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Wall Street Horizon Extends Corporate Events Intelligence with EventBreaks
Wall Street Horizon, an alternative data provider specialising in corporate events intelligence, has introduced EventBreaks, a service that alerts institutional investors to changes in corporate events. The service covers each of the 40-plus event types the company tracks and provides granular information around how events move, alerting users to the time, date and substance of…
Eagle Investment Systems Discusses Move to Agile Delivery Platform
Eagle Investment Systems has released the next generation of its core portfolio management software, saying the 2017 release will be its last traditional software release as it is moving to a more agile and continuous delivery model to help users keep pace with evolving regulatory demands and technology change. The company is also firming up…
SmartStream RDU Fills MiFID II Gap with Systematic Internaliser Register
The SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU) is finalising a service – the Systematic Internaliser Register – that will allow systematic internalisers (SIs) within the scope of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) to publish financial instruments for which they will offer SI services and firms to identify whether counterparties are SIs and therefore…
ANNA DSB Hits Deadline to Issue ISINs for OTC Derivatives
The Association of National Numbering Agencies’ Derivatives Service Bureau (ANNA DSB) has met its deadline to issue ISINs for OTC derivatives as required under Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). The service went live today, October 2, 2017, with early users being onboarded, ISINs being created for OTC derivatives, and a global OTC…
Thomson Reuters Resolves the MiFID II No LEI, No Trade Problem
Thomson Reuters has responded to the ‘No LEI, No Trade’ problem posed by Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) with an LEI Profiling Service that allows users to identify LEI gaps that need to be closed before the January 3, 2018 deadline and check the data quality within their reportable client universes. The…
Recorded Webinar: Pre- & post-trade transparency: quote & trade reporting under MiFID II
MiFID II sets transparency requirements for pre- and post-trade disclosure of order details, along with transaction reporting that identifies reference and post-trade data. The directive’s related MiFIR regulation extends pre-transparency rules to apply to depository receipts, exchange-traded funds, certificates trading on a venue, bonds and structured products trading on a regulated market, and emission allowances…
A-Team Infographic Illustrates the Pain Points of MiFID II
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) is a game changer for European capital markets and a headache for trading operations and data management functions developing compliance solutions for its exacting requirements. At A-Team Group, we’ve been tracking industry progress on the regulation and with less than three months to go before the compliance…
Recorded Webinar: Managing Entity Data for MiFID II Compliance: No LEI, No Trade
MiFID II’s “No LEI, No Trade” requirement mandates all entities trading with European counterparties across all asset classes need to obtain legal entity identifiers (LEIs). This represents a major shift in the way LEIs are used for regulatory reporting and firms that are affected by MiFID II should obtain the relevant LEIs sooner rather than…
GDPR will Curb the Digital Wild West, but the Cost will be High
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will curb the digital wild west and improve protection of personal data, but the cost of implementation will be high and now is the time to get started to meet the compliance deadline of May 25, 2018. Taking part in an A-Team Group webinar on the regulation, subject matter experts…
SIX Stands Ready to Help Firms with MiFID II and PRIIPs Document Exchange
SIX Financial Information is standing ready to help firms meet the data and document exchange requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs) – both of which regulations have early January 2018 compliance deadlines. The company released its Regulatory Document Hub (RegHub) a month or…