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ESMA 2019 Supervision Work Programme Calls for Better Data Quality at Trade Repositories
Data, Brexit and cybersecurity top the agenda of ESMA’s 2019 Supervision Work Programme, with priorities for trade repositories including data quality and access by authorities, IT process and system reliability, business continuity planning, and registrations for Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) and Securitisation Regulation (SR). Priorities for credit rating agencies include portfolio risk and quality…
FCA Highlights Key Concerns over MAR Compliance
Effective compliance with the Market Abuse Regime (MAR) is “a state of mind” that requires a series of complex situational judgements – and time pressures could cause potential problems, warned Julia Hoggett, Director of Market Oversight at the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). This raises a number of key concerns around compliance which demand urgent…
Fending Off the FAANGS Using High-Performance Switch Technology
A story we published some years ago suggesting that Google was looking at making an acquisition in the real-time market data space sparked unprecedented interest from our readership and to this day remains one of our most viewed articles. Since then, the generic financial services space has seen the arrival of a raft of interlopers…
The Race Is On – Catch Up with Corvil’s Next-Generation Trade Execution Analytics at TradingTech Summit
Trade execution analytics are taking a leap forward with the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to machine-time data. Ultimate results could include the ability to understand, evidentially, the relationship between trading systems performance and trade outcomes. Corvil has been working for about two years to develop machine learning algos that can identify…
Is Crypto Trading for You? Find Out at Next Week’s TradingTech Summit
Financial institutions stand at the edge of the crypto boom. With little interest in unregulated cryptocurrencies and utility tokens targeted at retail markets, yet a desire to get involved in crypto trading but only where markets and assets are regulated and infrastructure is familiar, FIs are increasingly interested in the concept of security tokens. Ahead…
Shield FC Announces Cloud-Enablement of Compliance Platform
Specialist RegTech provider Shield Financial Compliance has launched the cloud-enablement of its compliance platform, which offers regulation compliance monitoring across a range of eComms channels covering the data lifecycle from capture and record keeping to analysis and investigation, utilising AI, NLP and Visualization capabilities. The new cloud deployment platform is designed to offer financial institutions…
FCA Prepares for No Deal Brexit with UK FIRDS Testing Starting Tomorrow
As the countdown to Brexit continues with no certain outcome, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is preparing for a no deal scenario with a UK Financial Instruments Reference Data System (FIRDS) that will replace the European Securities and Markets Authorities’(ESMA) FIRDS. Testing of the FCA model starts tomorrow, February 21, 2019, with live production data…
KYC Global Launches World’s First Risk-Based Customer Screening Solution
KYC identification specialist KYC Global Technologies has launched a new batch screening tool for customer identification, which it claims to be the first in the world to offer a 3D risk-based approach. In addition to customising how the searching of a customer’s name and meta-data should be carried out according to the customer’s risk profile,…
TradingTech Summit: Find Out How to Use Cloud to Maximise Compute Performance
Adoption of cloud computing continues to increase as trading firms pursue maximum compute performance – but it is not all plain sailing with problems including making the right decisions on what to put in the cloud, integrating legacy systems, and overcoming ongoing concerns about cloud security, hacks and breaches. Ahead of next week’s A-Team Group…
Asset Control 2019 Roadmap Advances ACX NoSQL Platform, Adds Data Lineage and Managed Services
Asset Control is gaining traction with the ACX cloud-based data delivery, storage and analytics platform it released late last year to manage increasing data volumes, reduce infrastructure costs, and provide business and technical users access to data exploration. On the sell-side, clients are using the platform for market risk applications including compliance with Fundamental Review…