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Data Processing Strides Pave The Way To More TCA Capability
Squarepoint Capital’s expansion of its use of Kx Systems technology for investment research capitalises on the provider’s strength at normalising data, tying together data sources and increasing the speed of its data processing — in a manner that sets the stage for more effective transaction cost analysis (TCA). Squarepoint uses Kx Systems’ Kdb+ time-series database…
Rival Systems Extends Reach Into Equities
Trading and risk management software provider Rival Systems’ partnership with the Lime Brokerage unit of Wedbush extends Rival Systems’ reach beyond its core constituency in futures and options, into equities trading in US markets and dark pools, according to Robert D’Arco, CEO, Rival Systems. Lime Brokerage and Rival Systems have launched an integrated service combining…
RegTek Delivers Tactical Software to Support Strategic Approaches to Regulation
RegTek Solutions, a subsidiary of Risk Focus formed early this year, has introduced EMIR-Ready, a regulatory readiness testing and validation service designed to help firms within the scope of European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) comply with changes to the regulation’s Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) that come into play on 1 November 2017. EMIR-Ready is a…
Trading Communications Become A ‘Mammoth’ Challenge
The volume of securities trading communications that requires recording and the amount of time that regulators mandate that information be retained have become a “mammoth” challenge for financial services firms, according to speakers in a webinar hosted by Intelligent Trading Technology on April 25. MiFID II goes far beyond the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s rules…
Santander Picks Opus Platform To Ensure Compliance
Santander UK has deployed the Hiperos 3PM third-party risk management platform from Opus, a London-based compliance solutions provider, to ensure the bank’s compliance with UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) guidelines, according to Ben Gould, managing director of EMEA & APAC at Opus. “Santander executives were interested in becoming fully compliant with FCA guidelines for managing…
Industry Doubts Urgency Of US CFTC’s Reg AT
The industry’s sense of urgency concerning Reg AT is dropping, because little action is expected to put its rules in effect in the US following the May 1 ending of the comment period on the regulation. Reg AT, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Regulation Automated Trading, contains risk and transparency provisions for automated trading….
Fixed-Income Trading Operations Catch Up
Fixed-income trading operations may be as much as 15 years behind equities trading operations, but they are catching up quickly, according to executives in the field who spoke at the FIX Trading Community’s Americas Trading Briefing in New York on April 26. “All the advancements in technology, the transfer of information and the execution of…
The Regulatory Stick and Beneficial Carrot of Data Governance
If the stick behind data governance is regulatory compliance, the carrot is business and operational benefit stretching to revenue creation, reduced expenditure, better customer satisfaction and improved data to solve business problems. The challenges and opportunities of data governance were discussed during this week’s A-Team Group webinar, A Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing a Data Governance…
‘Multi-Genre Analytics’ Emerges For Pre-Trade Assessments
Data analytics provider Teradata has developed a new type of algorithmic analytics applicable to securities trading information, called “multi-genre analytics.” Teradata developed the service in response to firms seeing predictive models as a cost they get stuck with when those models are needed for certain kinds of trades, says Sri Raghavan, global product marketing manager….
Misato Takes Disruptive Technology Approach to Enterprise Data Management
Misato is addressing financial institutions’ enterprise data management (EDM) challenges with a disruptive approach based on open source high-performance data bus technologies. The company’s Data Hub moves away from traditional data warehouse and extract, transform and load (ETL) solutions to focus on how data is consumed by applications. Working backwards, the hub can then reduce…