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The Role of Real-Time Surveillance in a World of Slow Enforcement
BATS Trading is fed up of being spoofed. On 18 February 2016, the alternative US exchange operator founded in 2005 by high-frequency trading guru Dave Cummings, asked US market regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to shorten the time it takes to suspend trading accounts of firms engaged in ‘spoofing’ and ‘layering’ (for BATS…
BSO Networks Builds Out Low Latency Network, Services and Solutions
BSO Network Solutions is planning to extend its low latency trading network into South America, implement its cloud-based trading infrastructure platform within exchanges, and provide a MiFID II compliant time stamping solution. While the company is building out its business with services and solutions, its career started in connectivity, when college friends Michael Ourabah and…
Swift Adds Ultimate Entity Ownership Data to Entity Plus Directory
Swift has added ultimate ownership data to entities in its Entity Plus directory and is planning to add more hierarchy data to the entity data in line with the requirements of its user community. Entity Plus was made available late last year to support financial institutions’ entity data management processes and compliance with regulations that…
A-Team Webinar Discusses Practical Considerations of MiFID II Compliance
The lack of final rules for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) is holding back implementation, but is only one of many problems faced by firms within the scope of the regulation. Other challenges include the regulation’s requirements in relation to non-equity instruments, particularly bonds, algo and high frequency trading, best execution, transparency,…
CFTC Technology Advisory Committee Takes Tough Stance on Automated Trading Regulation
The Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) reconvened this week after a 20 month intermission. On the agenda were regulation of automated trading, swap data standardisation and harmonisation, and the potential of blockchain technology. Timothy Massad, chairman of the TAC, opened discussion on the Commission’s proposed rule to address…
Recorded Webinar: MiFID II – Practical Considerations for Gainful Compliance
The EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II is set to be top of the trading technology agenda for 2016. It’s impact will be more granular, prescriptive and onerous than the original MiFID regulation, raising business and technology challenges for those financial institutions affected, which need to be resolved within a tight deadline. Listen…
ESMA Consultative Working Group Expected to Influence Outstanding MiFID II and MifIR Issues
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) call for market data experts to join its consultative working group (CWG) closes in less than two weeks time, with those selected to join the group expected to have considerable influence on regulatory market data issues during their two-year term. While ESMA is unlikely to disclose information about…
Global LEI Foundation Development Plan Adds Data Quality Management and Proposes Limited Hierarchy Data
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has set out development plans for 2016 including a recently introduced LEI data quality management programme and completion of the accreditation process for LEI issuers – but provision of much needed LEI hierarchy data remains sketchy, with the GLEIF saying only that it expects to design a process…
A-Team Webinar Discusses Outstanding Pain Points of Solvency II Compliance
The January 2016 deadline for Solvency II compliance passed without major incident, but looks like the end of the beginning with most insurance companies and asset managers making the deadline, but many continuing to work on aspects of the regulation not only to ensure compliance, but also to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs and gain…
Recorded Webinar: Solvency II – Now the pain begins. How to fix your Solvency II workarounds
Many insurance companies and asset managers scrambled to meet the January 2016 implementation deadline for Solvency II. But now the pain begins as firms look toward longer-term solutions to managing data for reporting and compliance to take place of the short term workarounds. We discuss how January went and what the outlook is for the…