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SmartStream Adds MiFID II Derivatives Component Ahead of September Deadline
SmartStream Technologies, the financial Reference Data Utility (RDU) solutions provider, has added derivatives to its Systematic Internaliser (SI) Registry service, to help clients meet the rapidly approaching MiFID II deadline of 15 September, 2020. The new service will allow trading counterparties to identify who is responsible for reporting trades in general, but also supports them through one of the most…
LPA Group Acquires RegTech Acarda
Capital markets technology specialist the LPA Group has acquired the Acarda Group, a provider of RegTech solutions for asset managers, fund administrators, insurance companies and banks focusing on the automation of regulatory reporting and automated data management. The accretive, add-on acquisition was preceded by a successful collaboration and test phase starting in April 2020. Acarda’s…
ESMA Yet Again Postpones CSDR Settlement Discipline
In the wake of the UK’s Chancellor Rishi Sunak rejecting the EU’s Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) settlement discipline regime as part of its adoption of EU regulations post-Brexit, it looks as if the European regulator too is now having second thoughts. Last week, ESMA published a final report on the draft technical standards of…
Big Data Technology for Regulatory Reporting Is Getting Lots of Publicity: It Might Have Real Star Quality
By Vlad Etkin, CTO, AxiomSL. It has only been a few years since the concept of big data was first heard in association with regulatory reporting, and while there are still questions about what it really is and its applicability to regulatory reporting, it’s obviously here to stay. However, as with all new concepts, it…
SteelEye Seeks to Automate Compliance with Auto-Trade Reconstruction Technology
Compliance technology and data analytics firm SteelEye made a splash last week with the launch of its new Auto-Trade Reconstruction technology, which reduces the time it takes for a firm to reconstruct a trade from days to seconds. Under MiFID II, MAR, Dodd-Frank and other global regulations, authorised firms can be asked by the regulator at…
FINRA Starts the Clock on OATS Retirement
By Peter Gargone, CEO at n-Tier. FINRA’s August 14 SEC rule filing, coupled with its July 29 compliance webinar, provide the clearest view yet on FINRA’s approach to enforcing CAT regulatory compliance and achieving the industry’s goal of retiring OATS reporting. Peter Gargone of compliance software specialist n-Tier discusses the complexities of the transition, and the…
Next Six Months Crucial for LIBOR Transition, FCA Urges Firms to Sign ISDA Protocol
The four to six months ahead of us are arguably the most critical period in the transition away from LIBOR, and the time to act is now. So says Edwin Schooling Latter, Director of Markets and Wholesale Policy at the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, as he urges the financial services industry to prepare for one…
AxiomSL Reveals New FRTB Certification in Line with ISDA Benchmarking
AxiomSL, a provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions, has launched its new Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB-SA) and Counterparty Credit Risk (SA-CCR) certification – one of the first to provide clients with calculations in line with the International Swaps and Derivatives Association’s (ISDA) ‘golden source’ calculations. The rigorous golden source calculations…
AI to Assist Regulatory Compliance and Drive Transparency and Growth in an Uncertain World
By Lucas Wurfbain, Co-CEO, FeedStock. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the asset management industry has been transformative and wide-ranging. Increased market volatility and a large-scale move to remote working environments, alongside the ever-present uncertainty that comes with almost daily changes in government policy are now the new normal. The regulatory environment has also…
Asset Control Partners with Finmechanics on FRTB Solution
Data quality software specialist Asset Control has joined forces with Singapore-based risk management and regulatory compliance firm Finmechanics to launch a new technology solution banks with an accelerated approach to FRTB implementation. Including both standardised approach and internal models approach (IMA) and other regulatory imperatives, the approach integrates data management with risk analytics, allowing non-modellable risk…