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Vendor Strategy: How SpaceTime is Distilling Complex Markets into Actionable Insights

With regulators placing an ever-greater focus on best execution, firms across the buy and sell side are making increasing use of transaction cost analysis (TCA) to demonstrate to customers how their execution performance measures up against various benchmarks. But TCA is not just a regulatory tool. Real-time TCA can also be an incredibly useful resource…

FINBOURNE Selected by Bloomberg, MarketAxess and Tradeweb to Build Fixed Income Consolidated Tape

Following a closely fought tender process against a number of industry peers, FINBOURNE Technology has been selected as the technology infrastructure provider for the Bloomberg, MarketAxess and Tradeweb initiative to build a consolidated tape (CT) for fixed income in Europe. In a media statement, the company said it had spent significant time collaborating with capital…

A-Team Group’s Lorna Van Zyl Featured on FinTech Focus TV, Discussing TradingTech Summit London

In anticipation of this year’s TradingTech Summit London, we’re delighted that A-Team Group’s Head of Event Content, Lorna Van Zyl, was the star guest on the latest episode of FinTech Focus TV, talking with Toby Babb of Harrington Starr. In a wide-ranging interview, Lorna shares what goes on behind the scenes when putting the event…

Eventus Launches Anti-Money Laundering Solution, Validus AML

Trade surveillance and market risk solutions vendor Eventus has launched Validus AML, a new end-to-end anti-money laundering (AML) platform aimed at helping firms in both the traditional finance and digital asset space combat financial crime. The cloud-based solution combines a signals-based approach to behaviour detection with rules-based logic and advanced data analytics. Validus AML will…

TradingTech Summit Returns to London with Focus on Digital Transformation and Innovation

The TradingTech Summit London, one of the most highly anticipated events in the financial technology industry, is back for the 12th time on 28th February at London’s Hilton Canary Wharf. The summit will bring together the leading innovators, investors, and thought leaders in trading technology to discuss the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in this…

Investment Banks Can’t Afford Not to MIND the Front Office Risk GAP

By Oliver Blower, CEO of VoxSmart. A phrase heard by so many only to be listened to by so few. “Mind the gap”, synonymous with the mundane morning commuter grind, currently takes on a far greater significance for City traders travelling to work. Not dissimilar to the cost conundrum facing the rail industry recently, when…

Are You Ready for the Tide to Change for Compliant Communications?

By Jennie Clarke, Senior Manager at Global Relay, the electronic communications compliance specialists. Regulatory obligation and guidance surrounding the capture, monitoring and surveillance of digital communication channels is far-reaching and increasingly robust. The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Handbook SYSC 10A, for example, requires firms to “take all reasonable steps to record telephone conversations, and keep…

2023 – the Year Liquidity Risk Management Focuses on Collateral Squeeze

Jo Burnham, Risk and Margining SME, OpenGamma. Liquidity Risk Management 2023 is likely to see a real focus on the collateral squeeze. There are many factors that will be making it harder to source the collateral needed to cover margin requirements. The EU pension fund exemption will expire in 2023, meaning they will be subject…

Etrading Software Secures Significant Investment from LDC

LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group, has made a multi-million pound investment in Etrading Software, the London-based capital markets technology company specialising in the provision of market and reference data. LDC’s investment, the first external funding for Etrading Software, will enable the company to continue growing its range of technology-enabled services and…

Preparing for DORA, the Digital Operational Resilience Act

On 28th November 2022, the European Council formally adopted the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), new legislation designed to strengthen the IT security of financial entities such as banks, insurance companies and investment firms. Originally proposed in September 2020 as part of a larger European digital finance package, DORA’s recent adoption by the EC is…