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Financial Institutions Regroup to Consider Outcomes of Brexit
After the shock of last week’s ‘leave’ vote in the European Union referendum and a weekend to reflect on the outcome, financial institutions across the UK are considering big picture scenarios that could result from Brexit and putting together governance frameworks designed to help them manage events as they unfold. While there is no certainty…
Recorded Webinar: Implications of MiFID II for Data Management
MiFID II is shaping up to be one of the biggest regulations to impact the financial industry. While much of the regulation focuses on trading, there are many implications for data management. The webinar will explore issues effecting data management, including extended coverage of instruments and trading venues, new data fields, the mandate to use…
New Gold Dream: A Consolidated Tape for European Bond Prices
Everybody wants it, somebody should build it, anybody could build it, yet nobody wants to pay for it. The story of Europe’s consolidated price tape for equities, first mooted under the original 2007 Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) is a logical conundrum, in part because regulators are predetermining market structure where no commercial imperative…
Silverfinch Extends Data Model to Deliver PRIIPs KID Compliance Solution
Silverfinch has extended the data distribution utility it developed for the look-through element of Solvency II to provide a data exchange capability that meets the requirements of the forthcoming Key Information Document (KID) regulation for Packaged Retail Investment and Insurance Products (PRIIPs). The regulation comes into force on January 1st 2017 and requires PRIIPs manufacturers…
SAP and AxiomSL Combine SAP HANA with AxiomSL Regulatory Reporting Platform
SAP and AxiomSL have integrated the SAP HANA in-memory database and AxiomSL regulatory reporting platform to deliver a solution that is fast to implement and lowers the cost of regulatory reporting for SAP HANA users. The integration is AxiomSL’s first with another vendor product and is part of a strategic move to integrate the company’s…
OFR Runs Challenge Series to Solve Problem of Matching Entity Identifiers
The Office of Financial Research (OFR) is running a series of challenges designed to develop automated technologies that could solve the problem of matching entity identifiers from different sources and, in particular, make it easier to link entity identifiers from diverse sources to the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI). Results of the first challenge will be…
DTCC Data Products Adds Liquidity Coverage Ratio Data Service
DTCC has developed a Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) Data Service that will be available later this month and delivered as a data-as-a-service solution by DTCC Data Products, a centralised market data provisioning service set up a year ago to allow faster and smarter access to DTCC data. The LCR Data Service is designed to help…
The IDX Roadshow Rolls into Town
June in London means it’s time for IDX – the International Derivatives Expo, the Futures Industry Association’s conference focusing on regulatory and technology issues facing that particular segment of the marketplace. We managed to stop by and say hi to some friends and clients, and savour the atmosphere of this microcosm of the Chicago market….
Intelligent Trading Summit Discusses Aspects of Optimal Performance
Regulation, optimal execution, intelligent trading solutions, high performance technologies and emerging capabilities including machine learning, sentiment analysis and predictive analytics were at the top of the agenda at A-Team Group’s Intelligent Trading Summit in New York City. Setting the scene for the summit, keynotes from Kevin O’Hara, senior advisor to the National Stock Exchange, and…
A-Team Data Management Summit Outlines Elements of Optimal Data Management
Organising for optimal data management, transformation challenges, operational models, data quality, emerging technologies, data governance and, of course, regulation were top agenda items at A-Team Group’s recent Data Management Summit in New York City. The first keynote speaker, David Luria, vice president, front office data intelligence programs at T. Rowe Price, set the scene for…