be available on GitHub. ACTUS creates a standard for the mathematical representation of the payment obligations embodied in financial contracts, and seeks to provide the financial industry with a unified, machine-readable depiction of financial contracts for transaction-processing,…