MoonX Releases Super-Fast Trading Technology in UK

MoonX has released its trading technology in the UK, offering software and hardware systems, including blockchain technology, to exchanges, brokerages, hedge funds, financial institutions and traders. It claims the world’s fastest exchange software, matching 25 million transactions per second and processing one order in 6 nano seconds, with processing speed delivered by patent pending matching engine technology that produces computational and processing speed advantages the company says have never previously been achieved. The exchange is built with enterprise-grade security, is hosted on physical servers, and uses AI, facial and mood recognition technology to exceed two-factor authentication.

Tradeteq Partners with Wroclaw University to Boost AI capabilities for Supply Chain Credit Analysis

Tradeteq, an electronic trading platform for institutional trade finance investors, has partnered with researchers at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (WUST) to explore and develop new models for data analysis using artificial intelligence (AI). Tradeteq has developed an advanced credit-scoring model for SMEs and corporations that uses machine learning tools to apply an evidence-based credit score for each company. The six-month collaboration with WUST’s Computer Science department, led by Dr Tomasz Kajdanowicz, will explore how company and trade flow data can be better analysed to improve supply chain credit analysis.

Refinitiv and NRI Go-live with Automated International Post-Trade Brokerage Processing

Refinitiv and Nomura Research Institute (NRI) have finally completed and taken live the software integration of NRI’s I-STAR/GX software platform into Refinitiv’s BETA wealth management brokerage processing platform, first mooted in the firms’ strategic partnership announced back in 2018. The partnership enables global diversification for Refinitiv’s retail and institutional clients, providing wealth management firms with automated settlement and straight-through processing of trades executed across all markets. I-STAR/GX allows these processes through a high-volume solution with single-stock record across all asset classes and markets, and real-time updates of intra-day transaction status changes across the settlement lifecycle.

Charles Stanley Selects Red Deer for MiFID II Research Compliance

Charles Stanley, a UK wealth management firms with £24.4 billion AUM, has selected Red Deer’s Research Management solution to integrate MiFID II compliance across its investment process. The solution captures and attributes research consumption across all channels including email, chat and voice, while its Outlook plugin and mobile application achieves compliance quickly and with minimal disruption. ““With Red Deer we can now more efficiently and effectively track research consumption, manage the risk of inducements, monitor budgets, assess value and achieve compliance in Europe,” says Freddy Horn, Service & Product Lead at Charles Stanley.

Fenergo Launches Digital KYC

Fenergo today announced the launch of a new product enhancement, Digital KYC, a real-time, rules-driven, API-enabled KYC solution enabling financial institutions to automate and perpetuate KYC compliance reviews. The product works with existing client lifecycle management (CLM) solutions, automating continuous customer due diligence (CDD) reviews for low to medium-risk clients and reducing the need for repeated manual requests for client data.

US Regulators Join Global Financial Innovation Network

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have confirmed their membership of the Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN).

They join 46 other financial authorities, central banks, and other international organisations with the goal of fostering greater cooperation between financial authorities on a variety of innovation topics and regulatory approaches.

Glue42 Partners with RocketFin on Behaviour Mining for Regulatory Requirements

Desktop solutions provider Glue42 has formed an implementation partnership with RocketFin Consulting to help the former extend its capabilities from classic interop into the world of business analytics, insight and process optimization in the field of regulatory compliance, particularly around MiFID II and CAT. Joint customers can expect improved support for common financial procedures and regulations, and extended capabilities from the Glue42 Insights product suite.

FCA Authorises Bloomberg Index Services as a Regulated Benchmark Administrator

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has authorised Bloomberg Index Services Limited (BISL) as a regulated UK benchmark administrator under the European Union Benchmark Regulation. BISL has conducted index administration since 2014, including serving as the administrator of the Bloomberg Barclays fixed income indices. In addition, it administers the Bloomberg Commodity Index, the UBS Bloomberg CMCI index, the Bloomberg AusBond family, Bloomberg’s BFIX, the Bloomberg Currency Indices and a number of strategy and custom index offerings.

IHS Markit Expands Global Dividend Forecasting Service

IHS Markit has doubled the number of companies covered by its Dividend Forecasting service. The expanded global service covers 28,000 stocks in more than 90 markets, providing up to five years of dividend forecast data for each stock covered and offering index providers, derivatives desks, asset managers and hedge funds with one of the broadest sets of dividend forecasts available. The model underpinning the expanded coverage was developed by the company’s data science team and includes machine learning, statistical modelling and time series analysis techniques that uncover patterns in multiple datasets and enable extended coverage of dividend forecasting.

TRG Screen Integrates Axon PEAR Information into FITS and INFOmatch

Following TRG Screen’s June 2019 acquisition of Axon and its PEAR (Policies, Explanations, Analytics, Repository) solution that consolidates exchange information including policies and pricing into a searchable online database, Axon says PEAR has reached coverage of over 250 markets and monitors over 650 documents and exchange notices daily. Over the past year, Axon has also added functionality to PEAR including vendor data notifications and comPEAR, which provides users with the ability to relate older versions of agreements with more recent iterations. TRG is working to integrate PEAR information into its FITS and INFOmatch spend management platforms.