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How to Solve the Problem of Sanctions and Related Securities
In an increasingly hostile world, monitoring sanctions lists, politically exposed persons and other watch lists has become complex, but the buck doesn’t stop here with financial institutions needing to monitor and manage not only sanctions lists, but also securities related to sanctioned domiciles and companies. This is not as easy as it may first appear….
PRIIPs Compliance Deadline Uncertain as Regulatory Technical Standards Rejected
The European Union’s upcoming regulation on Packaged Retail Investment and Insurance Products (PRIIPs), which requires banks and insurers to provide a Key Information Document (KID) to retail investors, has hit a bump in the road following the rejection of Level 2 Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) for the regulation by the Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)…
Dates for your Diary – Data Management Review Events
As the summer season comes to an end and holiday makers return to their desks, here at Data Management Review we are working on an exciting programme of activities that we would like to invite you to take part in. We start the autumn season with a number of topical webinars covering issues including client…
New Focus on Order Routing
By Dan Barnes Order routing technology is about to become considerably more important as regulators demand greater transparency over sell-side order routing and buy-side best execution obligations. “We’ve really seen this in terms of higher depth of reporting, with clients saying ‘Give me all the data you can give me and stream it in real…
True Innovation?
By Chirstian Voigt, a Senior Regulatory Adviser at Fidessa The recent slew of exchange announcements introducing new dark trading facilities in response to MiFID II would appear to suggest that the regulation has triggered a whole raft of innovations. But is that what’s really happening here? Euronext tells us it is planning to introduce a…
DTCC Names James Hollands as Global Head of Sales
DTCC has named James Hollands as managing director, global head of sales and partners. Hollands took up his role at DTCC last month and will lead the company’s sales drive from London. Hollands joined DTCC from post-trade infrastructure provider TriOptima, where he was head of sales for triResolve. Since starting his career at RBS, where…
Mark Hepsworth Sets Sail as CEO of Asset Control
The arrival of Mark Hepsworth at Asset Control signals a shift away from the company’s traditional focus on large enterprise data management solutions and a move towards the provision of more focused use case products such as the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) solution introduced last month and the company’s independent price verification service….
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Post-Holiday Blues?
Feeling like I need a holiday after our ‘energetic’ family getaway to Greece, we are taking stock of the exciting programme of activities we’ve lined up for the ‘fall’ season here at Intelligent Trading Technology. Simply put, there is a lot going on. So I thought it would be useful to go over some of…
Citisoft Details Impact of Blockchain on Buy-Side Data Management
Blockchain, or distributed ledger, technology is expected to track a similar adoption curve as the internet, with a period of inspiration and experimentation being followed by a phase of ‘crossing the chasm’, and a final phase of growth and mass adoption leading to full maturity of the technology by 2035. A recent report by Citisoft…
Velocimetrics Improves Algo Testing with MdPlay
By Zoe Schiff Velocimetrics continues to build out its data tracking and performance analysis technologies with the addition of mdPlay, a service that allows subscribers to accurately re-experience the market data sent or received during any selected trading period in their pre-production environment. Firms using market data provided by mdPlay can improve the precision of…