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Big News at Thomson Reuters with Acquisitions of Avox and Clarient

We’ve heard rumblings in the market about a potential sale of Avox and now, ending months of speculation, Thomson Reuters signing not only a definitive agreement to acquire DTCC’s Avox, a supplier of legal entity data, but also an agreement to acquire Clarient, the industry-backed Know Your Customer (KYC) and client reference data platform that…

OFR says 500,000 LEIs are Not Enough to Achieve Expected Benefits

The Office of Financial Research (OFR) has called for collective action on global implementation of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) and named US regulators as the drag that is slowing down adoption of the identifier. The OFR reviews development of the Global LEI System (GLEIS) in a briefing document titled Collective Action: Toward Solving a…

Advanced Logic Analytics Delivers OneLogic Big Data Analytics Platform

Advanced Logic Analytics (ALA), a start-up in the big data space, has released OneLogic, an analytics platform designed to process and analyse structured and unstructured big data in real time. Use cases for the platform include predictive, behavioural and emotional analytics for better-informed trading decisions, and data management for regulatory compliance. As the company makes…

Truphone Provides Solace For Industry BlackBerry Users

The business world, and particularly the financial industry with its stricter security needs to protect trading communications, has not been as quick as consumers to give up on BlackBerry, but has also needed a way to retain SMS text message communications. Last week’s launch by mobile network and mobile recording provider Truphone of its SMS…

Advanced Logic Analytics Discusses Proposals for Compliance and Trading

Advanced Logic Analytics (ALA) plans to meet the data management requirements of regulatory compliance and the trading need for predictive, behavioural and emotional analytics with OneLogic, an analytics platform designed to process and analyse structured and unstructured data big data in real time. We caught up with ALA managing director, Nick Ellis, just a week…

Proving Best Execution Depends On Collecting More Data

The best way to accomplish all the aspects of ensuring best execution of trades in a manner compliant with Europe’s MiFID II regulation taking effect next year is by gathering all data, market history and relevant information in one place, says Dermot Harriss, senior vice president at OneMarketData, who spoke in a January 26 webinar,…

MiFID II Best Execution Presents Challenges and Opportunities

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) raises the bar on best execution, presenting significant data management challenges, but also opportunities to use best execution data to gain competitive edge. Where MiFID required investment managers to show they had taken ‘reasonable’ steps to demonstrate best execution, MiFID II requires ‘sufficient’ steps, suggesting a more…

Recorded Webinar: MiFID II: Data for best execution

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) strengthens the best execution requirement embedded in MiFID by expanding disclosure. Among the directive’s requirements are provisions to ensure investment firms provide appropriate information to clients on their order execution policy and publish a list of the top five execution venues used in the previous year for…

Silverfinch Builds Data Aggregation Templates into PRIIPS Solution

Silverfinch is building templates designed to aggregate and distribute data required by Packaged Retail Investment and Insurance Products (PRIIPs) regulation for Key Information Documents (KIDs) into its PRIIPs compliance engine. The company plans to finalise the solution following the release of Level 2 Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) that could be published by the European Commission…

Privitar Provides Products to Meet Data Privacy by Design Requirements of GDPR

Privitar is meeting the privacy by design and default principles of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with innovative data privacy solutions that play not only into regulatory compliance, but also into gaining greater value from data, particularly big data. The company’s approach to GDPR data privacy requirements is based on risk mitigation provided by two…