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EOSE Responds to Financial Firms’ Growing Interest in Monetising Data

EOSE, a specialist services firm set up a year ago to help financial institutions commercialise their market data, has clocked up its fifth client, the Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX), the largest derivatives exchange in the Middle East. EOSE will support the exchange in enhancing the market data segment of its business, while the…

Responses Split on ESMA Consultation Paper on a Consolidated Tape and Market Data

Responses to the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA’s) July consultation paper on the establishment of a consolidated tape (CT) for equity instruments are starting to surface, and the views they express diverge greatly. While some industry participants are very much in favour of a CT, others are strongly against the idea. The road to…

Q&A: RegTech Firms Should Be Regulated by the FCA, Says Jane Jee

Jane Jee, CEO at Kompli-Global, has some strong views on the current challenges facing the RegTech industry, and what the regulators themselves could do to fix them. Here, she speaks candidly to RegTech Insight about her views on building a robust RegTech industry in a post-4MLD/5MLD (EU Money Laundering Directive) world. What do you consider…

Hong Kong Exchange $37 Billion Bid for London Stock Exchange Scuppers Latter’s Merger Plan with Refinitiv

The Hong Kong Exchange’s $37 bid for the London Stock Exchange (LSE) came out of the blue this morning, but has since rattled cages and raised questions about the LSE’s proposed $27 billion merger with Refinitiv, whether a deal of this sort would be acceptable to regulators, and how LSE shareholders will react to the…

Sensiple Partners with TNS to Bring its MiFID II Compliance Solution to Frankfurt’s FR2

New Jersey-based banking technology specialist Sensiple Inc has partnered with communications giant Transaction Network Services (TNS) to bring its global analytical platform Setrega to the FR2 data centre in Frankfurt, further boosting the city’s reputation as a connectivity hub. Over the next five years Sensiple anticipates Europe to be one of its biggest growth areas…

Knowledge Graph Technology – The Holy Grail of Data Management?

Data siloes are proliferating, data lakes are overflowing, regulators are asking for access to more granular data, and data management teams are looking at how to deal with enormous data volumes in capital markets, understand both structured and unstructured data, make data accessible and contextual for business users, and turn it into a strategic asset….

GDPR One Year On

By Nick Murphy, Associate Director, GDPR Integrated Technology and Solution, 3 Lines of Defence Consulting. A lot was written about GDPR in the press and a lot was discussed prior to go-live last year, including at the A-Team Group RegTech Insight conferences. Now just into its second year, we ask: how successful is the regulation…

RavenPack Deploys AI to Detect Relationships Between Securities and Market-moving Events

RavenPack has built on its commitment to make Artificial Intelligence (AI) practical for quantitative and fundamental investors looking for alpha with the release of RavenPack Connections, a service that automates finding relationships between securities and market-moving events. The service provides real-time research to expose business relationships and interconnections among thousands of entities including companies, organisations,…

Data Management – Why is it all so Difficult and Costly?

The financial industry spends $28.5 billion on externally sourced market data and a further $2-3 billion cleaning it up so that is can be used internally. Why is this so difficult and costly, and what can the industry and market participants do about it? Peter Moss, CEO of the SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU), will…

Refinitiv Promotes Phil Wellard to Chief Information Officer

Refinitiv has promoted Phil Wellard from chief technology officer (CTO) to the broader role of chief information officer (CIO). In his new role, Wellard leads Refinitiv’s enterprise technology and cyber security organisation, which comprises a team of about 5,000 staff and strategic partners, and develops, operates and secures all Refinitiv products, infrastructure and technology. He…