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Revista Arrives in the UK with MiFID II Record Management Solution
Revista Systems, a provider of communications convergence management (CCM) technology to the financial services community, has opened its doors in the UK. The company’s CCM solution creates a record management repository that links every transaction relating to enquiries and trades, from inception to settlement, and plays into the record retention requirements of Markets in Financial…
Vienna Stock Exchange Joins Community of Scila Surveillance Users
The Vienna Stock Exchange has agreed a five-year deal to use Scila Surveillance technology to combat insider dealing, attempted market manipulation and other market abuses. The exchange joins a roster of global exchanges including London Stock Exchange, New York Stock Exchange and the Deutsche Börse that use the Stockholm-based company’s solution. Scila Surveillance provides trading…
Recorded Webinar: Managing data, research and trading challenges in the countdown to MiFID II
MiFID II is a far-reaching regulatory directive, years in the works, but now just a few short months from taking effect on January 3. The European Union regulation will have global impact, in areas including unbundling payments for asset management research, allowing systematic internalizers latitude to handle more types of instruments, data management methods and…
Eagle Investment Systems Discusses Move to Agile Delivery Platform
Eagle Investment Systems has released the next generation of its core portfolio management software, saying the 2017 release will be its last traditional software release as it is moving to a more agile and continuous delivery model to help users keep pace with evolving regulatory demands and technology change. The company is also firming up…
Meeting Client and Counterparty Identity Requirements Under MiFID II
The January 3, 2018 compliance deadline for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) is approaching fast, requiring firms within its scope to ensure they have access to LEIs to identify all clients, counterparties and issuers they deal with. As the industry mantra goes, and in line with MiFID II and its related Markets…
Brexit and the UK Data Protection Bill: How does it impact you?
By Dennis Slattery, CEO at EDMworks On September 13, the UK government introduced in Parliament the Data Protection Bill. Its purpose is to implement a comprehensive data privacy framework for the UK in the post-Brexit environment. The scope of the bill covers: Implementing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into UK law Implementing the EU…
A RegTech Answer to Know Your Customer Compliance
Know your Customer (KYC), anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CTF) are hot topics in an increasingly hostile world, and were the subject of debate during a panel session at A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit for Capital Markets in London. Panel member Marisol Lopez, regional head of policy and standards at Thomson Reuters, shares her views…
SmartStream and RegTek.Solutions Combine to Offer Reconcile.Trade
SmartStream and RegTek.Solutions have combined products to deliver Reconcile.Trade, a service providing turnkey reconciliation solutions for global regulatory reporting. RegTek brings trade and transaction reporting software to the service, and SmartStream its reconciliations platform. Reconcile.Trade is designed to meet regulatory demand for proactive oversight of trade and transaction reporting, and supports Markets in Financial Instruments…
SmartStream RDU Fills MiFID II Gap with Systematic Internaliser Register
The SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU) is finalising a service – the Systematic Internaliser Register – that will allow systematic internalisers (SIs) within the scope of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) to publish financial instruments for which they will offer SI services and firms to identify whether counterparties are SIs and therefore…
Regulatory Data Handbook – Fifth Edition
In response to the popularity of the A-Team Regulatory Data Handbook, we have published a fifth edition outlining the essentials of regulations that are likely to have an impact on data and data management at your organisation. New to this edition is a section on RegTech, covering drivers behind the development of innovative regulatory technology,…