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The Missing Piece of the Data Governance Puzzle
The benefits firms expect to gain from effective data governance include higher quality data, a reduction in duplicate processing and reduced costs, but reaching these gains is not always easy as firms report a shortage of technical capability around data governance, problems with legacy systems, and a lack of management buy-in and budget. In terms…
NovaSparks Adds Markets To Ticker Product
Paris-based market data company NovaSparks, which offers field programmable gate array (FPGA) services, has added 10 markets to its NovaTick ticker plant product. The additions bring NovaSparks total coverage in NovaTick to a total of over 50 markets. The new markets include the Osaka Securities Exchange, Chi-X Japan and SBI JapanNext in Japan; the Australian…
Fonetic Upgrades Automatic Trade Reconstruction Technology
Fonetic has extended its automatic trade reconstruction (ATR) solution to give compliance and surveillance officers more features and functionality to support the investigation of trades, detection of fraud and the ability to export an ATR timeline as a data file to a regulator. The company suggests the solution is well suited to the trade reconstruction…
Bloomberg Tradebook Launches Customizable Algorithm
Bloomberg Tradebook, the global agency brokerage business, has launched a Relative Benchmark Trading Algorithm on its PAIR cross-asset trading platform. The added algorithm gives Tradebook users the ability to customize how they trade securities relative to benchmarks they choose, according to Michael Baradas, cross-asset product manager at Bloomberg Tradebook. “Active investors are trying to find…
US Regulation Experts: Blockchain Could Require Exchange Registration
Could using blockchain require registration with US regulators as a broker or exchange? That’s the caution sounded in a discussion of the legal and regulatory challenges for banks using new financial technology hosted by Polsinelli, a law firm with offices in 20 US cities, at its New York office on December 8. The US Securities…
GoldenSource Combines RiskHub and EDM to Deliver FRTB Solution
GoldenSource has combined its RiskHub risk data management and analytics capabilities with its enterprise data management (EDM) software to deliver a solution for Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation that comes into force in January 2019. The GoldenSource solution will be available to banks from January 2017 and supports both the standard and…
Time Stamps Key To Market Data Performance, TCA Provider Tells Webinar
To get the highest performance possible from managing market data operations, especially connectivity, a deterministic approach may not be the only one that should be taken, observed Louis Lovas, director of solutions at OneMarketData, who spoke in a December 8 webinar sponsored by the transaction cost analysis provider, and hosted by Intelligent Trading Technology and…
The Challenges and Opportunities of Data Lineage
Data lineage is driven by regulation and impeded by technology complexity and poor understanding, although once these impediments are tackled, successful implementation can yield significant business and operational benefits. The challenges and opportunities of establishing a sustainable solution for data lineage were discussed during a recent A-Team Group webinar that was hosted by A-Team editor…
Thomson Reuters-BestX Link Enhances TCA With More Data
The pairing of Thomson Reuters and FX analytics specialist BestX puts together a comprehensive data set with more analytical functions and visualisation capabilities, according to executives from both companies. In the partnership announced December 5, Thomson Reuters will offer connectivity to BestX’s transaction cost analysis (TCA) service, and Thomson Reuters users may send trades automatically…
MiFID II post Brexit
Intelligent Trading Technology Video MiFID II post Brexit The shock Brexit decision by the UK to leave the EU sent waves of uncertainty through the trading markets. But what happens now? What timetable should both the UK and international banks and brokers and institutional clients be working to in order to prepare for the reality…