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A-Team Webinar Discusses Approaches to Best Execution under MiFID II
The best execution requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) present several challenges including the need to manage more data, time-stamp and sequence messages, and report in line with the regulation’s compliance mandate. Financial institutions that implemented the first iteration of MiFID after it came into force in 2007 may have a…
ICBC Standard Bank Implements Fenergo Client Lifecycle Management
ICBC Standard Bank is implementing Fenergo’s client lifecycle management solution to meet Know Your Customer, Anti-Money Laundering and customer onboarding rules and regulations, and improve operational efficiency. The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) acquired a majority stake in London-based Standard Bank from South Africa’s Standard Bank Group early last year and took on…
Oslo Børs Extends Stay in London Through Partnership with London Stock Exchange
Oslo Børs has evaluated its technology partnership with London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), which hosts the Norwegian exchange’s equity, fixed income and derivatives markets, and decided to extend the relationship for five years effective from April 2017. Oslo Børs is one of over 40 exchanges and venues that use LSEG’s Millennium Exchange platform, but unlike…
Asset Control Integrates Matlab with AC Plus Data Management Platform
Asset Control has integrated its AC Plus data management platform with MathWorks’ Matlab financial analytics language to bring data and financial models closer together and deliver more robust calculation and validation of risk factor and valuations data. The integration recognises the use of Matlab by many Asset Control customers and overcomes the need to move…
Interactive Data Extends North American Liquidity Indicators Service to Europe
Interactive Data has extended its North American Liquidity Indicators Service to cover European and Asia-Pacific corporate and sovereign securities. It has also expanded coverage of the service by adding TBA-eligible mortgage-backed securities pass-throughs and agency debentures to US corporates, Latin American corporates and municipal bonds. The Liquidity Indicators Service was introduced to the US market…
Markit Integrates EDM with VistaOne Data Warehouse and vReporter
Markit has completed the integration of VistaOne and vReporter with its enterprise data management (EDM) software and is preparing to bring a combined EDM, data warehouse and reporting solution to market. The company acquired the VistaOne data warehouse and reporting solution as part of its acquisition of CoreOne Technologies in August 2015. It also acquired…
Velocimetrics VMX EndToEnd Offers Complete Business Process Tracking and Analysis
Velocimetrics has pulled together its data tracking and performance analysis technologies to deliver a single platform designed to help financial institutions track and analyse what is happening across complete business processes in real time. The platform, VMX EndToEnd, will be Velocimetrics’ strategic platform going forward and has been built in response to customer requests for…
Corvil Extends Data Capture Platform to Deliver Non-Intrusive MiFID II Solution
Corvil has extended its network data capture and analytics platform to deliver a Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) compliance solution that is applied as an overlay to existing infrastructure and integrates a lightweight agent that collects time-stamped events from software applications. The solution uses an independent system to gather precision data needed…
SIX Financial Information Develops Utility for Compliance with Investor Protection Rules
SIX Financial Information is developing a document management utility designed to help financial institutions comply with investor protection rules issued by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and due to take effect on January 1st 2017. The rules are also an element of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), a European regulation…
OneMarketData Adds Strategy Backtesting Platform to OneTick Product Portfolio
OneMarketData has introduced a strategy development and large-scale backtesting platform that is powered by the company’s OneTick data management and time series analytics solution and supported by global multi-asset class market history available through the OneTick Cloud. The platform is called OneTick Strategy Backtesting and is available immediately as either a hosted service or deployed…