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Sponsored Blog: Ullink Considers How Low-Touch and High-Touch Trading are Playing Out in a Changing Economic Environment
The global trading landscape is changing, driven by regulation, automation, cost pressure and the search for alpha. In response, sell-side firms are rebalancing their high-touch order management and low-touch direct market access (DMA) trading, and considering new approaches to achieving accurate and efficient electronic trade execution at speed and scale. On the buy-side, firms continue…
How to Turn Data Lineage from a Regulatory Response into a Business Advantage
‘Death, taxes…and regulation’. Benjamin Franklin’s only two certainties in life have a new addition, so the joke goes, as financial firms face a never-ending and burdensome blitz of regulatory reporting – BCBS 239, MiFID II, Dodd-Frank, EMIR, GDPR, CCAR etc. etc. One partial solution to the new norm of constantly changing compliance is data lineage,…
TRG Extends Spend Management Platform with Acquisition of Screen
TRG’s acquisition of Screen Group has extended its provision of subscription spend management software solutions with market data software expertise that helps business manage market data costs, processes and workflows more efficiently. The acquisition closed this month and extends TRG’s scope of spend management capabilities across expense management by adding Screen’s INFOmatch to the company’s…
Exactpro Concludes Buyout from London Stock Exchange Group
Exactpro Systems has been bought out of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) by a company incorporated by the former’s founders. Deals of the acquisition were not disclosed and the LSEG is expected to remain a customer of Exactpro, which will provide an independent software quality assessment of LSEG’s core platforms based on a multi-year…
The Proactive Sourcing Imperative: A New Era of Financial Data Management
By: Martijn Groot, vice president, product management, Asset Control. Enterprise data management, or EDM, has long been associated with the discipline of sourcing, mastering and distributing data that typically includes valuation data, instrument master data and entity data. However, major changes in business and regulatory reporting requirements and enabling technologies mean that each of the…
Tim Lind Joins DTCC as Managing Director of Data Services
Tim Lind has returned to the front line of capital markets solutions as managing director of DTCC Data Services. At DTCC, he will be responsible for guiding the firm’s data businesses, including services that leverage data derived from DTCC’s global processing platforms, and ensuring ongoing alignment with risk management and regulatory requirements. Lind previously headed…
Danske Bank Goes Live with Datactics RegMetrics to Validate Customer Data
Danske Bank UK has implemented Datactics’ RegMetrics data quality solution to improve its single view of customers in Northern Ireland. The bank concluded a successful proof of concept last summer, went live with RegMetrics this month, and is looking at additional use cases for the software. The bank looked at three solutions to enhance its…
Brian Sentance Leaves Role of CEO at Xenomorph
Brian Sentance has stepped down from the role of CEO at Xenomorph Software after 23 years at the helm and following a successful first close of a two-stage funding round. He is replaced as CEO by Ron Zeghibe, a director of Xenomorph Holdings since May 2016. Matthew Skinner, managing director EMEA, joins Zeghibe as part…
Horizon Opens Gateways to Cryptocurrency Exchanges
Horizon Software has extended its trading platform to provide users with the option of trading Bitcoin as well as other cryptocurrencies such as Ether, Ripple and Litecoin. The company offers native gateways for connecting to the main cryptocurrency exchanges, including Kraken, Bitstamp, Bitfinex and GDAX, and will be adding access to other exchanges in the…
DSB Final Fees for ISINs for OTC Derivatives Higher than Expected
The Derivatives Services Bureau (DSB) set up to create ISINs required for OTC derivatives under Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) has finalised fees for user contracts running from October 2, 2017 to December 31, 2018. It notes, ‘we are mindful that the smaller than expected number of users contributing to the DSB’s…