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EMIR and MiFID Transaction Reporting Challenges Continue to Trouble Firms and Regulators
Data quality is proving to be an enduring albatross around the necks of financial institutions that must comply with EU reporting rules under MiFID II and EMIR. A recent disclosure by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) shows that matching rates remain poor for derivatives transactions reported under the European Markets and Infrastructure Regulation…
Trading Technologies Adds Colocated Execution and Connectivity at ICE Data Centre in Basildon
Trading Technologies International (TT) has added colocated execution and client connectivity services at the ICE Data Services European Liquidity Centre in Basildon, UK, to its global trading infrastructure offering. The expansion to Basildon provides TT’s global user base with the lowest-latency direct market access to ICE’s European derivatives markets through the TT platform, and also…
Anova Partners NovaSparks to Deliver Sub Microsecond Market Data Processing Latency
Anova Financial Networks, an international carrier and market data provider, has partnered NovaSparks, a field programmable gate array (FPGA) market data company, to provide customers with an optimised and best-of-breed market data service connecting the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) to the New Jersey Equity Triangle. The service, MicroFeed, deploys NovaSparks’ NovaTick ticker plant that conflates…
Bloomberg Embeds Dow Jones News in Terminal Service
In a move once considered unthinkable, Bloomberg has begun distributing Dow Jones News and other Dow Jones publications for free as part of its Bloomberg Terminal offering. The Dow Jones news content will run alongside Bloomberg’s own news service, which comes bundled with the Bloomberg Terminal. Under the arrangement, which started this week, Bloomberg Terminal…
FCA Seeks Industry Input on How to Handle Regulatory Data
The UK’s financial watchdog has issued a call to regulated firms to provide feedback on how best to collect and process regulatory data, as part of its plan to replace Gabriel, its main regulatory data collection system. Collecting over 500,000 submissions annually across 120,000 users and 52,000 firms, Gabriel enables regulated market participants to submit…
Refinitiv Partners Appway to Provide Digital Onboarding for Wealth Management and Broker-dealer Clients
Refinitiv has reached a strategic partnership with Appway to integrate the latter’s client onboarding solutions on the Refinitiv BETA Platform, a suite of brokerage capabilities used by many US wealth management and brokerage firms. The integration reflects a growing desire among wealth managers and brokers to automate their services, and will enable financial intermediaries and…
Ex-DTCC and NYSE Exec Ron Jordan Joins Kingland
Kingland has named Ron Jordan as senior vice president, strategic accounts and partnerships. Jordan joins the Kingland executive team with more than 30 years of experience in the financial industry where he has worked with organisations including DTCC and NYSE. He has also served four years as a member of the Financial Research Advisory Committee…
Overview of Market Data Fees: What You Need to Know When Planning Your Market Data Infrastructure
By Robert Anderson, Director of Sales at Exegy. Market data is the third biggest expense for many of our customers—right behind the cost of rent and maintaining their staff. So, they’ve designated teams to understanding and optimizing their market data liabilities. However, smaller or newer firms struggle to understand how market data fees add up…
Culture and Internal Company Set-up Prove Problematic in SMCR Implementation
The Senior Managers Certification Regime (SMCR) is a hot and vexing topic, with internal company set-up and culture presenting a significant challenge for many financial services firms as they prepare for the December 9, 2019 deadline by when arrangements for senior managers and certification staff must be in place for all firms and from when…
Pragmatic Innovation is the Key to Success
By Alessandro Tonchia, co-founder and director of Finantix. Delivering innovative Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based technologies to improve business and operational performance is crucial to the future of the wealth management industry. Wealth management advisors are paid a certain amount of basis points on the proviso that they will give a clear view on what is best…