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Making Market Data Instantaneous: Beast Apps Shakes Up Trader Workflow
With its Monoceros Market Data Platform (MDP), financial data, analytics, trading and risk technology company The Beast Apps expects to change the traditional client sales trader workflow from the way that has operated for decades. Intelligent Trading Technology spoke with Vinayek K. Singh, CEO of The Beast Apps, discussing what is novel about Monoceros (rhymes…
Recorded Webinar: MiFID II: Data for transaction reporting
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) is complemented by Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR), which builds out transaction reporting requirements with a number of new reporting obligations. The data and data management challenges of reporting include an increase in instruments that must be reported and the addition of several new fields to…
Recorded Webinar: Trade/Order Tracking & Time-Stamping for Regulatory Compliance
At the beginning of 2018 in Europe, and before the end of 2017 in the US, new time-stamping requirements will come into force, under European MiFID II regulation and the US SEC’s Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) project. The RTS 25 provision of MiFID II sets exact millisecond and microsecond levels for time-stamp accuracy depending on…
Tom Dalglish Switches Role to Head HSBC’s Innovation Labs
Tom Dalglish has switched from the role of senior data and integration manger – IT transformation at HSBC to become the bank’s head of technical services – applied innovation. In his new role, Dalglish is responsible for industrialising the bank’s global Innovation Labs and researching and developing emerging technologies such as blockchain, cyber security, financial…
Data Management Summit Promises Plenty of Compelling Content
Data Management Summit is back in London on March 15th, hosted by A-Team Group and promising a great line-up of speakers who will discuss everything from driving value out of data to data governance, quality, visualisation, client onboarding, Know Your Customer (KYC) and, of course, Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). It’s going…
The Trading Regulations Handbook
Need to know all the essentials about the regulations impacting trading infrastructure? Welcome to the first edition of our A-Team Trading Regulations Handbook which provides all the essentials about regulations impacting trading operations, data and technology. A-Team’s Trading Regulations Handbook is a great way to see at-a-glance: All the regulations that are impacting trading technology…
West Coast Hedge Fund Reduces Trade Errors With LiquidityBook
Since San Francisco-based multi-strategy hedge fund Pier 88 Investment Partners implemented LBX Buyside POEMS (Portfolio, Order and Execution Management System) from service provider LiquidityBook in the third quarter of 2016, the fund has eliminated trade errors, gotten greater transparency and enhanced its networking capability. Pier 88’s trade execution and portfolio management has had “very noticeable”…
Driving Business Value Out of the Legal Entity Identifier
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is useful as a unique, unambiguous and persistent entity identifier, but when integrated with other datasets such as securities it can deliver both operational and business benefits. Issues around driving business value from the LEI were discussed during a recent A-Team Group webinar that was moderated by A-Team editor Sarah…
Recorded Webinar: Driving business value from the LEI
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) has become a viable standard to help financial institutions identify business entities that are party to financial transactions and fulfil regulatory obligations for entity data. Linked to third-party, corporate hierarchy and beneficial ownership data, the potential of the LEI extends to meet not only regulatory requirements, but also the need…
ICE Atrium Acquisition Streamlines New York-Toronto Low Latency Ties
The Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) acquisition of TMX Atrium, the wireless and extranet infrastructure services business owned by Canadian exchange operator TMX Group, could expand the low latency networks available to customers of ICE’s NYSE subsidiary. Following ICE’s acquisition of Interactive Data in December 2015, that company’s 7ticks low latency network was integrated with NYSE’s Secure…