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A-Team Group Names Winners of RegTech Awards 2018
The winners of A-Team Group’s RegTech Awards 2018 have been revealed, with winning solution and service providers named across categories from best data management solution for regulatory compliance to best reference data for regulatory compliance, best trade repository for regulatory disclosure, best vendor solution for data governance, and best compliance as a service solution. As…
MiFID II Revisited
It is no secret that Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) remains a work in process, despite go live back in January. But what still needs to be done, how easy will it be, and how can firms work towards accruing the benefits of compliance? A recent A-Team Group webinar, MiFID II Revisited,…
New Blood for Fenergo
Fenergo pulled off a coup today with the announcement of industry stalwart Conor Coughlan as its new Global Head of Marketing – a strategic poach from Thomson Reuters, where Coughlan has headed the marketing function for the risk division for the last two years. An award-winning B2B financial services marketer, Coughlan is a leading RegTech…
Directory of MiFID II Electronic Trading Venues 2018
The inaugural edition of A-Team Group’s Directory of MiFID II Electronic Trading Venues 2018 offers a guide to the European landscape resulting from new market structure introduced by the January 3, 2018 implementation of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). The directory provides detailed profiles of more than 70 venue operators and their…
CAT Changes Could Cut Level of Client Data Collection and Shift Reporting Deadline
Changes to the controversial Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) – which will record all equities and options traded in the US – have been put forward in a bid to tackle serious concerns in the industry about the level of sensitive client data the CAT will collect. The CAT Operating Committee approved a different approach to…
Colt Partners NPL to Deliver Time Service Suited to MiFID II
Colt Technology Services is offering financial firms using its colocation services a timestamping capability that more than meets the requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). The company has partnered with the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL) to deliver precise timing capabilities to firms using its colocation services in Equinix data centres…
HPR Extends Capital Markets Infrastructure Technology into Europe
US based capital markets infrastructure technology provider Hyannis Port Research (HPR) has made its first foray into Europe with a leading global investment bank that has gone live with its Riskbot market access platform in EMEA. The platform provides trading clients with sub-microsecond direct market access to Cboe Europe, Euronext, LSE, Turquoise and Xetra. Riskbot…
Silwood Expands Series of GDPR Starter Packs for Major Application Packages
Silwood Technology, a vendor of metadata discovery software, has expanded its series of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Starter Packs for major application packages. Starter Packs for Oracle E-Business Suite and Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 join existing solutions for SAP, JD Edwards and Siebel that are designed to help users quickly and simply identify the…
TORA Introduces AlgoWheel to Help Firms Create Systematic Best Ex Processes
TORA has introduced an AI-powered AlgoWheel designed to help firms create scalable and systematic best execution processes in line with the requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). The TORA AlgoWheel is a quantitative execution strategy optimiser that uses AI technology to automate low-touch order execution or provide real-time market intelligence for…
MiFID II Data Management: Where Are We Now?
Winston Churchill probably doesn’t spring to mind when considering Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), but his famous Battle of El Alamein description – “This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning” – fits the new EU regulation…