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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…

LSEG and Boat Prepare MiFID II Trade Reporting Solution

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Boat Services have joined forces to develop a MiFID II trade reporting solution, but plans may not end there with Boat suggesting the platform could be built out to deliver a utility-type service supporting a number of regulations. Initially, LSEG and Boat have signed heads of terms that will…

Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: MiFID II and the Coming Post-Trade Revolution

Word has it that ESMA is serious about its intention to publish its final guidance on MiFID II this month. With a possible (unconfirmed) publication date of September 24 doing the rounds, the market is bracing itself for a vigorously more prescriptive approach than under MiFID I, with less wiggle room for divergence from the…

Opinion: Reference Data and MiFID II/MiFIR: New ESMA Consultation

By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team Indications from ESMA are that it still intends to issue technical standards for reference data under MiFID II/MiFIR this month, so work being done now to examine the existing draft standards should pay off by enabling…

BCBS 239: An Urgent Call to Overhaul Risk Data Management

BCBS 239 is a wide ranging regulation including 14 principles spanning risk data aggregation and reporting, IT infrastructure, and data governance. Implementation can provide significant business benefits, including an enterprise-wide view of risk, but the task is not without difficulties as banks face data management challenges such as data silos, legacy systems and poor data…

Tata Consultancy Services Details a Strategic Approach to BCBS 239 Compliance

As the January 2016 deadline for compliance with BCBS 239 approaches, banks are making substantial data management changes in order to meet the regulation’s requirement for on-demand enterprise-wide risk data aggregation and reporting. The task is not easy and includes data management challenges posed by data silos, legacy systems and poor data governance practices, but…

Velocimetrics Releases First Major TipOff Upgrade Since TSA Licensing Deal

In its first major release since licensing TS Associates’ TipOff latency measurement system a year ago, London-based infrastructure monitoring specialist Velocimetrics has unveiled a new range of high performance TipOff appliances, one of which offers more than six times the storage capacity of previous appliances. The new appliance range will also underpin future releases of…

FIX Reference Data Subgroup Update: Reference Data and MiFID II/MiFIR

By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team Reference data has traditionally been treated as a ‘back-office’ function – almost as though only data that is fast-changing has relevance to a firm’s trading operations. But for more and more firms today, reference data has…