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MiFID II Unbundling’s Silver Lining: Leveraging Streaming Big Data Analytics to Differentiate Execution Services

European MiFID II regulation’s unbundling of broker research from execution services raises the question of how execution service providers can differentiate what they offer once research is no longer part of their relationship with buy-side clients. Best-execution provisions and the performance of brokers’ platforms could become the primary differentiator. This raises a follow-up question –…

Uncover the Biggest Compliance Challenges for International Businesses

When an international business has to satisfy compliance across the globe, it must pay careful attention to both the rules and the cultures in which it is operating. The financial crisis has increased regulatory scrutiny globally, with each country developing their own set of intense and sophisticated strategies and protocols for monitoring and policing economic…

Mission Possible: Turning Data Deluge into Opportunities for Financial Trading

In the financial trading markets, the race to zero is on, with participants including competing marketplaces, algorithmic trading operations, high frequency trading firms, market data aggregators and execution network providers all playing their role in pushing down transaction times from hundreds of milliseconds to tens of microseconds. Linking all of these players together is data…