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Recorded Webinar: Best practice timestamping and clock synchronisation

Timestamping and clock synchronisation have been embedded in the EU by Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and are also a requirement of the US SEC Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT). The webinar will discuss how well firms have realised the MiFID II requirement, how it differs from the CAT requirement, and best practice...

Recorded Webinar: Deploying cloud solutions in modern trading infrastructures

Cloud technology and other hosted solutions are finding increasing favour in in modern trading infrastructures, but how best can they be deployed and what can they deliver? The webinar will discuss the challenges and opportunities of cloud and hosted trading solutions, and detail best practice approaches to deployment. Listen to the webinar to find out...

Recorded Webinar: MiFID II trading technology requirements – what’s worked and what hasn’t?

The incredible breadth of coverage of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) always meant there were going to be workarounds. Now that the implementation deadline of January 3, 2018 has passed, how did the marketplace fare in its attempts to comply, where was it successful, and which areas still need work? Listen to...

Recorded Webinar: Best practice data management for trading automation

High quality, consistent and timely data is key to automation of the trading and investment cycle, but while firms are keen to push on with automation, barriers remain. These include sourcing the right data, timely delivery, data quality and ensuring regulatory compliance. The webinar will discuss the foundational role of data in trading automation, and...

Recorded Webinar: MiFID II and FRTB Data Analytics, Benchmarks and Risk Modelling

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) require huge volumes of data to be sourced and managed. This webinar will discuss what sort of data analytics you need to implement to be able to process and analyse MiFID II data, and what risk model data,...

Recorded Webinar: Data as a Service: Realizing its Value for Data Management

Faced with substantial and rapidly changing regulatory demands, trading firms are realizing the need for agility in the way they handle data. With global regulations like MiFID II and FRTB reshaping data requirements – and the prospect of future measures introducing yet more reporting obligations – firms need to put in place data management platforms...

Recorded Webinar: Voice recording for communications surveillance under MIFID II/MAR

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....

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...

Recorded Webinar: High performance market data management technologies

The challenges and opportunities of managing market data using hardware acceleration, a deterministic approach to low latency connectivity and in-memory and other high speed databases. What are industry best practices for access to high-speed market information? How are firms using hardware acceleration? What is a deterministic approach to low latency connectivity and why is it...

Recorded Webinar: Adding Intelligence to Electronic Execution for Best Execution Under MiFID II

MiFID II’s provisions for best execution promise to be more rigorous than its predecessor’s. They also will be applied to a host of relatively illiquid and potentially more complex asset classes. Compliance will be challenging. This webinar looks at the emerging requirement for truly smart order routing under MiFID II’s best execution rules: Approaches to...