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Cutting Through the Noise: How to Identify True Outsourced Trading
By Andrew Walton, Head of European Business at Tourmaline Partners. More than 18 months into the era of MiFID II, it is now clear how this key piece of European regulation has fundamentally changed the business models of both brokers and investment firms. Buy-side firms in particular are required to have greater systems and controls…
US SEC Seeks Fairer Market Data Access, Deeper Data in SIP Feeds
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is calling for reforms that would level the playing field for access to market data. In a bid to narrow the differential between those with access to high-cost data feeds that contain a greater depth of information, and other investors in the marketplace, the SEC proposals would subject…
IOSCO Calls for Parity on Crypto-Asset Trading Platform Scrutiny
Crypto-asset trading platforms (CTPs) such should be subject to the same kinds of standards that other types of trading platforms are, according to a new report from the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). The report – Issues, Risks and Regulatory Considerations Relating to Crypto-Asset Trading Platforms – suggests that regulators look at: access to…
IHS Markit Boosts TCA Service Down Under with Yieldbroker
IHS Markit is enriching the fixed income analytics within its Trade Cost Analysis (TCA) service by adding transaction data from the Yieldbroker electronic trading platform for Australian and New Zealand debt securities and derivatives. The move seeks to bolster IHS Markit’s best execution capabilities for the fixed income marketplace, for which sourcing robust data sets…
Deutsche Bank Partners Xceptor at Indonesian Corporate Bank
Deutsche Bank’s corporate bank and Xceptor have partnered to automate the bank’s core processes in Indonesia as part of a broader optimisation and digitisation strategy. Xceptor provides AI-enabled data centric automation software to drive productivity and operational efficiency. As part of this partnership, Xceptor will help to automate reconciliations with multiple external parties for the…
SteelEye Outlines International Expansion and Product Development Plans Following Series A funding of $10 Million
SteelEye will extend its presence in Europe, evolve its regulatory compliance and data analytics products, and expand its team after raising $10 million of Series A funding in a round led by Eight Roads, the proprietary investment firm backed by Fidelity, and including its existing investor Illuminate Financial. Looking two years out, the company is…
VendEx Addresses Regulatory Compliance with VReg Module
VendEx Solutions continued on its quest to break the mould in the market data inventory systems space with last month’s launch of VReg, a new module that gives consumers of market data an overview of the data suppliers they use to meet their regulatory obligations. The addition is the latest step in the San Francisco…
JP Morgan Invests in Fund Administration Specialist Arcesium
New York-based investment management technology and post-trade services provider Arcesium has won strategic funding from JP Morgan. Arcesium was originally launched by investment and technology giant D E Shaw Group in 2015 on a platform developed for its own post-trade activities, with backing from Blackstone, which became one of its first clients. Its Securities Services…
Join the Debate on Cost and Accessibility of Market Data at A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit
Is your firm challenged by the high costs of market data and redistribution charges? Does it face barriers to accessing market data in a timely fashion? And is it looking for ways to resolve these problems? If the answer to any of these questions is ‘yes’, join A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit in London on 25th…
New BMLL CEO Humphrey Outlines ‘Scale-Up Phase’ Post-$25 Million Funding
Fresh from a January funding round that brings total financing raised to $25 million, UK trading analytics specialist BMLL Technologies has named industry veteran Paul Humphrey to take the helm as CEO. Humphrey says the company is now in “scale-up phase” as it sets about its mission to derive value from data hidden within market…