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Markit Adds Real-Time Bond Pricing to Hourly and End-of-Day Services
Markit has responded to market demand for real-time bond pricing with a streaming service covering investment grade and high yield corporate, sovereign and agency bonds. The service is designed to support pre-trade transparency, intraday net asset value calculations, and the need for exchange traded fund managers to understand how constituents of funds are priced throughout…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: The British Love a Good Farce
A week after the referendum sent us into Brexit, there remain more questions than answers on what will become of the UK and – more pertinently for us – the City of London’s trading community. No-one truly knows how this will play out. We may collectively remain in the dark for some time. Many Remainers…
ICE Integrates Acquired Data Assets to Deliver ICE Data Services
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has combined its proprietary exchange data with data and services acquired over the past few years to deliver ICE Data Services. The move results from the ongoing integration of Interactive Data, which was acquired in December 2015, and brings ICE into closer competition with Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg. ICE Data Services pulls…
A-Team Webinar Discusses Data Management Challenges of MiFID II
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) continues to pose major challenges as financial institutions build compliance programmes designed to manage huge volumes of data required by the regulation while waiting for final technical and implementation standards from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). The implications of MiFID II for data management –…
Financial Institutions Regroup to Consider Outcomes of Brexit
After the shock of last week’s ‘leave’ vote in the European Union referendum and a weekend to reflect on the outcome, financial institutions across the UK are considering big picture scenarios that could result from Brexit and putting together governance frameworks designed to help them manage events as they unfold. While there is no certainty…
A-Team Webinar Discusses Data Management Challenges of Client Onboarding and KYC
Increasing cost, complexity and regulatory change continue to challenge firms implementing client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) systems, but with a focus on data management and data quality many are developing successful solutions that meet compliance requirements and support business strategy. Webinar Recording: Listen to the recent Client onboarding and KYC: the data management…
JWG Calculates the Regulatory Costs of Brexit
If you are still considering which way to vote in tomorrow’s referendum on UK membership of the European Union, the regulatory implications of exiting the union may be enough to sway your decision. Research by independent think-tank JWG suggests Brexit could mean a decade of uncertainty across markets, a significant increase in red tape and…
New Gold Dream: A Consolidated Tape for European Bond Prices
Everybody wants it, somebody should build it, anybody could build it, yet nobody wants to pay for it. The story of Europe’s consolidated price tape for equities, first mooted under the original 2007 Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) is a logical conundrum, in part because regulators are predetermining market structure where no commercial imperative…
Silverfinch Extends Data Model to Deliver PRIIPs KID Compliance Solution
Silverfinch has extended the data distribution utility it developed for the look-through element of Solvency II to provide a data exchange capability that meets the requirements of the forthcoming Key Information Document (KID) regulation for Packaged Retail Investment and Insurance Products (PRIIPs). The regulation comes into force on January 1st 2017 and requires PRIIPs manufacturers…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Is Thomson Reuters REDI to Return to OMS/EMS Space?
One tidbit doing the rounds at our highly successful Intelligent Trading Summit in New York last month was Thomson Reuters’ imminent acquisition of Redi Global Technologies, the OMS/EMS business originally launched by Spear, Leeds & Kellogg then spun off by SLK owner Goldman Sachs to a consortium of investment bank owners, including Bank of America,…