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SIX Stands Ready to Help Firms with MiFID II and PRIIPs Document Exchange
SIX Financial Information is standing ready to help firms meet the data and document exchange requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs) – both of which regulations have early January 2018 compliance deadlines. The company released its Regulatory Document Hub (RegHub) a month or…
John Randles Leaves CEO Role at Bloomberg PolarLake to Join Start-up
John Randles has left the role of CEO at Bloomberg PolarLake and is on gardening leave until the end of September, after which he will become CEO of a technology start-up. Randles has been replaced by Warren Buckley, chief technology officer (CTO) at Bloomberg PolarLake and founder of PolarLake in 2002. The switch took place…
Charles River Teams with TRADEcho on MiFID II Trade Reporting Solution
Charles River Development has partnered TRADEcho to deliver an automated trade reporting solution for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). The partnership allows firms using the Charles River investment management solution (IMS) to use TRADEcho as an Approved Publication Arrangement (APA) to report trades to the public and to access TRADEcho’s Smart Report…
IHS Markit Offers Cloud Service for MiFID II RTS 28 Best Execution Compliance
By Laura Burgess IHS Markit has introduced a service designed to help firms within the scope of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) comply with RTS 28, an element of the regulation’s best execution requirements that mandates firms to publicly report their top five trading venues by asset class. RTS 28 takes effect…
IT Rationalisation: Mobilising Data Assets
By: Martijn Groot, Vice President of Product Strategy, Asset Control IT rationalisation has become a major focus for financial services firms over the past couple of years – from Deutsche Bank’s Strategy 2020, which includes modernising outdated and fragmented IT architecture, to HSBC’s Simplify the Bank plan, which includes an architecture-led strategy to halve the…
Peter Serenita Moves on from HSBC to Join Scotiabank as US Chief Data Officer
After an eight-year career as a senior data management executive at HSBC, Peter Serenita has moved on to join Toronto headquartered Scotiabank as US chief data officer. He will continue to be based in the New York City area where before joining HSBC he spent 17 years in technology and data management roles at JP…
Liquidnet Extends MiFID II Commitment with Targeted Invitations for Algos
By Laura Burgess Liquidnet has extended its Virtual High Touch portfolio with Targeted Invitations for Algos, a solution designed to help buy-side traders discover large-in-scale liquidity and meet some of the control requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). Targeted Invitations is available for European equities and will be rolled out on…
Symphony Adds Updated Dow Jones News App
By Laura Burgess Symphony has taken another step forward with the addition of a revamped Dow Jones News App to its collaboration and workflow platform. The app allows Symphony members to integrate premium news and analysis from Dow Jones into their workflow. Symphony was established in 2015 to provide a secure messaging service for financial…
Cloud Specialist Options Outlines 2017 Network Expansion Plans
Data centre operator and financial cloud hosting specialist Options has created a delightfully topological map of its 2017 expansion plans. The map – reproduced here – was posted on LinkedIn this week by COO Danny Moore, formerly of Wombat Financial Software, which emerged as the mainstay of the former NYSE Technologies much of which was…
With MiFID II Unbundling Looming, Commcise and TR Roll Out Research Capabilities
Amid media reports that sell-side firms are struggling to settle on commercial arrangements for subscriptions to their unbundled research services post-MiFID II, service providers are starting to roll out solutions aimed at helping buy-side firms receive, manage and pay for research under the new arrangements. MiFID II will require buy-side firms to justify how they…