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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…
The Case for Effective AML Controls as the FCA Highlights Financial Crime Concerns, Targets Transaction Reporting
Alongside the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Annual Report and Accounts 2018/19 released this week, the regulator also published its Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Annual Report. Part of a wider focus on financial crime (which includes the National Risk Assessment of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing of November 2017 and an FCA thematic review on capital…
Wolters Kluwer Launches OneSumX SaaS Regulatory Reporting Solution
Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting (FRR) business has launched a software-as-a-service (SaaS) Regulatory Reporting solution, marking the first time that the company’s OneSumX regulatory software has been made available on the cloud. The SaaS solution offers the same functionality as the company’s on-premise product, based on the upgraded OneSumX Regulatory Engine technology platform. The…
TRG Screen Adds Distribution Rights for XPansion’s Xmon Reference Data Usage Tracking
TRG Screen, a provider of subscription spend management software solutions, continues to build out its capabilities through an agreement with XPansion for global distribution rights to its XMon reference data usage management software. Xmon tracks raw data and reference data from data vendors such as Refinitiv and Bloomberg. The agreement follows TRG’s June 2019 acquisition…
Building a Powerhouse: How Ireland Became a Regtech Center of Excellence
By David Rochford, Head of Hedge Funds at MUFG Investor Services. Over the past decade, spurred by the financial crisis and ensuing regulatory regimes, Ireland has become a regtech powerhouse. The size of the regtech market is expected to grow to $12.3 billion by 2023, up from USD 4.3 billion in 2018, and Ireland is…
Xceptor Names ex-GBST Exec Tom Edwards as Chief Operating Officer
Xceptor, a global data ingestion, automation and transformation software provider, has appointed Tom Edwards as chief operating officer with responsibility to support the company’s growth strategy. Most recently, Edwards was head of delivery at wealth management and capital markets technology provider GBST. Edwards has over 30 years’ experience in project implementation and professional services delivery…
Data and Research: Two Sides of the Same Coin
By Evan Schnidman, President of Prattle, a Liquidnet company. For decades, the asset management community has treated research and data as two distinct goods – separate commodities to be controlled by separate institutions. Data was the domain of Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters (now Refinitiv), FactSet, S&P, and others, while research was the domain of large banks…
MiFID II RTS 28 Analysis Highlights Trends in Data Quality and Internalisation
A recent report from regulatory compliance platform provider Cappitech offers a window on how firms are complying with best execution requirements under Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) by slicing and dicing the MiFID II RTS 28 data that EU-based financial services firms were required to submit to EU regulators in April of…