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ANNA Sets Up Benchmarks Task Force
The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA), which is responsible for assigning ISIN, FISN and CFI codes, has set up a Benchmarks Task Force to develop the process of obtaining ISINs for referential instruments, in particular, indices and reference rates. The purpose of the task force is to enable collaboration between ANNA and global benchmark…
A Dive into the Detail of the Systematic Internaliser Regime Under MiFID II
The requirements of the systematic internaliser (SI) regime under Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) became mandatory on September 1, 2018, meaning firms within the scope of the regulation must become SIs when they trade certain volumes in particular instruments, as set out by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). A month…
Refinitiv Sets Out Rationale Behind Closure of Wrexham Entity Data Processing Facility
Refinitiv’s proposal to close the Wrexham facility where it produces its Verified Entity Data as a Service – formerly the entity data service provided by Avox – looks like the beginning of a slippery slope as the company states that the proposal ‘has been made as we seek to focus our operations in fewer, larger…
Refinitiv Expands Access to Data Through Deal with Microsoft
Refinitiv, formerly the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters, is planning to sweat its data assets through an agreement with Microsoft that will integrate Refinitiv financial and markets data in applications and services including Microsoft Excel, MSN Money and Bing. This breaks with the former Thomson Reuters tradition of supplying data through a pipe…
CQG Provides Desktop Trading Platform for Nasdaq Fixed Income
CQG, a provider of high-performance trading, market data and technical analysis tools, has partnered Nasdaq Fixed Income (NFI) to deliver its web-based CQG Desktop platform as the official front-end for trading NFI US treasury benchmark products. Earlier this year, CQG partnered Nasdaq Futures Exchange (NFE) to provide a CQG Desktop as a front-end trading platform…
QuantHouse Adds Quantitative Brokers’ Algos to API Ecosystem
QuantHouse has added access to Quantitative Brokers’ (QB) best execution algorithms to its qh API Ecosystem. QB provides specialised algorithmic strategies designed to optimise execution and minimise market impact for outright, listed spread and inter-commodity trades across global futures and US cash treasury markets. Alastair Hawker, global head of sales at Quantitative Brokers, comments: “QB’s…
Data Management Practitioners Take Increasingly Dynamic Approach to Regulatory Compliance
Regulatory compliance continues to be a burden for data management practitioners working in capital markets, but approaches are changing as firms move towards managing reference data once for as many regulations as possible, adopt a utility model to ease the burden, or look to regtech solutions to support reporting. The ongoing challenges of compliance were…
Demand Derivatives Partners GMEX to Deliver Innovative Futures Exchange and Clearing House
Demand Derivatives, a creator of novel derivative instruments, and GMEX Group, a provider of exchange and post-trade technology solutions, are partnering to produce a US regulated futures exchange, RealDemand Board of Trade (RealBOT), and clearing house, RealDemand Clearing (RealClear). The partnership includes GMEX taking a minority equity stake in Demand Derivatives. RealBOT and RealClear are…
City Index/Forex.com Operator GAIN Capital Deploys Eventus for Surveillance
By Zoe Schiff, Reporter GAIN Capital Holdings, operator of the Forex.com and City Index online trader services, has deployed the cloud-based version of Eventus Systems’ Validus platform to manage its market surveillance programme for its futures market activities. The FCM’s Compliance and Risk departments and Trade Desk will be using the Validus system for the…
Société Générale Selects Duco Platform as Part of Plan to Reinvent Operations
Société Générale has reach agreement to deploy Duco’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) enterprise reconciliation and control platform as part of its focus on reinventing its operations functions to provide better insights, enhance customer service and improve data governance. Société Générale will use the Duco platform to automate key reconciliation processes across all business areas, dramatically improving efficiency…