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Thomson Reuters offers RTS 27 Now for SI reporting under MiFID II
Thomson Reuters has responded to the need for Systematic Internalisers (SIs) to make their first regulatory report under MiFID II by December 2018 with RTS 27 Now, a targeted reporting solution that uses the company’s high-performance processing platform, Velocity Analytics, to manage data required for SI reports. Under the MiFID II SI regime, banks had…
Could Privatisation Give Dun & Bradstreet the Push It Needs to Succeed?
The $6.9 billion acquisition of Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) by a consortium of private equity investors led by CC Capital and Cannae Holdings, announced this week, could herald the streamlining and modernisation of the venerable 177-year-old, publicly traded credit data specialist, according to observers. Founded in 1841 as a credit information provider, the company is…
ITRS Partners Velocimetrics to Improve Operational Resilience
ITRS Group has partnered Velocimetrics to give users of its ITRS Geneos real-time monitoring solution the ability to independently trace and analyse the real-time performance of every trade as it is processed and improve operational resilience. The need for improved resilience was raised earlier this month in a joint discussion paper from the FCA, PRA…
SIP Operating Committees Add Three Advisory Committee Members
The US Securities Information Processors’ (SIPs’) Operating Committees have recruited three new members to contribute retail investor perspective to their 11-member Advisory Committee: Chris Nielsen, managing director, Charles Schwab & Co.; W. Todd Watkins, director, E*TRADE Financial; and Matt Billings, managing director, TD Ameritrade. The SIP Operating Committees govern the entities that operate the systems…
The Digital Transformation of Financial Reporting: Why XBRL Should be on Everyone’s Radar
By Ken Krupa, Chief Technology Officer, MarkLogic The standard corporate financial reporting language known as eXtensible Business Reporting Language, or XBRL, has been around for more than 20 years. Based on the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), XBRL is a common global mechanism for communicating and sharing data across…
NorthRow Joins FCA Regulatory Sandbox
Regtech and compliance specialist NorthRow has been selected to join the fourth cohort of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)’s Regulatory Sandbox, an initiative launched in 2015 to provide a channel for businesses to test products and services in a controlled and customised live market environment. NorthRow (formerly Contego) delivers customer onboarding through a combination of…
Interxion Unveils New LON-3 Data Centre
Colocation data centre service provider Interxion this week announced the planned October launch of LON-3, the latest addition to its central London campus, with an event at London’s City Hall on July 11. Interxion’s Brick Lane data centre is already home to a number of electronic execution venues, including Instinet’s BlockMatch, the London Metal Exchange’s…
ESMA Delays SI Implementation for Derivatives by Six Months
ESMA has pushed back the systematic internaliser (SI) implementation dates for derivatives by six months due to concerns over a lack of data completeness among market participants. The delay – to March 1, 2019 – mirrors the earlier treatment of MiFID II derivatives rules on open access, which were deferred from January 2018 to January…
Stephan Wolf Discusses this Week’s MiFID II LEI Mandate and Emerging Digital Certificates
The MiFID II mandate requiring the use of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) to identify parties to financial transactions came into play on Monday, causing barely a ripple in trading markets, but still posing problems in terms of lapsed LEIs – a problem that Stephan Wolf, CEO of the Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF), suggests could be…
Intelligent Trading Summit Tracks Developments in Best Execution
Best execution, smart order routing and finding liquidity were under the spotlight during a panel session at A-Team Group’s recent Intelligent Trading Summit in New York City. So too, was the SEC’s ‘maker taker’ pilot designed to generate data that will provide the Commission and market participants with information to facilitate an informed, data driven discussion about…