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Preparing for MiFID II Data Requirements
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) is a wide-ranging regulation that aims to add transparency to Europe’s financial services sector in order to ensure investor protection and integrity of markets. The regulation extends the scope of MiFID, which focused on equities, to cover pre-trade, trade and post-trade activities across many asset classes. This…
Join next week’s Data Management Summit for the Low-Down on Data Governance
Data governance, lineage and quality are in the spotlight at next week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in New York City, with discussion expected to focus on progress, regulatory impact, strategic approaches and the potential benefits of a strong data governance framework beyond regulatory compliance. Michael Vapenik, enterprise data governance officer at American Express, will…
Firms Face Lack of Clarity on MiFID II Data Transparency Obligations
Meeting the data transparency obligations of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) continues to be a challenge for financial institutions struggling to manage the scale of change presented by the regulation, improve data quality to achieve transparency, and implement solutions without final clarity from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on outstanding…
The Data Management Response to a Volatile Regulatory Landscape
The data management response to a regulatory landscape that is volatile and uncertain should be strategic, agile and future proof. It should also consider technology options including cloud, machine learning and blockchain. The need for a strategic approach to regulation at a time when US President Trump intends to repeal some financial legislation and the…
MiFID II Handbook
As the 3 January 2018 compliance deadline for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) approaches, A-Team Group has pulled together everything you need to know about the regulation in a precise and concise handbook. The MiFID II Handbook, commissioned by Thomson Reuters, provides a guide to aspects of the regulation that will have…
Hundreds of Data Practitioners Join A-Team Data Management Summit
Last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit was a cracking event that discussed everything from creating value from data to navigating the changing regulatory landscape, improving data governance and quality, client onboarding, big data, data visualisation and more. Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II) was also on the agenda, with panel sessions reviewing the…
The Next Frontier in Data Management Responses to Regulation
Not a conference on technology for capital markets goes by without many mentions of regulation, so here at A-Team Group we have put together a distinguished panel of speakers that will review the regulatory landscape and suggest how firms can develop data strategies that are compatible with a volatile environment at this week’s Data Management…
The CDO Imperative: Harnessing Data and Creating Value
Harnessing data and creating value is a burning issue in capital markets, and one that will be centre stage at next week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in London. Moderating a panel of chief data officers (CDOs) and data management directors, A-Team chief content officer Andrew Delaney will question how CDOs are embedding data into…
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…
Thomson Reuters Teams Up with Kx to Deliver Superfast MiFID II Solution
Thomson Reuters has teamed up with Kx to enhance its Velocity Analytics platform and deliver ultra-high-speed processing of real time, streaming and historical data to meet the requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). The platform has been refreshed and released as Version 8, with Kx high-performance computing technology replacing high-speed processing…