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Tumbling Down the Rabbit Hole
By Christian Voigt, Senior Regulatory Adviser at Fidessa With much of the MiFID II Level 2 text close to being finalised, the markets continue to dive even deeper into the details and home in on Level 3 material, such as the Q&As and ESMA guidelines. One such detail lies in the phrase “traded on a…
Consortium with the Enemy
By Dan Barnes Capital markets are built on the bones of old consortia. Now, the revolution expected of securities markets from the adoption of distributed ledger (DL) or blockchain technology, which offers transparent and irrefutable transaction chains, is in the hands of five such groups, many with common members. Blockchain could make some industry processes…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: The Emergence of the MiFID II Ecosystem
It’s back to school week and so we found ourselves back in town, hearing all about Colt’s new MiFID II Ecosystem, based around access points offered by its Colt PrizmNet financial extranet. The premise is relatively simple: why not use PrizmNet as the conduit to a range of MiFID II-relevant partner applications? At a function…
Everything You Need to Know About MiFID II
The deadline for MiFID II compliance has been delayed to January 2018, but it remains tight with firms continuing to implement projects that satisfy the directive’s rules on issues including regulated trading platforms, algo testing, high frequency trading and surveillance. There is also work to be done on record-keeping, voice recording, and trade reconstruction. And…
Blockchain Technology is Making Progress but Needs Standards, Business Cases and Brave Pioneers
Summer in the City and time to review what could, arguably, be the ‘next big thing’ for capital markets – blockchain technology. It is certainly on the agenda across the financial services sector, consortia have been set up to drive development, and the business case looks great, with blockchain offering the potential for more efficient,…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Don’t Kill the Messenger
Away from the surreality of the supposed real world of British politics, the past week has seen a resumption of action in the trader messaging space. Thomson Reuters announced it has partnered with CME Group to combine their respective messaging networks, creating a critical mass in the derivatives markets. Earlier, Thomson Reuters said it was…
A-Team Survey Reports Potential Impact of Brexit on our Trading Community
To gauge opinion on the UK’s exit from the European Union, A-Team Group, producers of Intelligent Trading Technology, recently conducted a survey among capital markets participants. The survey uncovered serious concerns about the impact Brexit could have on the UK financial data and technology industry, with 85% of respondents expecting the impact to be negative…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: It’s a MAD MAD / MAR MAR World
Here in Canary Wharf, at least, all of the ongoing fuss about Brexit distracted us from a key regulatory milestone: the introduction on July 4 for the EU’s Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), the real-life incarnation of its earlier foray into financial crime: the Market Abuse Directive (MAD). We could all be forgiven for worrying about…
Intelligent Trading Summit Considers Challenges and Opportunities of Incoming Regulation
Regulation of trading operations will ramp up with the introduction of Regulation Automated Trading (Reg AT) and Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), adding to the cost burden, but also providing potential for new trading opportunities. The challenges and opportunities presented by incoming regulation and the technology response for 2016 will be explored…
Corvil Extends Data Capture Platform to Deliver Non-Intrusive MiFID II Solution
Corvil has extended its network data capture and analytics platform to deliver a Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) compliance solution that is applied as an overlay to existing infrastructure and integrates a lightweight agent that collects time-stamped events from software applications. The solution uses an independent system to gather precision data needed…