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Leveraging Open-Source Market Data Distribution for Innovation
Global spend on market data runs into tens of billions of dollars a year, yet despite this considerable cost to financial services firms, progress historically has been surprisingly slow to reduce the dominance of a few major incumbent suppliers who share most of this revenue. However, the scene is set for radical change of this…
Anyone for MiFID III?
By Steve Grob, Director of Group Strategy, Fidessa I was chatting with the Reg folks here at Fidessa Towers yesterday and the spectre of MiFID III came up. Before you all jump off the window ledge, there is no official notion of this yet, but when will the regulators feel that their work really is…
Data Management Summit London – Keynotes, Presentations, Panel Sessions, Round Tables and Champagne
Regulation topped the agenda at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit, although it was followed closely by issues including the transformation of data to information, data lineage, utilities, Know Your Customer ( KYC) and client onboarding, data quality, operations models, data stewardship and more! Keynotes and Presentations Introduced by Andrew Delaney, chief content officer…
Thomson Reuters Returns to the EMS Market Through Acquisition of REDI Holdings
Thomson Reuters is returning to the execution management system (EMS) space through a definitive agreement to acquire REDI Holdings and its flagship EMS that provides broker-neutral, cross-asset trade execution capabilities for the buy-side trading community. Here at ITT, we flagged the imminent acquisition of REDI by Thomson Reuters back in June and, sure enough, the…
McKay Brothers Secures Growth Funding via IMC Investment
By Zoe Schiff Microwave connectivity specialist McKay Brothers has secured funding for future growth through a capital injection from Dutch trading technology provider IMC. The investment agreement – announced September 1 – also reaffirms McKay’s continued independence under co-founders Stéphane Tyc and Bob Meade. Terms of the investment weren’t disclosed, but the companies said funds…
Establishing One True Data Voice: Extracting Long Term Benefits from MiFID II Compliance
By Boyke Baboelal, Director of Data Services at Asset Control The delay to the implementation of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) – now pushed back to January 2018 – gives institutions a chance to take a different approach. While many of the issues regarding MiFID II are still up in the air,…
Consortium with the Enemy
By Dan Barnes Capital markets are built on the bones of old consortia. Now, the revolution expected of securities markets from the adoption of distributed ledger (DL) or blockchain technology, which offers transparent and irrefutable transaction chains, is in the hands of five such groups, many with common members. Blockchain could make some industry processes…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: The Emergence of the MiFID II Ecosystem
It’s back to school week and so we found ourselves back in town, hearing all about Colt’s new MiFID II Ecosystem, based around access points offered by its Colt PrizmNet financial extranet. The premise is relatively simple: why not use PrizmNet as the conduit to a range of MiFID II-relevant partner applications? At a function…
Everything You Need to Know About MiFID II
The deadline for MiFID II compliance has been delayed to January 2018, but it remains tight with firms continuing to implement projects that satisfy the directive’s rules on issues including regulated trading platforms, algo testing, high frequency trading and surveillance. There is also work to be done on record-keeping, voice recording, and trade reconstruction. And…
New Focus on Order Routing
By Dan Barnes Order routing technology is about to become considerably more important as regulators demand greater transparency over sell-side order routing and buy-side best execution obligations. “We’ve really seen this in terms of higher depth of reporting, with clients saying ‘Give me all the data you can give me and stream it in real…