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FactSet Details Plans to Further Extend its Open:FactSet Marketplace through 2019
FactSet is cracking on with its Open:FactSet Marketplace, most recently adding investment signal data from IHS Markit and solutions to complement the datasets on the platform. Through 2019, the company plans to add ‘any high-quality dataset relevant to the financial community’, including core data from large data vendors, as well as more alternative datasets from…
MiFID II: A Long Way from Happy Ever After…
It is over a year since MiFID II was finally implemented on January 3, 2018 and in the mad dash to meet the regulatory deadline, many firms adopted immediate measures and mandatory shortcuts to meet the new research rules, that are now emerging as less than sustainable over the long-term. Fast forward 13 months, and…
Alpha FMC and Kaizen Partner on Transaction Reporting Compliance
Specialist regulatory reporting solutions provider Kaizen has teamed up with wealth management consultancy Alpha FMC to offer a new transaction reporting compliance assurance service. The collaboration will comprise a “health check” for specialist wealth managers and smaller asset managers including an assessment of current governance and control frameworks, a check on the accuracy of reported…
RegTech Blockchain Start-up Raises $1.7m in Seed Funding
TRM Labs, a San Francisco-based RegTech start-up focusing on blockchain solutions, has raised $1.7 million in seed funding from a consortium of investors led by specialist venture capital firm Blockchain Capital and including Tapas Capital, Green D Ventures, The MBA Fund and other angel investors. TRM will use the funds to scale its engineering talent…
Refinitiv Taps Influx DB for Cloud-Based Trading Analytics
Refinitiv has selected Influx DB to help build additional cloud-based analytics services. The initiative is part of a wider move to shift delivery of Refinitiv services, including real-time and other data, to a service-oriented cloud-based platform requiring minimal client-side equipment or maintenance. The InfluxDB analytics will add to the company’s Velocity Analytics and QA Direct…
SEC CAT Hits Another Hurdle
The US Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) has hit another hurdle with the CAT National Market System (NMS) confirming that it is ‘transitioning the CAT project to a new plan processer’. This suggests Thesys Technologies, which was rather surprisingly selected as the plan processor by the self-regulatory organisations (SROs) that operate the CAT NMS in May…
Capgemini Marches on with IDMS Reference Data Utility Despite Talk of Pullback
Whatever happened to the Capgemini (nee iGate) Integrated Data Management Services (IDMS) utility? With little or no market visibility in the past 12-18 months, many in the industry surmised that new owners Capgemini had developed cold feet in the face of slow expansion. When the utility’s sales group in London and New York was folded…
RegTech Insight – Keeping Your Finger on the Regulatory Pulse
Welcome to Regtech Insight (RTI), a brand-new platform from A-Team Group bringing you the very latest in news, insights and exclusive analysis from the complex and fast-changing world of regulatory technology. Forming the third pillar of our comprehensive information service, RTI stands alongside Data Management Insight (DMI) and Trading Technology Insight (TTI) to offer a…
Growing Sense of Realism Around RegTech Implementation, Warns Thomson Reuters
There is an emerging sense of pragmatism around the adoption of new technology, according to the latest global survey from Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence, released today. While the potential advantages of FinTech and RegTech are widely acknowledged, there is a growing sense of realism around the implementation challenges and practical reality of achieving the promised…
FRTB Poses Potential Threat to Smaller Regional Banks
In January the Basel Committee released final revisions to the upcoming Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB), including a number of modifications to make the regulation more palatable to industry players and a confirmed deadline of January 2022 for initial implementation. Despite its modest revisions, the transformative framework will enforce one of the biggest…