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Evidology Integrates with MS Teams
Evidology Systems, provider of the principles-based QED platform, is now fully integrated with Microsoft Teams, enabling sustained management of regulatory compliance from within the application for the first time. Building on QED’s integration with Microsoft Office 365 back in April, compliance with regulations such as FRTB, SMCR, PSD2, and GDPR can now be tracked and…
COVID-19 Effects on NSFR Reporting: Financial Institutions Must Set Sail Strategically Amid Choppy Seas
By AxiomSL. Concerns that effects of the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to a global liquidity crisis have caused a surge in regulatory requirements for liquidity monitoring and reporting that have hugely strained financial institutions. Meeting the net stable funding ratio (NSFR) lies at the heart of this operational and strategic challenge. New Standards On The…
SIX Launches Fully Delegated SFTR Reporting for Swiss Repo Market
The Swiss Stock Exchange’s SFTR reporting services is now live in synchronisation with the introduction of the SFTR regulation. Over 170 clients stand to benefit from this offering. The Swiss Stock Exchange automates the way it provides Unique Transaction Identifiers (UTI) creating a scale offering featuring SFTR-compliant and fully delegated reporting. For the delegated reporting, SIX…
Regulation Best Interest: A New Standard for US Brokers
The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Regulation Best Interest—or Reg BI— officially came into effect on June 30, 2020. Brokerage firms now have to comply with a whole new standard of conduct when dealing with retail clients, in one of the biggest regulatory shake-ups for the US market in years… but there have been concerns…
TriOptima Extends Collaboration with DTCC on SFTR
TriOptima, an infrastructure service that helps to lower costs and to mitigate risk in OTC derivatives markets, has extended data connectivity between The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) Global Trade Repository (GTR) service and TriOptima’s triResolve platform to help market participants validate their reported securities financing transactions as they prepare for SFTR compliance. Through…
FINRA Fines Morgan Stanley for Incorrect Trading Data
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has fined Morgan Stanley $875,000 for failing to provide accurate trade data (also known as “blue sheets”) in an automated format when requested to do so by FINRA and the SEC. The regulator found that the bank had experienced significant failures in its blue sheet systems between 2014 and…
TRAction Fintech Expands Alliance with UnaVista on Regulatory Reporting
Specialist regulatory reporting firm TRAction Fintech has expanded its existing collaborative partnership with UnaVista, the regulatory reporting platform of the London Stock Exchange (LSE), in a bid to simplify MiFID II, EMIR and SFTR reporting for FX and CFD brokers. The alliance is designed to enable easier integration of trading platforms with regulatory reporting systems,…
SFTR Reporting Goes Live – But Is the Industry Ready?
The first deadline for new transaction reporting under the UE’s SFTR went live on July 13, and while the first phase seems to have come off relatively smoothly, there are still some concerns around the readiness of the financial services industry when it comes to the reporting process. “Whilst [this] marks the first deadline for…
Recorded Webinar: The Transformation of Buy-Side Market Surveillance
Asset managers, hedge funds, insurance firms, and other buy-side firms globally are becoming more active in their approach to market surveillance, as regulatory pressure to up their game mounts. Buy-side firms are now building out their surveillance infrastructure as they seek to respond to the requirements posed by Dodd-Frank, MiFID II and the Market Abuse…
The Results Are In… Trading Tech Insight Awards USA 2020
The A-Team Group Trading Tech Insight Awards USA winners were announced this week in the second year of the North American edition, and while we were sad not to be able to hold our usual glittering reception to celebrate the winners, their achievement is no less redoubtable. US market practitioners and suppliers are facing unique…