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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,…
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…