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Do It Once, Do It Right
By Bill Hodash and Eugene Ing, DTCC Next year will mark a decade since the financial crisis. Since then, a wave of regulatory reforms has been implemented to increase the transparency and resiliency of the financial system, including the mandate to use legal entity identifiers (LEIs) across many jurisdictions. The goal is to ensure that…
RegTech API Fortress Focuses on Fast and Accurate Data Delivery
In a financial world driven by data, delivery is critical. Ahead of next week’s RegTech showcase at A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit for Capital Markets in New York, we talked to Patrick Poulin, CEO of regtech API Fortress about the company’s views on application programming interfaces (APIs) and its platform for API testing automation. Q: What…
Asset Control Integrates DataStax Enterprise to Power Market Data Platform
Asset Control has teamed up with DataStax to deliver a cloud based, NoSQL market and reference data platform. The platform is powered by DataStax Enterprise, integrated with Asset Control’s AC Plus enterprise data management (EDM) solution, and addresses issues around data volume, speed and access. Asset Control considered a number of technologies to support a…
ICE Partners ITRS to Offer Real-Time Monitoring of Global Data Feeds
ICE Data Services has agreed a global partnership with ITRS that enables it to offer real-time monitoring to users of its 450-plus market data feeds. Under the partnership, clients of ICE’s Consolidated Feed – which combines content from over 450 markets into a single platform – can use ITRS’s Geneos service to monitor their data…
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…
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…
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…