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MiFID II Review Shows Slow Progress and Ongoing Reporting Challenges

With the compliance deadline for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) just six months away, we called on some industry experts to share their views on how implementation is going, the toughest challenges of the regulation, and which workflows need to be prioritised to hit the 3 January 2018 deadline date. Among the…

Recorded Webinar: Approaches to managing corporate actions data

Corporate actions data is key to high quality reference data, which in turn is key to efficient and effective data management processes that support not only regulatory compliance, but also business initiatives. So, how best can corporate actions data be managed, what challenges does it present, and what solutions are available to help financial institutions…

Metamako, MayStreet Take Steps For Time-Stamped Order Ledger

FPGA networking platform provider Metamako has added market access and data analytics provider MayStreet’s services to its network, which will make it possible to develop a time-stamped order ledger, according to Ciaran Kennedy, head of US operations at Metamako. “MayStreet’s ability to decode market orders, extract our time stamp and combine the two, would allow…

General Data Protection Regulation – The Time to Implement is Now

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is broad, rigorous and challenging – and its compliance deadline is just 12 months away. So, how are organisations responding to the regulation, what progress are they making on implementation and what steps can they take to ensure compliance within the 12-month timeframe. These questions and more were answered in…

Corvil Readies Artificially Intelligent Cyber Security Service

Financial analytics service provider Corvil plans to take its new Cara virtual cybersecurity service from beta mode to fully operational at the end of June, according to David Murray, chief business development officer at the company. Cara is designed to meet security needs of electronic trading operations, to protect trading business against cyber attacks, and…

FRTB Data Management Challenges Call for an Immediate Start on Implementation

The compliance deadline of Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation may be 18 months away, but the data management challenges it presents suggest firms should start implementation early to deal with the details. Among the most pressing challenges are souring required market data, ensuring data accuracy, accessing data in a timely way and…

FRTB’s First Steps and Stages

The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation being instituted by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) in January 2019 is the de facto successor to the global banking supervision organisation’s Basel III guidelines on market risk and capital adequacy. Financial services firms are beginning to consider the demands FRTB makes on their…

Recorded Webinar: Get to grips with FRTB data and data management requirements

The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) sets out a revised market risk framework and proposals to improve capital requirements. Although the regulation’s compliance deadline is 18 months away and some details have yet to be finalised, financial institutions need to be preparing now as FRTB is complex, presents significant data management challenges and…

Opus Resolve API Searches Multiple Entity Databases in Real Time

Opus, parent of Alacra, has introduced Resolve API, an application programming interface designed to help firms search multiple entity databases in real time and speed up the integration of entity reference data with businesses processes. A couple of early adopter banks are using the solution to maintain a single and accurate view of client records…

Get Ready for the Revolutionary Requirements of the CAT

The US Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) is a broad, detailed and revolutionary regulation mandated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and due to come into force in 2018. Its data requirement surpasses that of its predecessor, the Order Audit Trail System (OATS), and presents challenges around the reporting of correct customer and account data….