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MiFID II – Why ISINs for OTC Derivatives are Bad for Transparency
By: Amir Khwaja, CEO of Clarus Financial Technology One of the goals of MiFID II is to improve transparency of price and volume in financial markets and the implementation date of January 3, 2018 finally gave me an opportunity to look at the post-trade data made publicly available by trading venues and Approved Publication Arrangements…
The Governance, Risk and Compliance Trends Set to shape 2018
By: Doug Morgan, Group Chief Executive, Cordium The past few years have been challenging for the compliance teams of financial firms and 2018 will be no different – if anything, the pace of evolution is set to accelerate on a number fronts. From input gathered from clients and industry contacts, Cordium has pulled together a…
Corlytics Regulatory Risk Intelligence Adds New Dimension to Compliance
With regulators taking a tough stance on non-compliance, enforcement actions running into billions of dollars, and compliance departments under stress, how can financial institutions pull-back from the brink, improve control of compliance, and reduce regulatory risk? We caught up with John Byrne, CEO at Corlytics (and former CEO at Information Mosaic) to discuss how firms…
ESMA’s First Heisenberg Moment
A blog by Steve Grob, director of group strategy, Fidessa Anyone who has watched the cult TV series Breaking Bad knows that Heisenberg was the clandestine alias adopted by the show’s chief protagonist, Walt White. The ‘original’ Heisenberg was, of course, the brilliant German theoretical physicist who developed his famous Uncertainty Principle. Simply stated it…
MiFID II – Day 1
At last, and after years of preparation, Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) has gone live – but not quite as expected, with both the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the German regulator, BaFin, granting Europe’s largest futures exchanges an extra 30 months to comply with the directive’s rules on trading and…
2018 – The Year of Regulation
Happy New Year and welcome to the Year of Regulation, aka the Year of the Dog and, for some capital markets participants struggling to stay abreast of regulatory requirements, the Year of Anxiety. At the top of the agenda are Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR),…
ESMA Publishes Missing Pieces of Reference Data Crucial to MiFID II
To the relief of market participants subject to Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published the last missing pieces of reference data crucial to trading under the regulation – MiFID II and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) transitional transparency calculations (TTC) for equity and…
Recorded Webinar: To be MiFID II or not to be? Approaches for 2018 and who is ready?
A candid review of the state of the market, which countries will transpose Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) on time and who will be ready to meet the compliance deadline of 3 January 2018? The webinar will provide valuable insights into how customers are addressing the challenges of MiFID II and what…
A RegTech Solution to Record Management and Archiving
Yaron Naor, vice president and general manager, Americas, at Arkivum will present the company’s regtech record management and archiving solution based on open source and proprietary technologies at this week’s A-Team Group RegTech Summit for Capital Markets in New York. We caught up with Naor before the event to find out a little about Arkivum’s…
IHS Markit Prepares SI Register to Support MiFID II Reporting
IHS Markit is preparing a registry of systematic internalisers (SIs) to help market participants comply with Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) trade reporting obligations. The SI list will go live at the end of November on Markit’s Counterparty Manager web portal and will detail SIs operating across European Securities and Markets Authority…