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Overall Concerns Remain High in Wolters Kluwer’s 2018 US Regulatory and Risk Management Survey
Wolters Kluwer’s Compliance Solutions division in December released the results of its annual Regulatory and Risk Management Indicator survey for the US in 2018. The survey showed a Main Indicator Score of 85, an 18% decrease from 2017. The high score demonstrates continued anxiety on certain risk and regulatory issues that demand close attention. However, the firm highlights…
MiFID II: One Year On and None the Wiser
By Christian Voigt, Senior Regulatory Advisor, Fidessa MiFID has achieved the rare feat of becoming a genericized trademark. In the same way that Xerox stands for copy machines in general, MiFID has turned into a synonym for all financial markets regulation. With the scorecard for its first birthday due, whether MiFID II really is ground-breaking,…
BBVA Compass Selects Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX for US Regulatory Reporting
BBVA Compass, the US-based subsidiary of Spanish multinational banking group BBVA, in January announced its plans to implement the OneSumX solution from Wolters Kluwer to provide regulatory reporting software for its US operations. BBVA Compass is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama and has a major presence throughout the ‘Sunbelt’ region of the US, with total assets…
Steeleye Partners with Euronext for MiFID II Reporting
Compliance technology and data analytics firm Steeleye has partnered with pan-European capital raising centre Euronext through its connectivity partner scheme. Steeleye customers can now access to Euronext’s advanced Approved Public Reporting (APA) and Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM) services, allowing for efficient and reliable MiFiD II reporting. The APA service is available for firms and Systematic…
Demand for RegTech Solutions to Increase as Regulatory Burden Looms Ever Larger
An overwhelming majority (85%) of financial services professionals predict that demand for RegTech solutions will continue to grow until at least 2020, as the wave of new regulation a decade after the financial crisis shows no sign of abating. Over 500 respondents in the asset management, corporate, capital markets and private wealth sectors took part…
Luminex Enhances the User Interface and Workflow of its Buy-Side Trading Venue
Luminex Trading & Analytics, a buy side-owned trading venue supporting low-cost block executions, has rolled out Luminex 2.0, which includes an enhanced user interface and workflow. Built on OpenFin technology, the platform works seamlessly with other trading and financial services applications. The flexible user interface in Luminex 2.0 allows traders to customise their workspace with…
The Story Behind the Launch of A-Team Insight
As many of you may know, here at A-Team Group we have been tracking the financial technology industry in capital markets for close to 20 years – and many of us started in the sector well before that. We have now poured these decades-worth of experience, information, industry context and analysis into the launch of…
big xyt Offers Visual Analysis of 2018 European Equity Trading Landscape
big xyt, a provider of high-volume data and analytics capabilities to trading and investment firms, has introduced www.250days.com, a collection of dashboards displaying annotated visual analysis of the fragmented European equity trading landscape leading up to and during 2018. Based on big xyt’s Liquidity Cockpit dashboards and developed in response to client requests, www.250days.com allows…
Arachnys Partners Oracle to Integrate Financial Crime and Compliance Solutions
Customer risk intelligence specialist Arachnys has joined the PartnerNetwork of technology giant Oracle as a platinum level member. The partnership starts with Arachnys Navigator, part of the Arachnys cloud-native customer risk intelligence (CRI) suite, as the first solution planned for integration to enhance Oracle’s financial services financial crime and compliance management (FCCM) platform. The partnership…
FIX Trading Community Sets Up Brexit Working Group, Calls for Members
The FIX Trading Community is calling for members to join a Brexit Working Group designed to help FIX members and other industry participants prepare for the challenges presented by the UK leaving the European Union. The goals of the group are to identify and review requirements for potential changes to technical or business practices that…