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Thomson Reuters Teams Up with Kx to Deliver Superfast MiFID II Solution
Thomson Reuters has teamed up with Kx to enhance its Velocity Analytics platform and deliver ultra-high-speed processing of real time, streaming and historical data to meet the requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). The platform has been refreshed and released as Version 8, with Kx high-performance computing technology replacing high-speed processing…
Datactics RegMetrics User Monitors 10 Million Records to Ensure Data Quality
Datactics has implemented its RegMetrics data quality reporting solution at a Tier 1 global bank. The bank is using the software to monitor over 10 million underlying records, which requires hundreds of millions of data points to be processed. The bank is also building predictive analytics on top of the RegMetrics framework to monitor data…
Countdown To MiFID II: Best Execution, Brexit and Trading Infrastructure Best Practices
The events of 2016 have muddied the waters for financial institutions operating in Europe that need to figure out how planning for possible outcomes of Brexit will in turn affect compliance with European MiFID II regulation taking effect in January 2018. While it is widely recognised that firms will have to make major changes to…
ESMA Raises Alarm About Systematic Internalisers
The European Securities and Markets Authority’s chair, Steven Maijoor, has raised an issue concerning the use of systematic internalisers (SIs) to circumvent MiFID II rules, writing to European Commission director general Olivier Guersent earlier this month. In a letter dated February 1 and released to the public on February 14, Maijoor wrote that market participants…
Recorded Webinar: Driving business value from the LEI
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) has become a viable standard to help financial institutions identify business entities that are party to financial transactions and fulfil regulatory obligations for entity data. Linked to third-party, corporate hierarchy and beneficial ownership data, the potential of the LEI extends to meet not only regulatory requirements, but also the need…
MiFID II and PRIIPs: The Double Act
By: Ronan Brennan, chief technology officer, Silverfinch As at 1st January 2018, the financial services industry will be served a double whammy of regulation – Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs). While there are key differences between these two regulations, the common characteristics are worth…
FactSet Details Ultimate Goal of Servicing the Complete Portfolio Lifecycle
FactSet is delivering on its aim to serve the portfolio lifecycle through acquisition, partnership, integration and a focus on providing clients with a choice of modular solutions. Previewing the year ahead, its plans include continued integration and enhancement of acquisitions Portware, Cymba and Vermilion, support for compliance with regulations including Markets in Financial Instruments Directive…
ESMA States its Case on Distributed Ledger Technology
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has stepped into industry discussion on the pros and cons of distributed ledger – or blockchain – technology (DLT) and concluded that regulatory action is premature at this stage, but may not be in the longer term. The authority issued a report this week, The Distributed Ledger Technology…
Trade Surveillance is Challenging, But is There Also a Glint of Opportunity?
If Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) and Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) extend the breadth and depth of trade surveillance, could they also provide opportunities for firms that get it right? These issues and more were debated during a panel session at last week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit in London. Intelligent Trading…
FCA Discusses Progress on MiFID II Policy and Practicalities of Implementation
Details on final requirements and the implementation of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) will continue to be published over coming months, leading the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to conclude that serious efforts must be made towards achieving compliance on the 3 January 2018 deadline, although perfection is not expected. Stephen Hanks,…