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Fenergo Expands to Meet Demand for Client Lifecyle Management Solution
Fenergo is building out its infrastructure with the appointment of two sales leads, 100 new recruits, office extensions and a customer success function dedicated to nurturing customer experience. The expansion is a response to a growth spurt at the regtech provider that is expected to generate revenue of over €50 million and breakeven in the…
US Reduces Settlement Timeframe from T+3 to T+2 Effective Immediately
The US T+2 Industry Steering Committee has achieved its objective of reducing settlement time to trade data plus two days (T+2) for securities including US equity, corporate and municipal bonds, and unit investment trust trades. The settlement cycle was last changed in 1995 from T+5 to T+3 and brings the US in line with the…
ICE Extends SFTI Wireless Network with Chicago to Tokyo Link
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is working with the Go West trading consortium to add an ultra-low latency link between Chicago and Tokyo to its Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI) wireless networks. SFTI was acquired by ICE in the break-up of NYSE Technologies a couple of years ago and includes ultra-low latency network connectivity solutions between the…
Torstone Technology Names Former MillenniumIT CEO as COO
Mack Gill, former CEO at MillenniumIT, has surfaced at Torstone Technology with the roles of COO and member of the board of directors, and responsibility to drive the company’s post-trade securities and derivatives processing solutions into new regions and market segments. He will also take an operational role in improving and scaling client service and…
In an Age of Sanctions, Keeping Pace Requires Innovation
By: Phillip Lynch, Head of Markets, Products & Strategy, SIX Financial Information Keeping up with the latest popular television shows was once a relatively simple proposition. With only a handful of major channels vying for your attention, all you had to do was set aside an hour or two each week and you’d have everything…
Eze Software Sets Out its Approach to MiFID II
Following the appointment of David Quinlan, an 18-year veteran of Eze Software, as the company’s executive managing director of EMEA with responsibility for business development and a focus on the needs of growing numbers of EMEA clients within the scope of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), we caught up with Quinlan and…
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…