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State of Data Governance: Making Data Management Programmes Operational
By Gavin Kaimowitz, Global Data Practice Lead at Sapient Global Markets Global financial institutions are coming to the realisation that the business processes and operational models they have relied on in the past won’t necessarily help them succeed in the current increasingly regulated environment. That’s not to mention the struggle to overcome lower margins and…
A-Team Webinar Discusses Approaches to Best Execution under MiFID II
The best execution requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) present several challenges including the need to manage more data, time-stamp and sequence messages, and report in line with the regulation’s compliance mandate. Financial institutions that implemented the first iteration of MiFID after it came into force in 2007 may have a…
Oslo Børs Extends Stay in London Through Partnership with London Stock Exchange
Oslo Børs has evaluated its technology partnership with London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), which hosts the Norwegian exchange’s equity, fixed income and derivatives markets, and decided to extend the relationship for five years effective from April 2017. Oslo Børs is one of over 40 exchanges and venues that use LSEG’s Millennium Exchange platform, but unlike…
Asset Control Integrates Matlab with AC Plus Data Management Platform
Asset Control has integrated its AC Plus data management platform with MathWorks’ Matlab financial analytics language to bring data and financial models closer together and deliver more robust calculation and validation of risk factor and valuations data. The integration recognises the use of Matlab by many Asset Control customers and overcomes the need to move…
Recorded Webinar: Adding Intelligence to Electronic Execution for Best Execution Under MiFID II
MiFID II’s provisions for best execution promise to be more rigorous than its predecessor’s. They also will be applied to a host of relatively illiquid and potentially more complex asset classes. Compliance will be challenging. This webinar looks at the emerging requirement for truly smart order routing under MiFID II’s best execution rules: Approaches to…
Interactive Data Extends North American Liquidity Indicators Service to Europe
Interactive Data has extended its North American Liquidity Indicators Service to cover European and Asia-Pacific corporate and sovereign securities. It has also expanded coverage of the service by adding TBA-eligible mortgage-backed securities pass-throughs and agency debentures to US corporates, Latin American corporates and municipal bonds. The Liquidity Indicators Service was introduced to the US market…
Markit Integrates EDM with VistaOne Data Warehouse and vReporter
Markit has completed the integration of VistaOne and vReporter with its enterprise data management (EDM) software and is preparing to bring a combined EDM, data warehouse and reporting solution to market. The company acquired the VistaOne data warehouse and reporting solution as part of its acquisition of CoreOne Technologies in August 2015. It also acquired…
Corvil Extends Data Capture Platform to Deliver Non-Intrusive MiFID II Solution
Corvil has extended its network data capture and analytics platform to deliver a Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) compliance solution that is applied as an overlay to existing infrastructure and integrates a lightweight agent that collects time-stamped events from software applications. The solution uses an independent system to gather precision data needed…
SIX Financial Information Develops Utility for Compliance with Investor Protection Rules
SIX Financial Information is developing a document management utility designed to help financial institutions comply with investor protection rules issued by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and due to take effect on January 1st 2017. The rules are also an element of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), a European regulation…
Nice Actimize Moves into Middle Tier Market with Cloud Based AML Solution
Nice Actimize is moving into the mid-sized financial institutions market with a cloud platform that will initially provide an anti-money laundering (AML) software-as-a-service solution and later a complete suite of financial crime applications. The AML solution, Actimize AML Essentials, is a packaged and variant version of the company’s AML enterprise software. It covers suspicious activity…