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As Clock Ticks on SM&CR, FCA Looks to Extend Coverage to Benchmark Administrators
There is only a week to go until the final SM&CR deadline on December 9, by which time all remaining FCA-regulated firms (including asset managers, brokers and trading firms) will have to comply with the new rules – and start submitting data to the new FCA Directory. But as crunch time catches up with the…
Regulatory Data Use Cases for Privacy-Enhancing Technology
Privacy-enhancing technology (PET) is emerging as a new way for financial services firms to share and compare confidential data without compromising competitiveness or data privacy compliance. Several new use cases are emerging. Improving MiFID II reference data For example, a new industry initiative that uses advanced information security techniques looks set to enable European and…
Itiviti Partners Capital Market Solutions for Reporting to the CAT
Itiviti has partnered Capital Market Solutions (CMS), a consultancy and solutions developer, to provide a regulatory reporting solution for the SEC Rule 613 Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT). The solution is based on CMS’s Regulatory Surveillance & Monitoring System (RSMS) and is timely in following SEC issuance, after several delays, of a schedule for CAT implementation…
ABN Amro Selects UnaVista for SFTR, MiFID II Reporting
ABN AMRO Bank has selected the LSE’s UnaVista platform as its regulatory reporting provider for SFTR and MiFID II transaction reporting. ABN AMRO Bank will be using the UnaVista SFTR Accelerator, a data testing tool that allows firms to import sections of the required data to test against ESMA’s latest regulatory technical standards (RTS). The…
A-Team RegTech Summit Emphasises Urgency of Efficient, Enterprise-Wide Compliance
A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit made a triumphant return to a full house in New York last Thursday, with an excellent turnout of over 230 practitioners, regulators, start-ups and solution providers all keen to explore how the financial services industry can best leverage technology to drive innovation, cut costs and support regulatory change. Colin Ware, Global…
DTCC Delivers Beta Version of FRTB Data Service
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has launched a beta version of its FRTB Real Price Observations Data Service. The service enables the mapping of risk factors to a pool of global derivatives data to gain insight on modellability results in accordance with the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) framework. FRTB, released…
MiFID II Rules Set to Change as EU Bows to Criticism
The European Commission has suggested that it may tweak MiFID II market rules after an industry backlash criticising the regulation. Issues to be reviewed, according to the FT, include changes to the cost and distribution of market data, investor protection rules, and research for small companies. The FCA has also promised to conduct a sector-wide…
SEC Extends MiFID II Exemption Once Again, FCA Approves for UK Dealings Post-Brexit
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has once again extended its October 26, 2017 no-action letter allowing US banks to sell research directly to European fund managers under MiFID II without registering as investment advisors. Set to expire on July 3, 2020, the letter has been extended for a further three years to July 3,…
Tipping the Balance: The Growing Importance of Consolidated Surveillance
Transaction reporting may have started off as a baby elephant but as regulators increasingly focus on the importance of accurately recorded data, and the regulatory landscape becomes ever more complex, that animal is getting bigger. MiFID II and MiFIR transformed the scope of transaction reporting for financial firms, requiring them not only to guard against…
CFTE Launches RegTech Book, Online Course
The UK-based Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CFTE), a platform providing online learning for the FinTech space, has announced the launch of a targeted new online RegTech course providing a “thorough foundation of regulatory technologies” through eight hours of video content, curated readings and online assessment. The announcement was made at the London launch…