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MiFID II and PRIIPs: The Double Act
By: Ronan Brennan, chief technology officer, Silverfinch As at 1st January 2018, the financial services industry will be served a double whammy of regulation – Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs). While there are key differences between these two regulations, the common characteristics are worth…
FactSet Details Ultimate Goal of Servicing the Complete Portfolio Lifecycle
FactSet is delivering on its aim to serve the portfolio lifecycle through acquisition, partnership, integration and a focus on providing clients with a choice of modular solutions. Previewing the year ahead, its plans include continued integration and enhancement of acquisitions Portware, Cymba and Vermilion, support for compliance with regulations including Markets in Financial Instruments Directive…
ICE Atrium Acquisition Streamlines New York-Toronto Low Latency Ties
The Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) acquisition of TMX Atrium, the wireless and extranet infrastructure services business owned by Canadian exchange operator TMX Group, could expand the low latency networks available to customers of ICE’s NYSE subsidiary. Following ICE’s acquisition of Interactive Data in December 2015, that company’s 7ticks low latency network was integrated with NYSE’s Secure…
Housden Brings Capital Markets Focus To Colt
Network and communications provider Colt Technology Services’ hire of Andrew Housden as vice president of capital markets may herald greater attention and effort on financial markets work by the company. Colt offers Colt PrizmNet, a financial sector extranet service, and MarketPrizm data feeds, hosting and connectivity solutions, as well as the Colt IQ Network which…
Symphony Foundation Looks To Leverage New FinTech Members
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Symphony Software Foundation, a non-profit financial services open source software organization, has added three new “silver tier” members in an effort to include more fintech companies and offerings in its group, according to Gabriele Columbro, executive director of the organization. The Symphony Foundation’s new members are ChartIQ, a data visualization provider; The…
ESMA States its Case on Distributed Ledger Technology
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has stepped into industry discussion on the pros and cons of distributed ledger – or blockchain – technology (DLT) and concluded that regulatory action is premature at this stage, but may not be in the longer term. The authority issued a report this week, The Distributed Ledger Technology…
Trade Surveillance is Challenging, But is There Also a Glint of Opportunity?
If Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) and Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) extend the breadth and depth of trade surveillance, could they also provide opportunities for firms that get it right? These issues and more were debated during a panel session at last week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit in London. Intelligent Trading…
FCA Discusses Progress on MiFID II Policy and Practicalities of Implementation
Details on final requirements and the implementation of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) will continue to be published over coming months, leading the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to conclude that serious efforts must be made towards achieving compliance on the 3 January 2018 deadline, although perfection is not expected. Stephen Hanks,…
As New Regulation Arrives, Europe Can Expect More Trading Venues
Experts on the European execution venue landscape are split on whether the future of that landscape is consolidation or fragmentation, as they expressed in a panel discussion on the topic at the Intelligent Trading Summit in London on 2nd February. Multi-lateral trading facility (MTF) activity has increased, according to Will Winzor-Saile, an execution architecture…
Steve Pulley Details Thomson Reuters Plans for Clarient and Avox
Following Thomson Reuters agreement to acquire Clarient and Avox from DTCC, we caught up with Steve Pulley, managing director of Risk Managed Services at Thomson Reuters, to find out more about the company’s plans for the acquisitions and how they will be integrated with Thomson Reuters risk management, compliance and reference data solutions. Pulley describes…