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Opinion: Reference Data and MiFID II/MiFIR: New ESMA Consultation
By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team Indications from ESMA are that it still intends to issue technical standards for reference data under MiFID II/MiFIR this month, so work being done now to examine the existing draft standards should pay off by enabling…
FIX Reference Data Subgroup Update: Reference Data and MiFID II/MiFIR
By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team Reference data has traditionally been treated as a ‘back-office’ function – almost as though only data that is fast-changing has relevance to a firm’s trading operations. But for more and more firms today, reference data has…
Talking Data Management with Andrew Delaney: Back and Bigger Than Ever
Excitement is mounting here at A-Team towers as we put the finishing touches to the agenda for our Data Management Summit conference in London on October 1. And of course, right behind it is our planned summit in New York on November 3, of which more later in a future edition of this missive. We…
Talking Data Management with Andrew Delaney: A Salesman to the Core
Anyone who’s ever met Rob Flatley will attest to the fact that he was born to sell CoreOne Technologies, and probably to Markit. And so it transpires that Markit has bought yet again in the enterprise data space, this time parting company with $200 million for CoreOne and its One-suffixed affiliates in the Symphony Group,…
Joining up your regulatory response: BCBS 239 attestation and the new Senior Manager Regime (SMR)
By Dennis Slattery, CEO, EDMworks The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is pushing forward with a strategy requiring senior managers to sign written statements or “attestations” in which they personally confirm their firm’s compliance with particular regulatory requirements. But it’s not just the FCA as global regulators are pursuing similar agendas. BCBS 239 being a case…
Time to put Legal Contract Data Front & Centre
By Akber Datoo, Founder and Partner, D2 Legal Technology LLP Every financial institution knows the essential importance of legal contract information – it underpins everything from regulatory compliance and the management/optimisation of capital, liquidity and collateral. So why are just 16% of organisations completely satisfied with the current level of contract data accuracy? The implications…
Electronifie Provides All-to-All Platform for Corporate Bond Trading
Electronifie is challenging problems of liquidity and information leakage in the US corporate bond market with an electronic trading platform that connects buyers and sellers directly but anonymously, limits market impact and generates liquidity. The company was set up by former Goldman Sachs trader and SEC executive Amar Kuchinad in downtown New York in March…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: The Flash Crash Blame Game
As you know, we don’t often wade in on macro market structure issues, preferring instead to stick to our proverbial knitting: trading infrastructure that uses high-performance technologies to introduce some smarts. But the recent arrest of a culprit in the authorities’ long-running efforts to assign blame for the May 6, 2010, so-called Flash Crash –…
Lombard Risk REPORTER Enables Firms to Meet European and Local Liquidity Coverage Reporting Requirements
Lombard Risk Management, a leading provider of integrated regulatory reporting, collateral management and compliance solutions for the financial services industry, is pleased to announce that REPORTER is actively in use by firms for the creation and submission of regulatory liquidity reporting in line with both the European Banking Authority’s pan-European and local UK regulatory Prudential…
Final Call for Input to ESMA Study on a Messaging Protocol for Reporting under MiFIR
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is canvassing market participants’ views on messaging protocols for transaction reporting under the Markets in Financial Investments Regulation (MiFIR) in a questionnaire with a response deadline of March 6, 2015. The questionnaire is part of a study on technical formats for MiFIR commissioned by ESMA and contracted to…