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Recorded Webinar: Managing market data feeds in the post MiFID II world
The aim of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) to make market data more accessible requires market data providers to offer unbundled pre- and post-trade market data feeds that can be delivered as direct feeds or part of a consolidated service. The regulation also requires investment firms to publish details of OTC trades…
Datactics LEI Match Engine Provides Free LEI Health Check Service
Datactics is offering a free LEI health check service that helps banks and asset managers ascertain the data quality of company information they hold in a legal entity master. The release of the service could not be better timed, with the MiFID II requirement for all counterparties to transactions to have a valid LEI coming…
How to Maximise Datasets Created by MiFID II
MiFID II generates about three trillion new data points, begging the question of how financial institutions will maximise their use of new data sources created by the regulation. But how useful is the data six months into MiFID II, what challenges does it present, and will there be winners and losers among firms that can…
Derivatives Service Bureau Names Members of Technology Advisory Committee
The Association of National Numbering Agencies’ (ANNA) Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has named members of its newly formed Technology Advisory Committee (TAC). The TAC has been set up to provide guidance and recommendations to the DSB Board on technology implementation and investment to support the DSB role as a critical market infrastructure providing International Securities…
Recorded Webinar: How are you managing the need to demonstrate trade reconstruction?
Best execution under MiFID II and other current regulations presents practitioners with a daunting challenge: How does my firm provide evidence that it acted in the best interests of the client? The response necessarily requires storage of vast quantities of data from multiple sources and communications channels, for long periods of time – in the…
TORA Partners Trax to Support MiFID II Trade and Transaction Reporting
TORA has extended its provision of MiFID II solutions through a partnership with Trax, the European market data division of MarketAxess. The partnership will combine TORA’s order and execution management system (OEMS) with the Trax regulatory reporting engine to provide users with straight through processing for the trade and transaction reporting requirements of MiFID II….
GDPR Week One: Outstanding Data Management Challenges and a Quick Start Solution
The May 25, 2018 deadline for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may have come and gone, but the compliance journey is only just beginning as firms review systems built to get them over the line and plan more robust and sustainable solutions that can support a cost-efficient response to data subject access requests and accommodate…
Sheena Clark Extends Remit with Role of Managing Director at BCC Group
Sheena Clark, founder of Financial Machineries, has extended her remit by partnering BCC Group and becoming UK managing director of the company. At BCC, Clark is responsible for all global client activities around the group’s ONE Solution financial data enterprise platform and its market data cloud solutions. She will use her extensive market knowledge and…
Recorded Webinar: Just days after the GDPR deadline, how did your firm cope with go live and what still needs to be fixed?
The EU’s Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into play next week on Friday 25th May. Will your firm be compliant, struggling, or looking for a quick and effective fix? Hosted by A-Team Group just a few days after the GDPR deadline, this webinar will review how things went at go live, identify ongoing challenges…
Improving Operational Efficiency in the Data Management Process
By: Hugo Boer, Senior Product Manager, Asset Control As the financial services industry starts to harness a raft of new data sources for fast, effective and usable insights, the bottleneck for financial institutions becomes how well they really understand their data management processes. How many firms, for example, can answer the following questions: Do we…