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Making Market Data Instantaneous: Beast Apps Shakes Up Trader Workflow
With its Monoceros Market Data Platform (MDP), financial data, analytics, trading and risk technology company The Beast Apps expects to change the traditional client sales trader workflow from the way that has operated for decades. Intelligent Trading Technology spoke with Vinayek K. Singh, CEO of The Beast Apps, discussing what is novel about Monoceros (rhymes…
The Data Management Response to a Volatile Regulatory Landscape
The data management response to a regulatory landscape that is volatile and uncertain should be strategic, agile and future proof. It should also consider technology options including cloud, machine learning and blockchain. The need for a strategic approach to regulation at a time when US President Trump intends to repeal some financial legislation and the…
Recorded Webinar: MiFID II: Data for transaction reporting
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) is complemented by Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR), which builds out transaction reporting requirements with a number of new reporting obligations. The data and data management challenges of reporting include an increase in instruments that must be reported and the addition of several new fields to…
Hundreds of Data Practitioners Join A-Team Data Management Summit
Last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit was a cracking event that discussed everything from creating value from data to navigating the changing regulatory landscape, improving data governance and quality, client onboarding, big data, data visualisation and more. Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II) was also on the agenda, with panel sessions reviewing the…
Hany Choueiri Argues the Case for Information Standards
The biggest challenge to the fourth industrial revolution that will put artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and big data centre stage is a lack of widely agreed information standards caused by obsession with technology rather than information. Hany Choueiri, head of data governance and strategy, EMEA, at State Street, discussed the need for capital markets to…
Recorded Webinar: Trade/Order Tracking & Time-Stamping for Regulatory Compliance
At the beginning of 2018 in Europe, and before the end of 2017 in the US, new time-stamping requirements will come into force, under European MiFID II regulation and the US SEC’s Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) project. The RTS 25 provision of MiFID II sets exact millisecond and microsecond levels for time-stamp accuracy depending on…
DTCC DataPro Readies Fundamental Review of the Trading Book Solution
DTCC DataPro is planning to add Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB), expanded risk and extended exchange-traded funds (ETFs) solutions to its portfolio of data products through 2017. We caught up with Ron Jordan, managing director of Data Services at DTCC, soon after the rebranding of DTCC Data Products to DTCC DataPro to find…
Informatica Builds Out Data Governance Through Diaku Acquisition
Informatica is building out its data governance capability following the late February acquisition of UK data governance software and consulting company Diaku. The company has introduced Informatica Axon, a solution based on Diaku’s flagship Axon data governance technology and integrated the software with its Intelligent Data Platform. The integration adds data governance to data quality,…
CJC Moves On Outbound Market Data
Financial technology management solutions company CJC’s new IT Regulatory Services division is offering auditing and inventory of firms’ outbound data, concentrating on publication of market data rather than consumption, as a way to improve efficiency and reduce costs, according to Sheena Clark, director of regulatory services, CJC. “This is predominantly a data governance and risk…
The Next Frontier in Data Management Responses to Regulation
Not a conference on technology for capital markets goes by without many mentions of regulation, so here at A-Team Group we have put together a distinguished panel of speakers that will review the regulatory landscape and suggest how firms can develop data strategies that are compatible with a volatile environment at this week’s Data Management…