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Sell-Side Coverage of European Companies Plummets Post-MiFID II, Finds Cass
A new paper from Cass Business School has found that sell-side analyst coverage of European companies has dropped “significantly” since the implementation of MiFID II in January 2018 – with a whopping 334 firms losing their analyst coverage completely. The paper, entitled ‘The Effects of MiFID II on Sell-Side Analysts, Buy-Side Analysts, and Firms’, examined…
German Government Asks EU to Relax MiFID II
According to an official statement, the German government has asked the EU to ease MiFID II rules following a February 2019 consultation with investment firms and market participants that found “a great deal of discontent” – including around breadth of the provisions, the cost of implementation, the tight timeframe and inadequate coordination with other regulations….
Global RegTech Industry Tops $5bn, But More Collaboration is Needed
The global RegTech industry generated an estimated $5 billion in revenue last year, as regulatory changes and technological advancements drove a surge of new startups in the past five years – according to a new Global RegTech Industry Benchmarking Report released this week by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF). Sponsored by EY Japan…
Credit Suisse Securities Migrates from Outsourced Post-trade Solution to Torstone’s Inferno
Credit Suisse Securities (Canada) has selected Torstone Technology’s Inferno post-trade processing platform to replace its existing third-party outsourced solution and service. The project to migrate to Inferno is underway and focused on the firm’s institutional equities business. A key driver for the change was to move away from an outsourced operation and increase efficiency across…
Fenergo Appoints Louise O’Connell to New Role of Chief Customer Officer
Fenergo, a provider of digital client lifecycle management solutions (CLM) for financial institutions, continues to build its team with the appointment of Louise O’Connell to the newly created role of chief customer officer. The role is aligned with Fenergo’s strategic goal to become even more client centric and was created to drive a coordinated, client-centric…
Nice Actimize Launches AI-driven Managed Analytics Service
Financial crime management specialist Nice Actimize has expanded ActimizeWatch, its secure cloud-based managed analytics service, to its Financial Markets Compliance solutions. Leveraging its cloud-based financial crime risk management Platform-as-a-Service, X-Sight, ActimizeWatch provides scalable analytics automation and a two-prong approach that includes Model Optimization and Development Services and Anomaly Detection. Both functions are offered as overlays…
genesis Adds Post-Trade Products, Plans Platform-as-a-Service Solution
genesis has brought its microservices framework, business component library and development acceleration tools to post-trade operations with a view to helping both sell-side and buy-side firms automate workflows and improve operational efficiency. The post-trade portfolio adds to other trading products built by genesis with anchor clients and then made available to the market, and will…
Finastra Prepares for SFTR with Regulatory Reporting-as-a-Service
Finastra, the third largest FinTech firm in the world following the merger of D+H and Misys back in 2017, this week launched a bespoke new SFTR reporting tool to help banks prepare for the fast-approaching April 2020 deadline. A cloud-based product built on the firm’s existing regulatory reporting solution, the product is designed to help…
DTCC and Accenture Deliver Governance Operating Model for Distributed Ledger Technology
DTCC and Accenture have introduced a distributed ledger technology (DLT) governance operating model to manage the risks and consequences of the technology, ensure the safety and soundness of the network for the benefit of all participants, and better enable DLT to reach its full potential. The model is also a critical component of DTCC’s Trade…
Fund Managers Fall Short on Reviewing Broker Performance
Fund managers are falling short on calculating the implicit costs of trading, and on a broader scale are unaware as to exactly how much money is being spent with brokers due to a failure to fully review all their relationships qualitatively and quantitatively. According to research from OpenGamma, a provider of derivatives analytics, despite the…