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Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: The European Question
The marketplace is whirring with great minds turning their attention to what the latest ESMA rules for MiFID II actually mean. We’re not sure anyone has completely figured that out yet, but we’ll be watching closely as we’re embroiled in a number of projects that are impacted to various degrees by the latest ESMA utterances,…
ESMA has Published Its Technical Standards for MiFIR!
By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team At last the document has arrived – you can find it on the ESMA web site at http://tinyurl.com/nh5spx7. And there are changes in there that are very significant to anyone involved in reference data, in compliance,…
Final ESMA Report on MiFID II and MiFIR Technical Standards Recommends XML and ISO 20022 for Regulatory Data Reporting
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final report on Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) for Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR). The report covers many aspects of the directive and regulation, and concludes debate over market data reporting, recommending that transaction and instrument reference…
Getting to Grips with the Challenge of Beneficial Ownership
Understanding beneficial ownership of an entity – a corporation or a fund – has emerged as a key element of many financial institutions’ compliance activities. A raft of relatively new regulations – ranging from the US Dodd-Frank Act through to Russian sanctions – require firms to understand who owns the entities they do business with,…
A-Team Data Management Summit: Challenges and Opportunities of Regulation
Regulatory compliance deadlines in January 2016 and 2017 are a challenge for data managers, but also an opportunity to develop data management strategies that deliver business benefits. A panel session at next week’s A-Team Data Management Summit in London will debate these issues and look at how firms are getting ready to meet the deadlines….
Opinion: Which standards for regulating the future?
By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team This week, ESMA is expected to issue the final technical standards for MiFID II and MiFIR that it will propose to the European Commission for approval. The standards can then be implemented by investment firms in…
A-Team Webinar Discusses Outstanding Challenges in the Countdown to Solvency II Compliance
The January 1, 2016 compliance deadline for Solvency II is just months away, but not all insurers and asset managers are sure they will make the date and some data management problems are expected to remain unresolved as the regulation takes effect. The countdown to compliance was discussed during a recent A-Team Group webinar entitled…
Recorded Webinar: How to Create an Agile Trading System
High speed, low latency trading connectivity is no longer enough to differentiate you from your competitors – so how do you add value to your trading systems? How can you create a trading platform that is: Flexible enough to accommodate the transaction lifecycle? Powerful enough to deliver the analytics for better informed trading decisions? Fast…
Recorded Webinar: Solvency II – The Final Data Management Challenges
With the Jan 2016 deadline fast approaching, what should you be doing in the last quarter of this year to make sure your data management operations are ready?
Solvency II How Insurers, Asset Managers and Asset Servicers are Meeting the Data Challenge
The EU’s Solvency II regulation is due to come into effect in January 2016. Aimed at ensuring the insurance industry fully understands the risks associated with its investments, the regulation places great emphasis on access to highly granular valuations and risk information. For most insurers, this is the first time they have been required to…