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Thomson Reuters Lays Off Staff as Reorganisation Cuts 2,000 Jobs
Thomson Reuters is cutting 2,000 jobs as part of a reorganisation that kicked in this week with staff layoffs. Thomson Reuters announced the job cuts, 4% of its workforce of about 48,000 people globally, as it reported a slight dip in third quarter profit and flat revenue. The cuts will be made across 39 countries…
Integration and Development Capabilities Sell Vontobel On Horizon Platform
Zurich-based Vontobel, which has CHF 187 billion in assets under management, chose Horizon Software’s Horizon Platform for Automated Trading (HPAT) for its electronic trade execution because of the platform’s ability to develop algorithms, handle reporting, meet compliance requirements and integrate in a timely and low-risk manner with the firm’s trading environment, according to Sylvain Thieullent,…
Object Trading Adapts To Singapore Exchange’s Titan Platform
Multi-asset trading infrastructure provider Object Trading has adjusted its services to conform to Titan, the newly launched trading platform of the Singapore Exchange (SGX). Object Trading’s Direct Market Access (DMA) platform will continue to handle market data, order execution and pre-trade risk constraints for its clients who trade on SGX. Object Trading supports SGX’s QuestDT…
Recorded Webinar: Meeting the high stakes challenge of effective sanctions data monitoring
Identifying securities related to a sanctioned domicile or company is a straightforward concept, but in practice, it is a far more challenging task for compliance professionals. Receiving a list of sanctions isn’t enough. In order to accurately define and maintain your ‘do not trade’ list, you need to identify all the securities related to each…
PRIIPs Compliance Deadline Postponed to January 2018
The European Commission has postponed the application date of Packaged Retail and Insurance based Investment Products (PRIIPs) regulation by a year, moving the date to 1 January 2018 and aligning compliance with that of Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II). The Commission’s decision to postpone PRIIPs and the creation of associated Key Information Documents…
LumRisk Scales with Markit EDM Managed Service
LumRisk, a Geneva based risk aggregating service provider, has gone live with the managed service version of Markit EDM. The enterprise data management solution improves LumRisk’s hedge fund and alternative risk premia (ARP) platform, allowing data analysis and risk monitoring services to be scaled up. LumRisk considered several enterprise data management solutions before selecting Markit…
The CAT Controversy
By Kelvin To, founder and president of Data Boiler Technologies AutoCAD has been the de facto computer-aided design (CAD) program for engineers for so long that it’s like an acronym for anything that is professionally engineered, designed and created. In capital markets, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted rule 613 to establish the…
Best Practice Approaches to the Data Management Challenges of MiFID II
The data management challenges of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) are dominated by sourcing required data and managing multiple identifiers, but despite these difficulties, financial institutions expect to gain significant operational and business benefits from compliance. Meeting the data management challenges of MiFID II was the subject of an A-Team Group webinar…
Recorded Webinar: Meeting the data management challenges of MiFID II
The compliance deadline for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) has been pushed back a year to January 2018, giving financial institutions within its scope an opportunity to take a strategic rather than tactical approach to implementation. But whatever the approach, the scale of the regulation is large and the data management challenge…
GoldenSource Discusses the Pitfalls and Potential of Entity Data Management
Entity data is a fundamental building block of many systems, but all too often large financial institutions fail to manage the data strategically and incur negative customer reactions, increased costs and regulatory reporting errors. The solution to these problems is an enterprise-wide approach to entity data secured by strong data governance. The problems and potential…