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Solving the Data Management Challenges of FRTB
Despite the compliance deadline of Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation being pushed back to January 2022, the time to address the data management challenges of the regulation is now. A recent A-Team Group Webinar explored the key data challenges presented by the regulation, identified possible solutions, and discussed best practices for implementation. The…
Dalzell Trading Chooses LiquidityBook to Support Outsourced Trading
Dalzell Trading, the outsourced trading firm opened this year by David Dalzell, has selected LiquidityBook’s Outsourced Trader portfolio, order and execution management system to support its provision of US equity and options trading to emerging and established hedge funds and investment managers. According to Dalzell, the firm selected the LiquidityBook web-based platform on the basis…
Act Now to Be Ready for Fundamental New Capital Rules
By Tim Lind, Managing Director at DTCC Data Services A decade on since the global financial crisis, large swathes of financial regulation aimed at addressing the weaknesses exposed during that time have come into force. Among many lessons learned in terms of market risk, there were two specific gaps that regulators wanted to address: ensure…
DSB Sets Up Change and Challenge Processes for OTC Derivative ISINs
The Data Service Bureau (DSB) that issues ISINs for OTC derivatives under MiFID II has set up change and challenge processes. The change request addresses issues with existing ISINs or with the product definition templates supplied by the DSB for the creation of OTC derivative ISINs. The challenge process allows users to challenge existing ISINs, for…
MiFID II Drives Innovation in Research Management
The challenges of how to manage research under MiFID II – where it comes from, how you pay for it and how much it costs – are the result of the regulation’s focus on bringing transparency to investors. The regulation has also created a cottage industry of nimble innovators alongside the big players that have…
Recorded Webinar: MiFID II: How to optimise data management for transaction reporting
As MiFID II hits the six-month mark, how well is your organisation handling transaction reporting? Is it ready to meet the LEI mandate that will take effect on July 3 and require all parties to transactions to have LEIs? And how is it coping with sourcing and managing ISINs required for OTC derivatives reporting? The…
Intelligent Trading Summit Debates the Prospects of Cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrency is all the rage in capital markets, but how does it differ from other asset classes, how will it be regulated and what are its challenges and opportunities for trading firms and exchanges? A panel session at A-Team Group’s recent Intelligent Trading Summit in New York City answered these questions and more, looking at both the…
It’s Official – No Further Delays in the Use of LEIs Under MiFID II
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) confirmed today that the six-month delay to the mandate requiring the use of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) for all issuers and counterparties to transactions under MiFID II will not be extended. The initial delay from January 3, 2018, when MiFID II came into play, to July 3, 2018…
DSB Technology Advisory Committee to Discuss Resiliency and Efficiency
The Derivatives Service Bureau’s (DSB) Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) set up earlier this month will hold its first meeting next Wednesday, June 27th 2018. Topics on the agenda range from infrastructure issues about the stability and resiliency of the DSB platform to usability issues related to download formats and increased efficiency. Many of the topics come…
Datactics Moves into Iceland with Contract Win at Arion Bank
Datactics has won its first customer in Iceland, Arion Bank, which will use the company’s RegMetrics and Single Customer View data quality solutions to support an enterprise data management programme. The bank selected Datactics after a competitive vendor selection process that included a technically demanding and tightly specified proof of concept across three departments, each…