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Made to Measure: Transparency of Execution in Futures
Brokers are facing more pressure than ever before to ‘get it right’ with respect to trade execution in an increasingly complex market landscape. The EU’s MiFID II and other regulations around the globe are placing electronic execution in the spotlight. To meet the more onerous rules, brokers will need to bolster their execution infrastructures significantly….
Asset Control Adds Risk Data Management Component to AC Plus Platform
Asset Control has added a risk data management component designed to help risk managers improve risk data governance to its AC Plus data management platform. Called AC Risk Data Manager, the component uses the underlying data management platform to integrate risk data from across an organisation and allows risk managers to view and manage risk…
SIX Financial Information Adds AIFMD Data Service to Regulatory Solutions
SIX Financial Information has added a data service that supports compliance with the Alternative Investment Fund Management Directive (AIFMD) to its regulatory solutions and is preparing further services for forthcoming regulations. The company’s AIFMD service includes the data needed by alternative investment fund managers to register themselves and their managed funds as required by the…
Kx Systems Seals OEM Deal with CoreOne Technologies
By Zoe Schiff First Derivatives’ Kx Systems has forged an OEM licensing agreement with CoreOne Technologies, a data management platform. Under the arrangement, CoreOne will deploy Kx System’s kdb+ tick and time-series database to help clients process growing data volumes and perform intricate analytics. Kx Systems’ existing clients include Goldman Sachs, Fidelity Investments, Morgan Stanley,…
A-Team Webinar Debates the Data Management Challenges of Solvency II
The January 2016 deadline for Solvency II compliance is fast approaching, leaving many insurance firms, asset managers and third-party administrators with much to do as they tackle data management issues that are raised by the regulation and include huge data volumes, multiple data sources, new data types and complex data aggregation. The data management challenges…
Recorded Webinar: Solvency II
Tying in with the launch of the Solvency II Handbook at our DMS NYC event last month, this webinar discusses current data management issues with Solvency II and practical approaches to solving issues.
TraderServe Briefing Note – Flash Crash and Non-Live Testing
We all know about the Flash Crash of 2010, but rather than it being the fault of one individual, this paper presents analysis of the trading day and puts it down to a ‘perfect storm’ of four factors. And it suggests that the Flash Crash could have been avoided if MiFID II’s non-live testing requirements…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: The Flash Crash Blame Game
As you know, we don’t often wade in on macro market structure issues, preferring instead to stick to our proverbial knitting: trading infrastructure that uses high-performance technologies to introduce some smarts. But the recent arrest of a culprit in the authorities’ long-running efforts to assign blame for the May 6, 2010, so-called Flash Crash –…
Opinion: ‘Global FATCA’ Clock Starts Ticking For Fund Management Industry, Warns Linedata
By Justin Hayes, Product Manager, Linedata Services When the FATCA returns and listing deadline of 1st June ends, financial institutions must quickly turn their attention to even more expensive and burdensome regulations. Justin Hayes, product manager at Linedata, the leading international software and solutions provider, outlines the impact the OECD Common Reporting Standards, dubbed ‘Global…
SimCorp and Thomson Reuters Enhance Users’ Access to Pricing, Reference Content?
SimCorp, a leading provider of investment management solutions and services for the global financial services industry, and Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the installation of a dedicated adapter enabling portfolio managers to access DataScope Select pricing and reference data through the SimCorp Dimension software platform….