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Estates and Infrastructure Exchange Selects Aquis Technologies Solutions
The Estates and Infrastructure Exchange (EIE) has selected Aquis Technologies, a division of Aquis Exchange, to supply solutions and services including a trading front end, the Aquis matching engine (AME), the Aquis market surveillance (AMS) solution, including a first-line surveillance service, as well as market operations and post-trade tools and services. The matching engine and…
Trading Technologies Begins Build of Trading Ecosystem
Trading Technologies (TT) has been developing expertise for 25 years and says the next 25 will be about adding value for customers based on its intent to build an ecosystem encompassing trading applications, infrastructure and data. TT won’t pull back from its traditional business in trading screens, but it is pushing on to extend its…
KAS BANK Selects AIM Software to Support Digital Transformation
KAS BANK has licensed three modules of AIM Software’s GAIN business application suite as part of a digital transformation designed to the make the bank more agile and competitive. The GAIN solutions will be used to underpin data management and support the bank’s strategic focus on becoming more data driven and improving operations by streamlining…
Pontus Vision Offers Open Source GDPR Solution with GCHQ Style Security
If you are still looking for a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance solution, London based regtech Pontus Vision may be able to help you with its open source, secure software that allows firms to search for any given customer and quickly access all of the data the business holds about them in a single…
SmartStream RDU Collaborates with APAs to Deliver a Centralised SI Registry
The SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU) is collaborating with a group of Approved Publication Arrangements (APAs) to fill a reporting gap in the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) framework with a centralised Systematic Internaliser (SI) Registry that allows SIs to register financial instruments for which they are providing SI services in the…
MiFID II: Unfinished Business
Generic data issues and specific structural issues caused by the implementation of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) continue to challenge traders and brokers, despite the regulation’s relatively smooth debut on January 3, 2018 – the so-called ‘Day of the MiFIDs’. The pain points highlighted by an expert panel (see box) discussing the…
Mizuho International’s Gary Goldberg Outlines the Future of the CDO
Gary Goldberg, CDO at Mizuho International, headlined A-Team Group’s recent Data Management Summit in London with a keynote titled ‘Using data to bring the business together’. He talked about the evolution of the CDO role, the power of data and the opportunity for the data office to become a strategic business partner. Setting the scene…
Colt and Celoxica Finalise FPGA-Based Service that Normalises European Data Feeds
Colt Technology Services and Celoxica are making final preparations to bring an FPGA based service that normalises European data feeds with consistent single-digit microsecond latency to market next month. The first content provider Colt is connected to, and will provide normalised data from, is Deutsche Börse CEF Ultra+ Eurex, a source of Eurex derivatives instruments….
Identifying and Verifying Ultimate Beneficial Owners: Getting the Full Picture, Fast
By Paul Charmatz, Managing Director, encompass The increasing burden of identifying and verifying ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs) of entities is a challenge faced by all regulated firms. However, Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations that enforce corporate transparency by identifying UBOs can reduce the risk of corruption and the cost of compliance. Firms undertaking appropriate due…
ITRS Adds Integrations to Monitor Big Data Platforms, Container Technologies to Follow
ITRS has added a set of six integrations to its Geneos solution that allow users to monitor open source, big data technologies – including Kafka, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra and Elasticsearch – and troubleshoot, analyse and optimise the performance of applications running on each of these big data stacks. The company is also working on…