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Why Packet Capture Matters For MiFID II Compliance
Firms are catching on to the importance of packet capture for the real-time trade surveillance that MiFID II will require when it takes effect at the start of 2018, according to trading technology and regulation experts who spoke in a webinar hosted by Intelligent Trading Technology on June 27. The definition of network packet capture…
Lighter Regulatory Reform is an Opportunity for Data Management Best Practice
By Martijn Groot, Vice President of Product Strategy, Asset Control The implications of a potential roll back on regulation, from Dodd-Frank to a new level of commitment to European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) and Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) as a result of Brexit negotiations, are hard to predict. While regulatory compliance,…
Data Management Approaches for the Buy-Side
Buy-side firms challenged by the need to manage more data, increase data quality, address margin pressures and identify new business opportunities are investing in transformational data management programmes that will catapult their capabilities ahead of those of comparable sell-side firms. Buy-side approaches to data management and their progress were discussed during a recent A-Team Group…
GoldenSource Integrates eXtremeDB to Speed Up Regulatory Response
GoldenSource has integrated its Risk Master platform with McObject’s eXtremeDB to deliver an enterprise data management (EDM) solution capable of responding to regulations demanding fast access to vast data volumes. Initial use cases of the integration include compliance with Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation and the best execution elements of Markets in…
Enterprise Data Management and Data Governance – Two sides of the same coin?
By Andrew Sexton, sales and marketing director, Curium Data Systems There is no doubt that data governance is rising up the agenda at many financial institutions, driven both by an increasing regulatory focus on good data as well as a firm’s internal focus on improving data quality and applying ‘fit for purpose’ data to key…
MiFID II Drives Widespread Market Data Operations Changes
As the largest European exchanges, along with many other European trading venues, change or update systems to be compliant with MiFID II provisions concerning best execution, firms are finding they must also update the way they interact with these exchanges and venues. Market data and automated trading order execution systems provider Redline Trading Solutions has…
Singapore Firm Adds Ullink Post-Trade System
Singapore-based asset management company Village Capital, which invests mainly in Japanese equities, recently began using Xtrain, a Ullink system which addresses post-trade functions including trade reconciliation, reporting and performance data management. Village Capital chose Xtrain, after already using Ullink’s Xilix execution management system, to stop performing post-trade functions completely manually, as it had been. Taking…
Data-as-a-Service Emerges As Valuable Concept
The data management method known as Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) can be very effective for addressing data operations challenges that have emerged due to regulation and for other reasons, according to data and analytics executives who spoke in a webinar hosted by Intelligent Trading Technology on June 15.
IHS Markit Builds out MiFID II Product Portfolio
IHS Markit’s collaboration with Deloitte on MiFID II counterparty entity classification and terms of business repapering builds out the company’s MiFID II product portfolio, which already includes transaction reporting based on the IHS Markit enterprise data management (EDM) solution. The Deloitte collaboration follows IHS Markit’s introduction of the Outreach360 regulatory compliance communication platform last month…
Quantave Debuts Blockchain Liquidity Infrastructure
Trade life-cycle infrastructure provider Quantave has begun beta testing of a digital assets infrastructure that aims to improve access to liquidity available in digital currencies such as Bitcoin and Ether, according to Paul Gordon, CEO of the company. The volume of digital assets trading can be as much as $2 billion daily worldwide. “Accessing available…