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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…
Itiviti Develops Regulatory Compliance Platform for MAR and MiFID II
Itiviti is developing a regulatory compliance solution that will be delivered as a managed service, focus first on Europe’s Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), and then on Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II). The solution is based on Itiviti’s Tbricks high performance trading platform and the OneTick ticker plant provided by Itiviti partner One Market…
Financial Machineries Extends Data Coverage of Global Trade Repository Analytics
Financial Machineries has extended coverage of foreign exchange data in its Global Trade Repository (GTR) Analytics solution, which collects OTC derivatives transaction data from trade repositories, cleanses and normalises the data, and distributes the data, including actual trade prices, to clients in less than two minutes. The additional FX data covers FX forwards and non-deliverable…
Entity Data Management Handbook – Second Edition
Entity data management is this year’s hot topic as financial firms focus on entity data to gain a better understanding of customers, improve risk management and meet regulatory compliance requirements. Data management programmes that enrich the Legal Entity Identifier with hierarchy data and links to other datasets can also add real value, including new business…
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,…