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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…
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…
QuantHouse Partners NPL to Meet MiFID II Demands for Precise Trade Timing
QuantHouse has partnered with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK’s national measurement institute, to offer its clients the NPLTime traceable timestamping service. The service will enable users to evidence the exact moment a trade was executed to within 1 microsecond. This plays well into Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), which requires…
A-Team Group Tags Some Top RegTech Start-Ups
Whether you define RegTech as the application of technological innovation to reduce the burden of regulatory obligations, or the digitisation of regulatory compliance processes, it is promising to play a significant part in solving the compliance conundrum by reducing complexity, cutting costly manual processes and delivering accurate and timely regulatory responses. Ahead of next week’s…
Linedata Upgrades Link to DTCC Cross-Border Transaction Matching Platform
Linedata has upgraded the interface between DTCC’s platform for central matching of cross-border transactions (CTM) and its Longview order management system (OMS) to improve workflows required by Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). The companies have worked in partnership for 10 years, providing asset managers and hedge funds with a direct interface to…
MiFID II Handbook – Second Edition
With the compliance deadline for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) just over two months away, A-Team Group has updated its MiFID II handbook to bring you the latest details on the regulation’s compliance requirements. Version 2 of the handbook, commissioned by Thomson Reuters, also includes new sections covering data sourcing and data…
MiFID II: Setting a Mobile Policy for Compliance and Trading Business
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) requires firms to record all trading-related electronic and voice communication. This includes recording communications made using mobile devices, whether they are firm or employee owned. The directive also extends previous requirements to record and store communications that resulted in a trade, to record and store communications that…
SteelEye Discusses RegTech Data Platform for MiFID II and More
Ahead of A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit for Capital Markets in London, we caught up with Matt Smith, CEO at SteelEye, to discuss the company’s RegTech proposition, potential users, and participation in our London event. Q: What does RegTech mean to you? A: For me, RegTech is the application of technical innovation to reduce the complexity…
Eze Software Sets Out its Approach to MiFID II
Following the appointment of David Quinlan, an 18-year veteran of Eze Software, as the company’s executive managing director of EMEA with responsibility for business development and a focus on the needs of growing numbers of EMEA clients within the scope of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), we caught up with Quinlan and…