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Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: It’s a MAD MAD / MAR MAR World

Here in Canary Wharf, at least, all of the ongoing fuss about Brexit distracted us from a key regulatory milestone: the introduction on July 4 for the EU’s Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), the real-life incarnation of its earlier foray into financial crime: the Market Abuse Directive (MAD). We could all be forgiven for worrying about…

Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: The British Love a Good Farce

A week after the referendum sent us into Brexit, there remain more questions than answers on what will become of the UK and – more pertinently for us – the City of London’s trading community. No-one truly knows how this will play out. We may collectively remain in the dark for some time. Many Remainers…

A-Team Webinar Discusses Data Management Challenges of MiFID II

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) continues to pose major challenges as financial institutions build compliance programmes designed to manage huge volumes of data required by the regulation while waiting for final technical and implementation standards from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). The implications of MiFID II for data management –…

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…