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Giving Away the Value of Reference Data
By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team Reference data is not only a foundation of data management, it is also a revenue earning commodity, particularly for exchanges and issuers of ISINs. MiFIR requires exchanges, multilateral trading facilities, organised trading facilities and systematic internalisers…
MiFID II: Putting the Clock Back
The type of trader you are will determine how you set your watch. That is the upshot of ‘RTS 25: Draft regulatory technical standards on clock synchronization’ published by the European Securities and Markets Commission in late September under the revision of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II). “MiFID II moved away from…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Talking Intelligently at ITS on February 4
With just under a month to go, we’re putting the finishing touches to the agenda for our Intelligent Trading Summit in London on February 4. I’ve waxed lyrical about the topics we’ll be discussing on our series of panels (see agenda here for a recap). But I’m also excited about the presentations we’ve lined up…
Regulation Review – AIFMD
As January 1st 2016 approaches and regulations such as BCBS 239 and Solvency II come into force, bringing with them considerable data management demands, other more seasoned regulations, among them the Alternative Investment Fund Management Directive (AIFMD) that took effect in 2013, continue to pose data management challenges. AIFMD was introduced by the European Union…
Living with Delay – Postponing the Implementation of MiFID II will Simply Delay the Inevitable
By Tomas Kindler, Strategic Services, SIX Securities Services The decision in mid-December by the US Federal Reserve to begin the process of raising interest rates has been hailed in the press as the start of a change of mindset, situating the 2008 financial crisis and the reaction to it as a past event. However, both…
The FIGI Moves Forward Via Inclusion in ISO 20022 Messaging Standard
The open source Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI), formerly the Bloomberg Global Identifier (BBGID), is coming closer to being a primary security identifier following its inclusion in the ISO 20022 external code set for financial instrument identification and its formal approval as a standard by the Object Management Group (OMG). The identifier is also starting…
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…
The Train on Platform MiFID 2 is Delayed by One Year
This is a contributed article from Steve Grob, Director of Group Strategy, Fidessa. Not surprising to see that it now looks odds-on that we’ll get a full one year delay on the implementation of MiFID 2. This will embarrass the politicians who don’t want to be seen as going soft on those “wreckless” bankers, but…
Avox Sets Out Development Plans for 2016
Avox has set out its development plans for 2016, including the introduction of a sanctions screening service, support for MiFID II compliance and enhancements to its managed and Know Your Customer (KYC) services. The company, a specialist in entity data services, will also work with its parent DTCC and other subsidiaries, such as Clarient and…
MiFID II: Rewriting the Code
Demanding regulation is transforming order and execution management systems into detail-driven trading engines The capacity of order management systems (OMSs) to support buy-side desks was challenged at the Barcelona-based Fixed Income Leaders Summit 2015 on 14 October by John Greenan, a front office systems specialist, who suggested that some providers “had not kept pace” with…