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FIX Trading Community expands into Post-Trade Processing
Trading industry standards body FIX Trading Community has announced the launch of a newset of message types to further support periodic future payment management in the post-tradespace. The introduction of a new set of FIX standard messages will allow firms to send and receive details relating to expected periodic payments, a process which is done…
Ascendant and ipushpull Partner on Digital Transformation Drive
The playing field on which financial services firms are contending is changing. Past competitive playing fields, such as alpha generation or trading strategies, are becoming less important ways for firms to generate revenue – and instead, in their bread-and-butter businesses, firms are focused on either reducing or optimising costs. And technology is playing a major…
Research Unbundling for US Asset Managers: ‘One Size Fits Nobody’
TradingTech Insight sits down with Joel Burnette, Solutions Consultant at Red Deer, to discuss the response to the research unbundling requirements of MiFID II and explore how US markets are handling the new normal. TTI: What has been the most interesting thing about the North American research market’s response to MiFID II? Joel: We have…
EMIR and MiFID Transaction Reporting Challenges Continue to Trouble Firms and Regulators
Data quality is proving to be an enduring albatross around the necks of financial institutions that must comply with EU reporting rules under MiFID II and EMIR. A recent disclosure by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) shows that matching rates remain poor for derivatives transactions reported under the European Markets and Infrastructure Regulation…
MiFID II RTS 28 Analysis Highlights Trends in Data Quality and Internalisation
A recent report from regulatory compliance platform provider Cappitech offers a window on how firms are complying with best execution requirements under Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) by slicing and dicing the MiFID II RTS 28 data that EU-based financial services firms were required to submit to EU regulators in April of…
Traiana Releases Automated Post-Trade Service for Equity Swaps Market
Traiana, a provider of infrastructure service for trade lifecycle solutions, has introduced a service that will automate post-trade lifecycle management of the equity swaps market. The Equity Swaps Lifecycle Management service normalises data reported by swap providers and conducts reconciliation and affirmation of daily valuations, payments and legal confirmations to identify any changes to underlying…
Velocimetrics Implements Enterprise-wide Data Lineage PoC at Large European Bank
Velocimetrics has implemented an enterprise-wide data lineage proof-of-concept at a major European bank. Driven by regulation BCBS 239, the bank wanted to achieve automated intra-day reconciliation, correlation and trade netting, but was already challenged to achieve T+1. The primary compliance requirement was to show completeness of reporting, although the project is already showing additional value…
Pico Reaches Agreement to Acquire Corvil, Plans Corvil-as-a-Service
Pico has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Corvil, a deal that will create a powerhouse providing managed trading technology services underpinned by sophisticated real-time performance analytics. The acquisition will combine Pico’s trading technology services with Corvil’s performance monitoring and analytics products to help clients gain greater insight into Pico’s managed electronic trading environments. Existing…
How to Deliver Algo Performance through Enhanced Market Simulation
Sell-side firms struggling to gain ground in a highly competitive and regulated trading environment, where low-latency technology is a commodity and highly performant trading strategies and algorithmic models are the only differentiators, are looking at the potential of agent-based simulation (ABS) techniques that could optimise execution system performance and allow algorithms to attract and retain…
Finastra Partners Xceptor to Automate Reconciliation
Finastra has partnered Xceptor, an intelligent automation software company, to offer new reconciliation functionality to its securities market customers. Xceptor’s out-of-the-box third-party reconciliation functionality allows Finastra’s Fusion Markets customers to automatically reconcile and validate transactions and positions data, including harder-to-handle formats, in a single solution resulting in reduced manual workloads, exceptions and breaks, and improved…