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IHS Markit and Deloitte Partner, Addressing MiFID II Compliance and Re-papering
Building on its launch of the Outreach360 regulatory compliance communication platform last month, information and analytics solutions provider IHS Markit has partnered with Deloitte to make the consultancy’s regulatory advisory expertise available as a managed service on the platform, according to officials of the companies. The partnership of IHS Markit and Deloitte is offering MiFID…
Thomson Reuters BlockOne IQ Adds Market Data to Blockchain Transactions
Thomson Reuters is building out its blockchain capability with BlockOne IQ, which allows blockchain applications to include the company’s current and historic market data in their processes, and provides cryptographic proof that Thomson Reuters is the source of the data. BlockOne IQ follows the company’s 2016 release of BlockOne ID, which allows developers to map…
Using High-Frequency and Automated Trading Wisely
The difficulties of making high-frequency trading profitable – or its absolute importance — may be exaggerated, and automating trading may be more useful than industry observers would think, according to trading operations executives who spoke in a panel discussion on “Trading in the New Normal Environment,” at the Intelligent Trading Summit held in New York…
Listen to the Experts on MiFID II Research Unbundling
With just six months to go before the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) compliance deadline, many financial firms are struggling to pin down the research unbundling requirements of the regulation. Key challenges to implementation include measuring the value of research, establishing a pricing system and building a compliant solution. MiFID II research…
KYC/AML Innovation Waits On MiFID II
Efforts to conduct know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) operations more efficiently are more likely to begin after the financial services industry is better prepared for regulatory deadlines coming at the beginning of 2018, like MiFID II, said William Hartnett, managing director for market infrastructure investments at Citi, who spoke on a panel about the…
How to Get Data Lineage Right for Regulatory Compliance and Change
Data lineage for regulatory compliance continues to be a challenge, with financial institutions citing problems including managing lineage across multiple systems and new and changing regulatory requirements during a recent A-Team Group webinar on tracking data lineage for regulatory compliance and change. If these are the challenges, a poll of the webinar audience showed that…
OTCX-SimCorp Partnership Takes On MiFID II Compliance
OTC derivatives multi-dealer platform OTCX’s recently announced partnership with investment management solutions provider SimCorp makes the OTCX Request For Quote (RFQ) platform more widely available – and capitalises on the platform’s value for MiFID II compliance, according to Nicolas Koechlin, CEO of OTCX. “We started the OTCX concept a little before MiFID II kicked in,”…
Funds-Axis Implements Datactics RegMetrics Data Quality Solution
Datactics has made its first break into the funds management market through a partnership with RegTech specialist Funds-Axis, which will use the company’s data quality metrics to improve automation and operating efficiency. The solution will also provide Funds-Axis clients with greater transparency of enterprise data quality. Funds-Axis, a provider of regulatory technology to the investment…
IFRS 9 Data Management: The Convergence of Finance and Risk
By Brian Sentance, CEO, Xenomorph The siloed delivery of data and technology has evolved quite naturally in most financial institutions. Whether the split lies across business units, geographic boundaries, asset classes or job functions – the complexity of most large organisations has led different teams to pursue their own unique requirements and procurement decisions regarding…
Trade Practice Surveillance: ‘I’ll Know It When I See It’
By: Victor Naroditskiy, Head of Regulatory Solutions Engineering, EMEA, OneMarketData Much of the Dodd-Frank Act, Market Abuse Regulation, MiFID II and trade surveillance regulations can be summarized as “Thou shalt not manipulate” or rather “Thou shalt not try to manipulate.” The Dodd-Frank Act, for example, defines spoofing in the following terms: It shall be unlawful…