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OTCX-SimCorp Partnership Takes On MiFID II Compliance
OTC derivatives multi-dealer platform OTCX’s recently announced partnership with investment management solutions provider SimCorp makes the OTCX Request For Quote (RFQ) platform more widely available – and capitalises on the platform’s value for MiFID II compliance, according to Nicolas Koechlin, CEO of OTCX. “We started the OTCX concept a little before MiFID II kicked in,”…
MiFID II Unbundling’s Silver Lining: Leveraging Streaming Big Data Analytics to Differentiate Execution Services
European MiFID II regulation’s unbundling of broker research from execution services raises the question of how execution service providers can differentiate what they offer once research is no longer part of their relationship with buy-side clients. Best-execution provisions and the performance of brokers’ platforms could become the primary differentiator. This raises a follow-up question –…
IFRS 9 Data Management: The Convergence of Finance and Risk
By Brian Sentance, CEO, Xenomorph The siloed delivery of data and technology has evolved quite naturally in most financial institutions. Whether the split lies across business units, geographic boundaries, asset classes or job functions – the complexity of most large organisations has led different teams to pursue their own unique requirements and procurement decisions regarding…
Trade Practice Surveillance: ‘I’ll Know It When I See It’
By: Victor Naroditskiy, Head of Regulatory Solutions Engineering, EMEA, OneMarketData Much of the Dodd-Frank Act, Market Abuse Regulation, MiFID II and trade surveillance regulations can be summarized as “Thou shalt not manipulate” or rather “Thou shalt not try to manipulate.” The Dodd-Frank Act, for example, defines spoofing in the following terms: It shall be unlawful…
NEX Readies MiFID II Reconciliation Solution Based on Duco Cube
NEX Regulatory Reporting has selected the Duco Cube platform to underpin a Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) reconciliation solution that is due to be ready for testing in autumn ahead of the MiFID II compliance deadline in January 2018. Going forward, the company will integrate Duco Cube into all it regulatory reporting…
GoldenSource Solves MiFID II Problem of Requesting ISINs for OTC Derivatives
GoldenSource is developing an ISIN request and enquiry solution for OTC derivatives that is designed to help firms within the scope of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) meet the transaction reporting requirement to use ISINs to identify OTC derivatives. The solution also considers concerns in the market about the speed at which…
Tuning Up Symphony
The Symphony communications service, which provides a self-contained messaging protocol for financial services firms, is finding that its openness can be a double-edged sword. Intelligent Trading Technology spoke with Barry Raskin, managing director, management consulting at Jordan & Jordan, who is currently managing the implementation of Symphony for a major firm, about how Symphony’s openness…
The Emergence of RegTech
By: JR Lowry, EMEA head of State Street Global Exchange As 2017 unfolds, we continue to be in the midst of a period of momentous change in financial services, with the evolution of technology teetering on the edge of radically reshaping the entire industry. The period of hype surrounding the term ‘big data’ has given…
Partnership Readies Regulatory Compliance Service For October US Launch
With their partnership begun in January, Scandinavian based compliance solutions company TM Group, and UK-based archiving provider Arkivum, have put their capabilities together for an end-to-end solution that can collect customer data for regulatory compliance, communicate it within units of a firm, and, lastly, save and store the data, according to officials of both companies….
Recorded Webinar: High Performance Technologies for Electronic Execution
When firms pursue higher performance in the electronic trading execution technology they use, they must consider the exchange and trading venue landscape as the context for their approach. Their approach can be accomplished in-house or with support from providers, which can be a challenging choice. This webinar will explore the factors firms consider, and also…