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Corvil and Abide Collaborate to Support MiFID II Real-Time Reporting Obligation
Corvil is working with regulatory reporting provider Abide Financial to help firms comply with regulations that include a real-time reporting obligation such as Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). The partnership also reduces risk by reconciling middle and back office transaction data with a record of each order message that is sent and…
Markit Mixes Old and New to Deliver FRTB Compliance Solution
Markit is pulling together existing products and new developments to deliver a compliance solution for the market risk capital requirements of the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB), which comes into force in 2019. The solution is based on a modular platform, allowing banks to supplement existing infrastructure and processes as needed, and is…
Cardinal Analytics Selects Datactics FlowDesigner to Cleanse and Match Data
Cardinal Analytics, a fintech start-up specialising in US corporate bond risk analytics, has selected the Datactics FlowDesigner data quality and matching platform to ensure the data fed into its credit risk model is accurate, complete and timely. The Belfast based company decided to work with Datactics and sign a three-year licence for FlowDesigner after a…
Financial Machineries Extends Data Coverage of Global Trade Repository Analytics
Financial Machineries has extended coverage of foreign exchange data in its Global Trade Repository (GTR) Analytics solution, which collects OTC derivatives transaction data from trade repositories, cleanses and normalises the data, and distributes the data, including actual trade prices, to clients in less than two minutes. The additional FX data covers FX forwards and non-deliverable…
Recorded Webinar: Next Generation Technology for Data Quality
What impact are next generation technologies having on data management today, and what is the outlook for further implementation and process improvements. We explore technologies such as automation, cloud computing, a managed services model, and applying the distributed model of blockchain to address data quality and management issues. The need for new technologies Potential of…
ICE Builds Valuations Business with Acquisition of S&P’s Securities Evaluations and CMA
Intercontinental Exchange Group (ICE) is back on the acquisition trail and building its valuations business with a definitive agreement to acquire Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations and Credit Market Analysis (CMA) from McGraw Hill Financial. The agreement follows the group’s December 2015 acquisition of Interactive Data, which holds a significant stake in the evaluated pricing…
Markit Partners WorkFusion to Automate Manual Processes and Deliver Greater Value to Customers
Markit has teamed up with WorkFusion to automate some of the high volume manual processes that support its Information, Processing and Solutions business divisions. Automation is expected to increase the efficiency and accuracy of the processes, improve operational performance, reduce costs, and enable the company to deliver greater value to its customers. Markit considered building…
Publishing Reference Data in a Post-MiFIR World
By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team One area where a delay in implementing MiFIR would allow market participants and regulators much needed time to sort out vital details is the area of reference data publication. ESMA has made it clear that, in…
Choosing an Approach to Analytics: Is a Single Technology Platform the Right Investment?
By Abhishek Bhattacharya, technology practice lead at Sapient Global Markets Effective analytics provide insight into what happened, why it happened and what is likely to happen in the future, and include the factors that could help shape different outcomes. But when it comes to the ‘how’ of analytics – including which technology platform or platforms…
Recorded Webinar: Risk Data Analytics
How is data being managed and fed into analytics to improve risk management today? In this webinar we explore: During this session we will discover how; Incoming regulations, from BCBS 239 to the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book and Solvency II, are putting new emphasis on the importance of accurate, timely and consistent risk…