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Do Traders Dream Of Hologram Interfaces? FlexTrade Thinks So.
Capitalising on Microsoft’s augmented reality HoloLens product, which was first made available to technology developers in March 2016, FlexTrade Systems, a trade execution and order management systems provider, has developed augmented reality trading capability for HoloLens, according to Andy Mahoney, business development director at FlexTrade UK. HoloLens is an altered version of a virtual reality…
GLEIF Eases LEI Acquisition as Identifier Passes the Half Million Mark
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) has passed the half million mark, the Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF) is encouraging the creation of registration agents that will help firms get LEIs, and plans are on the board for mapping services that will link SWIFT BICS and Association of National Numbering Agency (ANNA) ISINs to the identifier. Will…
Technology Catches Up To Regulators’ Monitoring Demands
Conducting a simple real-time statistical analysis of financial market activity does not necessarily require “sophisticated AI or machine learning,” says Guy Warren, CEO of ITRS, an application performance management and big data analytics provider. The purpose of conducting such an analysis is to determine when a circuit breaker kicks in to catch and stop algorithmic…
Trax Sees UK Approval For MiFID II Reporting As First Step In Europe
The UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) approval of the approved reporting mechanism (ARM) provided by market data, trade matching and regulatory reporting services company Trax is the first domino in a line that its makers hope will run through European countries by the time MiFID II takes effect in January. As an ARM, Trax has…
IBM CDO Presents the Case for a Cognitive Enterprise
Creating a cognitive enterprise is within reach and could ease the regulatory burden, increase the efficiency of data management, and improve decision making. Discussing the use and potential of cognitive technologies at A-Team Group’s recent Data Management Summit in New York, Inderpal Bhandari, global chief data officer at IBM, set out IBM’s view of cognition…
MiFID II Effects On Order Handling and Reporting Requirements Emerge
The specifics of MiFID II compliance have become clearer with new guidance from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), and increased understanding of best execution and transparency parts of the regulation among industry professionals. In ESMA’s recent question and answer statement on MiFID II, the authority specified what data must be published and reported…
Blockchain Venture Attracts Firms With Customization
The CME Group and blockchain technology provider AlphaPoint, in collaboration with the UK’s Royal Mint, have launched a digital gold trading product that aims to bring more financial institutions into gold trading and allow its users some open source parts on which they can build customized functions. Royal Mint Gold (RMG), the digital gold trading…
The Latest PRIIPs RTS
By Ronan Brennan, chief technology officer, Silverfinch The European Commission has published what is hopefully the final iteration of the Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs) Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS), and with the European Parliament announcing that it has no objection to the new RTS, the industry has finally arrived at a point that…
Numerix Gets Real-Time Enhancements
Risk technology company Numerix’s acquisition last month of TFG Financial Systems is a first step in adding a “deeper bench of analytics” for pricing and risk to its Oneview Enterprise Platform, according to Steven O’Hanlon, CEO and president of the company. TFG Financial Systems offers real-time risk, profit-and-loss and position management services, including dependency graph…
Webinar Discusses Data Management Processes in Run up To MiFID II Compliance
The 3 January, 2018 compliance deadline for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) is approaching fast, so how ready are financial institutions to meet the directive’s requirements and what outstanding data management challenges do they face? A recent A-Team Group webinar answered these questions and more, highlighting the need to get cracking on…