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Intelligent Trading Summit: MiFID II Tops the List of Regulatory Challenges
Regulation will have a significant impact on the trading community this year with Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) expected to present the most onerous challenges. Other regulations likely to cause headaches include the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s proposed Regulation AT covering automated trading, the Market Abuse Directive and Market Abuse Regulation that…
Indata Adds Compliance-As-A-Service to iPM Epic Big Data Platform
Indata has added compliance-as-a-service to its iPM Epic big data platform that supports intelligent portfolio management for asset managers on a global scale. The service is designed to complement Indata compliance capability already on the platform and integrates complex subject matter sourced from third-party information providers. The initial offering is a global shareholder disclosure service…
Intelligent Trading Summit Discusses the Potential of High Performance Technologies and the Drag of Regulation
A-Team Group’s Intelligent Trading Summit got off to a great start last week with A-Team chief content officer Andrew Delaney enjoying a fireside chat with BNP Paribas head of electronic execution strategy Kee-Meng Tan. Delaney and Tan discussed the need for speed in electronic trading, the adoption of new technologies and opportunities to look beyond…
Regulation Review – Data Management Challenges of MiFID II
The compliance deadline for the European Union’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) may yet be pushed back a year to January 2018, but the need to tackle the data management challenges of MiFID II is immediate, whatever the European Commission’s final decision on deadlines. The regulation is much broader than the initial…
Itiviti Details Plans Following its Formation through the Unification of Orc and CameronTec
Itiviti has set out development plans following its formation through the unification of Orc Group, a provider of electronic trading technology for listed derivatives, and CameronTec Group, a provider of FIX messaging infrastructure and connectivity. Torben Munch, CEO at Itiviti and formerly CEO at Orc, says the combined company is more than the sum of…
MiFID II: A Little Too Much Transparency?
Has transparency gone too far under planned revisions to the reporting requirements of the 2007 Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)? Market participants say that it will expose sensitive market activity, while creating a massive operational headache. While traders assume they will just have to deal with this pain they are in limbo until the…
DTCC Promotes Development of Distributed Ledger Technology
DTCC has thrown its weight behind distributed ledger technology as a means of modernising post-trade processes and says it is in the best position to coordinate evaluation and standardisation of the distributed ledger platform, address challenges and decide whether it is a better solution than existing technology. The company sets out its views on distributed…
AxiomSL Adds Solution for SA-CCR Compliance to Regulatory Reporting Platform
AxiomSL has added a solution that meets the requirements of Basel’s Standardised Approach for Measuring Counterparty Credit Risk Exposures (SA-CCR) to its regulatory reporting platform ahead of the rule’s compliance deadline of January 1st 2017. SA-CCR will replace the Current Exposure Method and Standardised Method calculations enshrined in the Capital Requirements Directive IV (CRD IV)…
What do banks need to do to survive in the new risk era?
By Neil Vernon, Chief Technology Officer at Gresham UK With high profile internal security breaches, stringent regulation and regulatory fines on the up, banks are under greater pressure than ever before to both guarantee and evidence the integrity of their data. But with existing banking IT infrastructure – patchworked systems, siloed processes and fragmented organisations…
Bloomberg Opens Website Dedicated to the Financial Instrument Global Identifier and Adds API
Bloomberg continues to promote industry use of the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI), a free and open data standard for financial instrument identification, through the introduction of OpenFIGI.com and OpenFIGI API. The OpenFIGI.com website provides access to tools for identifying, mapping and requesting FIGI datasets, while the OpenFIGI API allows mapping from third-party identifiers to…