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FIX Trading Community Releases Final Guidance on Best Execution Reporting
The FIX Trading Community has issued the final release of its Recommended Practices for Best Execution Reporting as required under Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) 27 and 28. The document provides guidance on how to populate reports required under RTS 27 and 28 with appropriate data in a…
John Randles Takes the Lead at Siren
After leaving the post of CEO at Bloomberg PolarLake in August 2017, John Randles has emerged as CEO of Siren, a Dublin-based start-up dedicated to the development of a data intelligence platform that combines search, business intelligence, graphic and knowledge representation to advance how financial services firms, among others, address complex questions. The company’s platform…
ABN Amro Clearing Bank Distributes Fidessa Derivatives EMS
ABN Amro Clearing Bank has extended its relationship with Fidessa to allow the clearer to distribute the software vendor’s derivatives execution management system (EMS). This follows ABN Amro’s 2016 harmonisation of its global multi-asset market access by replacing numerous vendor and in-house systems with Fidessa’s XTP technology, and means the clearer can now present clients…
RJO’Brien’s Bradley Giemza Discusses Regulation, RegTech and Cool Start-Ups
A-Team Group’s hugely successful RegTech Summit for Capital Markets in London is on its way to New York, where keynote speakers will include Bradley Giemza, chief risk officer at RJO’Brien. Ahead of the event on Thursday November 16, 2017, we caught up with Giemza to find out his views on RegTech and its potential. Q:…
Recorded Webinar: How to get entity, hierarchy and relationship data right
The demand for entity, hierarchy and relationship data continues to rise, not only in response to regulatory requirements, but also as a result of greater business understanding of the value of the data to identify counterparties, risk and potential opportunity. The webinar will discuss the requirement for entity, hierarchy and relationship data, how to source…
Revista Arrives in the UK with MiFID II Record Management Solution
Revista Systems, a provider of communications convergence management (CCM) technology to the financial services community, has opened its doors in the UK. The company’s CCM solution creates a record management repository that links every transaction relating to enquiries and trades, from inception to settlement, and plays into the record retention requirements of Markets in Financial…
A-Team Group RegTech Summit for Capital Markets a Storming Success
A-Team Group’s inaugural RegTech Summit for Capital Markets in London attracted registrations from over 400 capital markets participants, included leading speakers in the regtech space and showcased start-up regtechs with automated solutions to regulatory compliance challenges. The event also hosted towards 20 key RegTech sponsors. The conference was hosted by Andrew Delaney, President and Chief…
Recorded Webinar: Managing data, research and trading challenges in the countdown to MiFID II
MiFID II is a far-reaching regulatory directive, years in the works, but now just a few short months from taking effect on January 3. The European Union regulation will have global impact, in areas including unbundling payments for asset management research, allowing systematic internalizers latitude to handle more types of instruments, data management methods and…
Eagle Investment Systems Discusses Move to Agile Delivery Platform
Eagle Investment Systems has released the next generation of its core portfolio management software, saying the 2017 release will be its last traditional software release as it is moving to a more agile and continuous delivery model to help users keep pace with evolving regulatory demands and technology change. The company is also firming up…
Brexit and the UK Data Protection Bill: How does it impact you?
By Dennis Slattery, CEO at EDMworks On September 13, the UK government introduced in Parliament the Data Protection Bill. Its purpose is to implement a comprehensive data privacy framework for the UK in the post-Brexit environment. The scope of the bill covers: Implementing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into UK law Implementing the EU…