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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…

Opinion: How Machine Learning Solves Client Onboarding, by Adam Devine, WorkFusion

Brute force can’t solve onboarding. Machine learning can. Here’s how. Throwing headcount at the ubiquitous client onboarding problem hasn’t worked. It’s still a mess. Offshoring just sweeps the mess under the rug, and the expression, “misery loves company” is a good way of describing the impact of utility plays. Every onboarding solution on the market…

Bloomberg Responds to EMIR and MifID II Consultations With Call for Inclusion of FIGI in Reporting

Bloomberg has responded to a European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) consultation on European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) suggesting the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI), formerly the Bloomberg Global Identifier (BBGID), should be used as an instrument identifier for reporting under the regulation. While the ESMA consultation opened on November 10, 2014 and closes today,…

EDM Council Plans January Release of Version 1.0 of its Data Management Capability Model

The Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council will release version 1.0 of its Data Management Capability Model (DCAM) on January 15, 2015. The model defines the scope of capabilities needed to establish, enable and sustain a mature data management discipline, including strategy, organisational structure, technology architecture and operational best practices. The council’s DCAM model builds on…

TMX Atrium Adopts NPL Time to Offer Accurate Time Stamp Service

TMX Atrium has signed an agreement with the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) to distribute NPL Time, a certified and precise time signal that is directly traceable to Coordinated Universal Time and can be used by TMX Atrium customers for regulatory compliance and audit purposes. TMX Atrium’s adoption of the NPL Time service is designed…

A-Team Group Webinar Describes a Buy-and-Build Approach to Developing Agile Trading Systems

Agile trading systems are key to market differentiation, but rather than following the well-trodden path of building proprietary systems, firms are beginning to favour a buy-and-build approach that not only meets immediate needs, but also accommodates rapid development to meet evolving trading and customer requirements. Hosting an A-Team Group webinar entitled How to Create an…