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Cost and Compliance Drive Increasing Adoption of Centralised Customer Data Solutions
Banks have bought into the principle of centralising data to support Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance and deliver a better customer experience, and are now turning principle into practice. The approaches they are taking to centralise data, the solutions they are implementing and the benefits they expect to accrue will be discussed at this week’s…
ESMA has Published Its Technical Standards for MiFIR!
By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team At last the document has arrived – you can find it on the ESMA web site at http://tinyurl.com/nh5spx7. And there are changes in there that are very significant to anyone involved in reference data, in compliance,…
Final ESMA Report on MiFID II and MiFIR Technical Standards Recommends XML and ISO 20022 for Regulatory Data Reporting
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final report on Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) for Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR). The report covers many aspects of the directive and regulation, and concludes debate over market data reporting, recommending that transaction and instrument reference…
A-Team Data Management Summit: The Value of Data
As the volume of data held by financial institutions continues to rise at an alarming rate, many firms are considering how best to manage the data with regard to what it is needed for and how it can be used to add value to the business. A panel session at next week’s A-Team Data Management…
A-Team Data Management Summit: Challenges and Opportunities of Regulation
Regulatory compliance deadlines in January 2016 and 2017 are a challenge for data managers, but also an opportunity to develop data management strategies that deliver business benefits. A panel session at next week’s A-Team Data Management Summit in London will debate these issues and look at how firms are getting ready to meet the deadlines….
The Single, Simple Goal of Every Data Operation (and the Three Roadblocks to Achieving It)
By Adam Devine, VP Product Marketing, WorkFusion To compete with rivals, comply with regulations and please customers, financial institutions must achieve one solitary operational goal: better quality data through smarter, more agile and transparent processes that generate end-to-end audit trails while simultaneously using fewer human resources, rationalising technology point solutions and increasing automation without burdening…
Opinion: Which standards for regulating the future?
By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team This week, ESMA is expected to issue the final technical standards for MiFID II and MiFIR that it will propose to the European Commission for approval. The standards can then be implemented by investment firms in…
A-Team Webinar Discusses Outstanding Challenges in the Countdown to Solvency II Compliance
The January 1, 2016 compliance deadline for Solvency II is just months away, but not all insurers and asset managers are sure they will make the date and some data management problems are expected to remain unresolved as the regulation takes effect. The countdown to compliance was discussed during a recent A-Team Group webinar entitled…
LSEG and Boat Prepare MiFID II Trade Reporting Solution
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Boat Services have joined forces to develop a MiFID II trade reporting solution, but plans may not end there with Boat suggesting the platform could be built out to deliver a utility-type service supporting a number of regulations. Initially, LSEG and Boat have signed heads of terms that will…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: MiFID II and the Coming Post-Trade Revolution
Word has it that ESMA is serious about its intention to publish its final guidance on MiFID II this month. With a possible (unconfirmed) publication date of September 24 doing the rounds, the market is bracing itself for a vigorously more prescriptive approach than under MiFID I, with less wiggle room for divergence from the…