A-Team Insight Brief
Norges Bank Investment Management Completes First Trade on Appital Turquoise Book Builder
Appital, the equity capital markets technology solution, and Turquoise, the pan-European MTF majority owned by London Stock Exchange Group, have gone live with the Appital Turquoise BookBuilder, with Norges Bank Investment Management successfully originating and executing the first trade, through a series of bilateral transactions.
According to Appital, this is the world’s first algorithmic buy side to buy-side bookbuilding platform that enables institutional investors to proactively participate in liquidity discovery, price formation and execution opportunities in multiple days’ volume in listed equities. EMS vendors connected at the time of first trade included Flextrade, Factset’s Portware and TS Imagine.
Push Technology Adds Enhanced Monitoring Capabilities and New REST Adapter to Diffusion Cloud
Real-time data streaming and messaging solutions provider Push Technology has enhanced its Diffusion Cloud offering with the addition of a new REST adapter and improved data monitoring capabilities.
The new REST adapter enables development teams to transform existing APIs into streaming data feeds, without the need to re-architect backend systems. The monitoring improvements now makes it easier for Ops teams to understand how their Diffusion Cloud services are being used, identify anomalous behavior, and pro-actively respond to any potential issues before they impact end users.
Raymond James Selects FactSet for Virtual Wealth Workstations
Raymond James US private client group has selected FactSet as its primary technology and market data provider. FactSet has worked alongside Raymond James to virtually deploy over 7,500 advanced wealth workstations to financial advisors throughout the US, providing advisors with FactSet’s content and analytics within a modern, web-based interface to reduce the firm’s dependence on locally installed applications.
Fairlight Asset Management Upgrades with SS&C Eze Eclipse
Fairlight Asset Management, a Sydney, Australia-based global equity manager, has selected SS&C Technologies Eze Eclipse to update is existing workflows and provide a front-to-back investment management platform. Fairlight is using the solution to optimise team activities, ensure compliance across global portfolios, and reconcile its full investment book of record on a daily basis.
Parameta and PeerNova Launch ClearConsensus for Independent Price Valuation
Parameta Solutions, the Data & Analytics division of TP ICAP Group, and PeerNova, a data analytics and management company, have partnered to launch ClearConsensus™, a transparent consensus network for Independent Price Valuation. The service aims to improve business resilience and regulatory response at global banks, by addressing the risk environments for price valuation and control groups.
ClearConsensus combines Parameta’s Evaluated Price (EvP) with PeerNova’s Cuneiform® technology platform to directly introduce observable transactions data via the EvP, while maintaining participant anonymity and data privacy. Real-time analytics help identify market trends to optimise capital allocation and mitigate risk.
Genesis Global Enhances Platform to Streamline Data Integration, Reporting and Full-stack Application Development
Genesis Global, the low-code application development platform purpose-built for financial markets, has announced a number of platform enhancements designed to it faster and easier for software developers to build new applications and enhance legacy systems.
The enhancements include a new low-code language for creating Genesis applications, streamlined data integration capabilities, a new reporting module, and Oracle database support.
EFAMA Supports Move Towards Global Reporting Standards
Europe’s asset management industry has backed calls for globally aligned sustainability reporting standards. The call from the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) came in a written response to a position paper from the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) of private companies. It said that investors can only help bring about zero-emissions strategies if they have the sort of data and insights that can be obtained through common reporting standards.
VRF and SASB Amalgamated into IFRS Foundation
The unification of ESG reporting standards took a further step this week when the Value Reporting Foundation, one of the early innovators in setting ESG disclosure guidance and founder of the Integrated Reporting Framework (IRF) and SASB Standards, was amalgamated into the IFRS Foundation. Their functions will continue within the International Sustainability Standards Board, which was created at the Glasgow COP26 summit last year.
MiFID ESG Requirements go Live, Compliance Caution Urged
The ESG reporting requirement under the amended Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) came into effect this week, with warnings from some market participants that the new regulation would add more costs and challenges to compliance teams. Financial infrastructure and data provider SIX, however, said the obligations needn’t overwhelm firms.
“Regulatory complacency is unwise for firms at this time, as the introduction of additional ESG requirements could add ongoing MiFID compliance issues. However, much of the sustainability data and criteria needed to comply with the suitability requirements under the MiFID II update is the same as that housed already for the EU SFDR and the Green Taxonomy,” said Janine Hofer-Wittwer, Senior Product Manager of Financial Information at SIX. “For market participants, the goal is to work with data providers able to source and distil the data and provide it in a way that is easy to implement, minimising the lift needed for the latest and future ESG regulatory requirements.”
Trading Technologies Launches Connectivity to NSE IFSC-SGX Connect for International Nifty Equity Derivatives Trading
Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), the global provider of trading software, infrastructure and data solutions has begun offering clients access to the popular Nifty equity derivatives through NSE IFSC-SGX Connect, a new joint initiative between Singapore Exchange and National Stock Exchange of India launched on July 29.
As one of the first technology providers to offer international market participants access to the NSE IFSC-SGX Connect, TT is giving global banks and other major financial institutions that use the TT® platform seamless access to Nifty equity derivatives alongside products from more than 50 other major international markets, including SGX Group.