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Thomson Reuters Releases State of Regulatory Reform 2018 Report
Thomson Reuters has released a State of Regulatory Reform 2018 Special Report highlighting a rise in international divergence in regulatory reform and financial firms racing to apply digital technology. On a geographic basis, the report, now in its eighth annual edition, describes major regulations taking effect in the European Union and Asia Pacific, and the…
Thomson Reuters Data Privacy Advisor Plays into GDPR Compliance
Thomson Reuters’ introduction of Data Privacy Advisor, a research platform that brings together the company’s expertise and a Q&A feature based on IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence (AI) technology, plays well into compliance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the next data privacy milestone, which comes into force in May 2018. The platform combines Thomson Reuters’…
AxiomSL Names Roger Worthington as Head of Software-as-a-Service Function
AxiomSL has released a software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of its regulatory reporting solution, providing an alternative to on-premise deployment and leveraging its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company’s newly created production operations team overseeing the live-service support of the SaaS capability will be led by Roger Worthington as head of production operations. He will…
QQQ Capital Selects Eze Software to Streamline Investment Workflows
QQQ Capital, Singapore’s new long-term value hedge fund manager, has selected the Eze Investment Suite to automate its operations. The company will launch its QQQ Capital Feeder Fund, a $100 million fund focused on technology, education and tourism, in early 2018, using the Eze software to help streamline front-to-back investment workflows. As a fundamental long-short…
Alantra Equities Goes Live with Ullink’s High-Touch and Connectivity Solutions
Alantra Equities (formerly N+1 Equities) has gone live with Ullink’s high-touch order management system (OMS) ODISYS and NYFIX connectivity hub. The Spanish equities broker division of the global mid-market investment banking and asset management specialist Alantra, went live in advance of the January 3, 2018 Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) deadline to…
Thomson Reuters in Talks to Sell 55% Stake in Financial and Risk Business to Blackstone
Thomson Reuters’ board is expected to meet today to discuss Blackstone Group’s offer of over $16 billion for a 55% stake in the company’s financial and risk business – a move that would take the business into the private sector, allow for a restructure out of the public eye, and create a standalone financial data…
Best Practice Approaches to GDPR Compliance
Compliance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an extensive undertaking for financial services firms, but it also generates benefits including reduced risk and cost, improved data security, new business cases, and the availability of trusted information for analytics. The challenges and opportunities of GDPR were discussed during a recent A-Team Group webinar moderated by…
UBS MTF Selects Aquis Technology for MiFID II Surveillance and Reporting
UBS MTF (Multilateral Trading Facility) has selected Aquis Technology, the regtech services arm of Aquis Exchange, to provide market surveillance and RTS 27 reporting software as required by Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). UBS selected the Aquis Market Surveillance solution on the basis of its strong and comprehensive market monitoring and surveillance,…
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…
Sponsored Blog: Ullink Considers How Low-Touch and High-Touch Trading are Playing Out in a Changing Economic Environment
The global trading landscape is changing, driven by regulation, automation, cost pressure and the search for alpha. In response, sell-side firms are rebalancing their high-touch order management and low-touch direct market access (DMA) trading, and considering new approaches to achieving accurate and efficient electronic trade execution at speed and scale. On the buy-side, firms continue…