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Markit Builds Out Know Your Third Party Platform
Markit is building out is Know Your Third Party (KY3P) platform with additional customers, extended functionality and a growing commitment to help users meet standards and regulatory requirements around third-party risk management. The KY3P initiative was set up by Markit, in conjunction with Barclays, HSBC and Morgan Stanley, and introduced a service for third-party management…
Intelligent Trading Summit Discusses the Potential of High Performance Technologies and the Drag of Regulation
A-Team Group’s Intelligent Trading Summit got off to a great start last week with A-Team chief content officer Andrew Delaney enjoying a fireside chat with BNP Paribas head of electronic execution strategy Kee-Meng Tan. Delaney and Tan discussed the need for speed in electronic trading, the adoption of new technologies and opportunities to look beyond…
Itiviti Details Plans Following its Formation through the Unification of Orc and CameronTec
Itiviti has set out development plans following its formation through the unification of Orc Group, a provider of electronic trading technology for listed derivatives, and CameronTec Group, a provider of FIX messaging infrastructure and connectivity. Torben Munch, CEO at Itiviti and formerly CEO at Orc, says the combined company is more than the sum of…
Regulation Review – Data Management Challenges of MiFID II
The compliance deadline for the European Union’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) may yet be pushed back a year to January 2018, but the need to tackle the data management challenges of MiFID II is immediate, whatever the European Commission’s final decision on deadlines. The regulation is much broader than the initial…
MiFID II: A Little Too Much Transparency?
Has transparency gone too far under planned revisions to the reporting requirements of the 2007 Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)? Market participants say that it will expose sensitive market activity, while creating a massive operational headache. While traders assume they will just have to deal with this pain they are in limbo until the…
DTCC Promotes Development of Distributed Ledger Technology
DTCC has thrown its weight behind distributed ledger technology as a means of modernising post-trade processes and says it is in the best position to coordinate evaluation and standardisation of the distributed ledger platform, address challenges and decide whether it is a better solution than existing technology. The company sets out its views on distributed…
AxiomSL Adds Solution for SA-CCR Compliance to Regulatory Reporting Platform
AxiomSL has added a solution that meets the requirements of Basel’s Standardised Approach for Measuring Counterparty Credit Risk Exposures (SA-CCR) to its regulatory reporting platform ahead of the rule’s compliance deadline of January 1st 2017. SA-CCR will replace the Current Exposure Method and Standardised Method calculations enshrined in the Capital Requirements Directive IV (CRD IV)…
All That’s New at A-Team Intelligent Trading Summit
With just two weeks to go until A-Team Group’s Intelligent Trading Summit in London, we are getting pretty excited about the event’s line up of speakers, who will address everything from the challenges and opportunities of regulation, including MiFID II, to the intricacies of high performance trading; the vendors that will showcase their smart trading…
Exploring Interconnected Business Relationships
By Michael Goldberg, Content Marketing Director at Dun & Bradstreet How much do you really know about the companies you do business with day in and day out? Sure, you may understand how your growth is affected by dealings with a supplier you’ve worked with for over a decade. But what about the association that…
Giving Away the Value of Reference Data
By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team Reference data is not only a foundation of data management, it is also a revenue earning commodity, particularly for exchanges and issuers of ISINs. MiFIR requires exchanges, multilateral trading facilities, organised trading facilities and systematic internalisers…