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Recorded Webinar: Best practice data governance for GDPR compliance
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on May 25, 2018, replacing and extending data privacy rules set down in 1995. This time around, the key to successful implementation is strong and sustainable data governance. The webinar will discuss the role of data governance in GDPR compliance, explore best practice implementation, and detail how…
United Overseas Bank Selects NeoXam to Support FRTB And BCBS 239
Singapore’s United Overseas Bank has selected NeoXam’s DataHub to support group-wide data management and compliance with regulatory requirements of the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) and risk data aggregation and reporting under BCBS239. Lim Ann Liat, head of markets and enterprise technology, group technology and operations at United Overseas Bank, says: “One of…
Thomson Reuters Releases State of Regulatory Reform 2018 Report
Thomson Reuters has released a State of Regulatory Reform 2018 Special Report highlighting a rise in international divergence in regulatory reform and financial firms racing to apply digital technology. On a geographic basis, the report, now in its eighth annual edition, describes major regulations taking effect in the European Union and Asia Pacific, and the…
Sponsored Blog: Ullink Considers How Low-Touch and High-Touch Trading are Playing Out in a Changing Economic Environment
The global trading landscape is changing, driven by regulation, automation, cost pressure and the search for alpha. In response, sell-side firms are rebalancing their high-touch order management and low-touch direct market access (DMA) trading, and considering new approaches to achieving accurate and efficient electronic trade execution at speed and scale. On the buy-side, firms continue…
Regulatory Compliance: The Use of Twitter in Financial Services
Twitter has emerged as a source of market-moving information. But it’s difficult to get Twitter delivered to your trading desk, for a variety of reasons, ranging from concerns about market abuse, to the proliferation of fake news and the potential risk of reputational damage. By banning Twitter, trading firm management may be seeking to avoid…
NeoXam Details Product Plans for 2018
After a period of intense activity, acquisition and reorganisation, NeoXam moves into 2018 with a focus on its Investment Book of Record (IBOR) and DataHub solutions. It is also responding to customer requests to include standardised data in its solution modules and aiming to help asset managers deal with the challenges of regulation, data…
Firms Need a Strategic Approach to the 2018 Regulatory Agenda
The 2018 regulatory agenda is in motion, with Packaged Retail and Insurance based Investment Products (PRIIPs) going live on January 1st, and Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) taking effect on January 3rd. Looking forward, the compliance deadline for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is May…
What Do You Think 2018 Holds in Store for the RegTech Industry?
By: Conor Coughlan, global head of risk, regulatory and compliance marketing, Financial and Risk Division, Thomson Reuters Looking forward and following current patterns of industry change and analysis, 2018 is going to be a pivotal year for regtech collaboration, service and solutions providers. In essence, the themes we can expect to see more of in…
DTCC Adds Exception Manager to Trade Processing Product Suite
DTCC has introduced Exception Manager, an addition to its institutional trade processing product suite. The solution supports all securities transactions and is designed to allow market participants to publish, manage and communicate exceptions throughout the trade lifecycle. The exception manager includes a central online industry platform that provides a single view of all post-trade exceptions,…
2018 – The Year of Regulation
Happy New Year and welcome to the Year of Regulation, aka the Year of the Dog and, for some capital markets participants struggling to stay abreast of regulatory requirements, the Year of Anxiety. At the top of the agenda are Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR),…