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TP ICAP Partners Credit Benchmark to Enhance Credit Risk Capabilities
TP ICAP’s data and analytics division has partnered Credit Benchmark to create a credit proxy solution combining market pricing with Credit Benchmark ratings. Customers will benefit from enhanced price discovery, xVA, trading and risk management capabilities. TP ICAP will provide Credit Benchmark with data from its Tullett Prebon Information business for research into the relationship…
FlexTrade Systems Integrates ipushpull with FlexNOW to Provide Real-Time Data Sharing
FlexTrade Systems has integrated ipushpull (iPP), a real-time interoperability platform, with its FlexNOW execution management system. The arrangement will provide FlexNOW users with access to iPP’s live data sharing and workflow automation between desktop applications, messaging platforms, in-house systems and cloud services. iPP’s analytics module will allow FlexNOW’s primarily hedge fund and mini-prime clients to…
Towards Sustainable MiFID II Compliance
With MiFID II nine months into implementation since go live in Janaury 2018 and the systematic internaliser (SI) regime having become mandatory for all firms within its scope in early September, a panel of regulatory experts at A-Team Group’s recent RegTech Summit in London reviewed how the regulation is playing out and discussed how to…
A-Team Group RegTech Summit Reviews the First Nine Months of MiFID II
MiFID II was designed to increase market transparency and improve investor protection. So, how is it doing nine months in, what challenges remain – and there are plenty, and what are the positive outcomes for firms within its scope and the industry as a whole? You can find out the answers to these questions and…
AxiomSL Expands European Presence through SKS Partnership
AxiomSL has partnered Germany’s SKS Unternehmensberatung in a move set to increase its influence in continental Europe. AxiomSL’s regulatory reporting platform is already compliant with both national and international requirements in Germany, and its collaboration with SKS, a provider of regulatory, risk and compliance management systems, is expected to enhance its market position. The firm…
SmartStream RDU Presents RegTech Summit Keynote on MiFID II and the SI Regime
Peter Moss, CEO of the SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU), dived into the detail of systematic internalisation under Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) during a keynote presentation at A-Team Group’s recent RegTech Summit in London. He noted growing numbers of systematic internalisers (SIs) registered with the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)…
The Devil is in The Data: The Role of FMIs in Providing Data Services and the Importance of a Best Practice Approach
By Tim Lind, Managing Director, Data Services at DTCC In recent years, it has been claimed that data has eclipsed oil as the world’s most valuable resource. Financial market infrastructures (FMIs) are on a constant search for ‘new oil’ and the value of data is certainly on the list of new services they are developing….
A Dive into the Detail of the Systematic Internaliser Regime Under MiFID II
The requirements of the systematic internaliser (SI) regime under Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) became mandatory on September 1, 2018, meaning firms within the scope of the regulation must become SIs when they trade certain volumes in particular instruments, as set out by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). A month…
Navigating the Emerging SI Landscape
In our final A-Team Group Podcast from the recent MiFID 2 briefing entitled ‘Interacting with the New Market Structure’, held on September 18th in the City of London, expert market practitioners including Simon Dove, Head of Liquidity Management at Tower Research Capital Europe; Jonathan Finney, Director of European Business Development at Citadel Securities; Peter Moss,…
Data Management Practitioners Take Increasingly Dynamic Approach to Regulatory Compliance
Regulatory compliance continues to be a burden for data management practitioners working in capital markets, but approaches are changing as firms move towards managing reference data once for as many regulations as possible, adopt a utility model to ease the burden, or look to regtech solutions to support reporting. The ongoing challenges of compliance were…