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No Need to Reinvent the Tech Wheel for Key Derivatives Rule, When (Or If) It Comes
By: Steven Strange, Buy-Side Product Manager, Fidessa In late 2015, the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission proposed a new rule designed to regulate the use of derivatives by registered investment companies. Rule 18f-4, as it is known, would affect the way derivatives and related assets are included into the portfolios of mutual funds, ETFs, and…
Making Market Data Instantaneous: Beast Apps Shakes Up Trader Workflow
With its Monoceros Market Data Platform (MDP), financial data, analytics, trading and risk technology company The Beast Apps expects to change the traditional client sales trader workflow from the way that has operated for decades. Intelligent Trading Technology spoke with Vinayek K. Singh, CEO of The Beast Apps, discussing what is novel about Monoceros (rhymes…
The Data Management Response to a Volatile Regulatory Landscape
The data management response to a regulatory landscape that is volatile and uncertain should be strategic, agile and future proof. It should also consider technology options including cloud, machine learning and blockchain. The need for a strategic approach to regulation at a time when US President Trump intends to repeal some financial legislation and the…
Time-stamping Needs To Be Better Than Regulators Require, Providers Say
Although the requirement for time-stamping set by Europe’s MiFID II regulation and for the US Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) is within 100 microseconds of the recognised standard UTC time, in practice firms and exchanges will need their reporting to be accurate down to nanoseconds or just a few microseconds, according to time-stamping services providers. “High-frequency…
Hundreds of Data Practitioners Join A-Team Data Management Summit
Last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit was a cracking event that discussed everything from creating value from data to navigating the changing regulatory landscape, improving data governance and quality, client onboarding, big data, data visualisation and more. Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II) was also on the agenda, with panel sessions reviewing the…
Hany Choueiri Argues the Case for Information Standards
The biggest challenge to the fourth industrial revolution that will put artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and big data centre stage is a lack of widely agreed information standards caused by obsession with technology rather than information. Hany Choueiri, head of data governance and strategy, EMEA, at State Street, discussed the need for capital markets to…
Ullink Expands MiFID II Solution Portfolio with Automated Trade Reporting
Ullink is developing a portfolio of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) products, the latest being an automated trade reporting solution designed to help firms comply with the post-trade transparency rules of the regulation. Coming soon are a post-trade data management product that will create a client order biographies necessary to record keeping…
Colt Adds More Destinations To PrizmNet
Last month’s hire of Andrew Housden as vice president of capital markets appears to be just the first step in expanding the Colt Capital Markets unit of network and communications provider Colt Technology Services. Colt Capital Markets is leveraging Colt Technology Services’ co-location capability for distributing market data in support of best execution of trades….
FactSet Acquires BISAM to Extend Portfolio Performance and Risk Capabilities
FactSet has extended its capabilities in portfolio performance, multi-asset risk and Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS) management and reporting through the acquisition of BISAM Technologies from Aquiline Capital Partners at a cost of $205.2 million. The acquisition adds BISAM’s B-One cross-asset performance measurement solution, which complements FactSet’s portfolio analytics and client reporting, as well as…
Firms Struggle To Grasp MiFID II Time-stamping Rules
MiFID II definitions for time-stamping and rules for record keeping to support tracking of trade orders — as defined in Article 25 of the directive’s regulatory technical standards (RTS 25) — even less than a year away from the deadline for compliance with the regulation, appear to be little understood, according to experts who spoke…