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Corvil Tops up MiFID II Solutions with UTC Traceability
Corvil has expanded its Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) product portfolio with a Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) traceability solution that helps market participants monitor and report electronic trading activity. This is key to the EU’s MiFID II and the US Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) regulation, which both come into effect in 2018….
TickTrade Recruits Industry Veteran Kennedy to Run Global Sales
Foreign exchange (FX) trading platform provider, TickTrade Systems, has recruited fintech consultant and business development executive Will Kennedy as its global head of sales and marketing. Kennedy has over 25 years’ senior experience, most recently as a partner with the Toronto-based fintech consultancy Collaborative Financial Services. Before that, he held global business development, management and…
Challenging the Barriers to RegTech Adoption
Management buy-in, cultural change and legacy systems can be barriers to the adoption of regtech, although the barriers are beginning to lower as regtech solutions show potential to fulfil business use cases and provide cost benefits. In the run-up to A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit for Capital Markets on November 16, 2017 in New York, we…
Itiviti and IHS Markit Partner to Produce Integrated ETF Platform
An increase in trading of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has prompted capital markets technology provider Itiviti to partner data analytics specialist IHS Markit to deliver an integrated ETF platform. The solution, Tbricks by Itiviti for Delta One, combines Itiviti’s Tbricks trading system with SOLA, Markit’s ETF data service. Tbricks provides a scalable and customisable trading platform,…
Metamako and Velocimetrics Offer MiFID Compliant Timestamping
Metamako and Velocimetrics have developed a joint solution designed to enable capital markets firms to capture, analyse and precisely timestamp trading data in compliance with the requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). Under the partnership, Metamako’s low-latency network devices aggregate and directly route packets of nanosecond-precision timestamped data to Velocimetrics’ VMX…
QuantHouse Makes Trading Technologies Available to Virtu Financial SI Platform
QuantHouse has made its QuantFEED and QuantLINK trading infrastructure technologies available to Virtu Financial’s disclosed systematic internaliser (SI) platform, allowing the Virtu SI to provide firm quotes efficiently and transparently to a wide range of market participants. Virtu Financial is an electronic market maker providing liquidity to the global equity, exchange traded fund, energy, and…
Regulation Driving Technological Evolution of Financial Industry
By: David Pagliaro, EMEA head of State Street Global Exchange Our CEO once commented: “Over our long history, periods of significant regulatory change have provided the greatest opportunities.” This couldn’t be more true today. Since the global financial crisis, a plethora of regulation has been introduced and enforced. While the pace of new regulatory initiatives…
TP ICAP Names Eric Sinclair as CEO of Information Services
Interdealer broker TP ICAP has named Eric Sinclair as CEO of Information Services, the company’s data and analytics division. Sinclair will replace Frank Desmond who is leaving the company after 12 years of service. Sinclair will join TP ICAP on November 13, 2017, moving on from the Toronto Stock Exchange (TMX) where he spent 14…
Sponsored Blog: Curium Data Systems’ Adam Saunders Discusses the Release of CuriumEDM
This week, Curium Data Systems launches CuriumEDM (Enterprise Data Management). Data Management Review (DMR) interviews Adam Saunders, Director of Curium Data Systems about the new platform. DMR: Why did you decide to build out the enterprise data management capability on top of the existing data quality management and business intelligence modules? Adam Saunders: We always…
Brickendon Proposes a Five-Pronged Approach to GDPR
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a game changer, requiring firms to identify, manage and provide access to individuals’ personal data. Are firms up to speed on meeting the regulation’s May 2018 compliance deadline, or is there still some way to go? Ahead of a panel session on GDPR at A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit for…