The European Central Bank (ECB) has said the “development of high-quality data” is key to a set of statistical indicators it’s created to help the bank incorporate sustainability risks and markets in its monetary policy decision making. Executive board member Isabel Schnabel made the comment after the ECB said its indicators would focus on sustainable finance, financed emissions and the impact of physical climate risks on portfolios.
To date, the industry’s regulatory compliance focus for upcoming European MiFID II and Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) has been on issues including the structure of trading facilities, systematic internalisation, governance, best execution and time-stamping. MiFID II and MAR also contain provisions, however, increasing the requirements for recording and archiving voice communication related to securities trading....
Touted as the next frontier of artificial intelligence, agentic AI hogged the data management headlines in 2025. Seemingly ushering the realisation of the no-more-drudge-work predictions that heralded the arrival of general AI years back, agentic AI has certainly become the target of institutional investment and developer innovation in the past 12 months. According to a...
Now in its 15th year the TradingTech Summit London brings together the European trading technology capital markets industry and examines the latest changes and innovations in trading technology and explores how technology is being deployed to create an edge in sell side and buy side capital markets financial institutions.
The Global LEI System – or GLEIS – has been in development since the middle of last year. Development has been patchy at times, but much has been done, leaving fewer outstanding issues, but also raising new questions. What’s emerging is a structure for the GLEIS going forward, complete with a mechanism for registering and...