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QuantHouse Onboards Fenics USTreasuries Providing Expanded Access to Market Data

QuantHouse is offering direct access to the Fenics USTreasuries (Fenics UST) platform through the QuantHouse FeedOS API and QuantLINK global network. This gives QuantHouse buy-side clients fast, streamlined access to normalised real-time and historical data to trade the US cash treasuries market. Fenics UST provides buy-side participants with access to cash treasuries via two electronic marketplaces:…

How to Digitalise Client Onboarding and Improve Customer Experience

Financial institutions are improving the client onboarding and the customer experience, but could do better by developing enterprise rather than point solutions, gaining a 360 view of each customer, and working towards digitalising the client lifecycle. During a recent webinar hosted by A-Team’s Data Management Insight and sponsored by Fenergo, a poll question revealed that…

Refinitiv’s John Mason Talks to DMI About Transitioning to the Cloud

Refinitiv, formerly Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk business, is off the runway and heading for the cloud with a view to transitioning its data and clients to the cloud, bringing processes to data rather than data to processes, and helping clients gain value from data and tackle the thorny issue of total cost of ownership…

155 Reasons to Worry About SFTR Reporting

Adding to our conversation on SFTR and with thanks to a Data Management Insight reader and SFTR expert, here is more information on the four phases of SFTR go live, and matching data fields required across the four phases: These are the four phases in terms of institutions that are due to go live: Phase…

FCA Sets Out No-Deal Action Plan for Post-Brexit Transaction Reporting

The Brexit deal may still be up in the air but even as the Government scrambles to resolve a seemingly insoluble impasse, regulators are paddling hard under water to attempt a (relatively) seamless transition should the UK depart on March 29 with no deal. The UK Treasury has drafted legislation giving the FCA temporary power…

Axon Releases Automated Portal for Market Data Usage Declarations

Axon Financial Systems, a Belfast-based provider of technology to simplify market data reporting and administration, has released Axon Declaration Portal (ADP), a solution designed to streamline the collection of market data usage declarations. ADP joins a suite of Axon solutions dedicated to market data usage and fills a gap in the market by automating the…

Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance and EY Japan Join Forces to Launch Global RegTech Benchmarking Survey

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), an international interdisciplinary academic research institute dedicated to the study of alternative finance, has launched its first survey of RegTech and SupTech (supervisory technology) firms in partnership with EY Japan and with support from industry bodies including The International RegTech Association. Fieldwork is now underway for the survey,…

No Enforcement Doesn’t Mean No Problem, Warns FCA on MiFID II Compliance

The question of regulatory enforcement is a tough one, and the FCA has come in for its fair share of criticism over how it has handled the compliance requirements for the radical new fee disclosure requirements brought in by MiFID II in January last year. The regulator has been adamant in its stance that MiFID…

Selerity Breaks News with Hammerstone Markets

Selerity, a financial technology company using proprietary AI to deliver content and data solutions, has partnered Hammerstone Markets to meet client demand for a solution that illustrates the reasoning behind market movements. Ryan Terpstra, CEO and founder of Selerity, says the company selected Hammerstone as it is often the fastest to report on key events…

Transaction Network Services Firms Up Secure Cloud Connect with Azure

Transaction Network Services (TNS), a global provider of data communications and interoperability solutions, is enhancing its Secure Cloud Connect solution with connectivity to Microsoft Azure. Firms using Azure can easily establish connectivity between all the markets, global exchanges, and other organisations that make up TNS’s 2,100 endpoints. Jeff Mezger, director of product management at TNS,…