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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…
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…
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…
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…
Data Management Implications of the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book
Data management for the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) poses problems around identification of risk factors, non-modellable risk factors, internal modelling and regulatory reporting, but solutions can be found by starting early, focussing on data requirements and working with third-party data providers. The data management challenges and opportunities of FRTB were discussed during…
Recorded Webinar: Data management implications of the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB)
Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) is two years away. Significant data management changes and challenges presented by the regulation call for an early start on implementation. The webinar will discuss the challenges of FRTB and provide practical guidance on how best to achieve efficient and effective compliance. Listen to the webinar to find…
The Trading Regulations Handbook
Need to know all the essentials about the regulations impacting trading infrastructure? Welcome to the first edition of our A-Team Trading Regulations Handbook which provides all the essentials about regulations impacting trading operations, data and technology. A-Team’s Trading Regulations Handbook is a great way to see at-a-glance: All the regulations that are impacting trading technology…
Recorded Webinar: Driving business value from the LEI
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) has become a viable standard to help financial institutions identify business entities that are party to financial transactions and fulfil regulatory obligations for entity data. Linked to third-party, corporate hierarchy and beneficial ownership data, the potential of the LEI extends to meet not only regulatory requirements, but also the need…
When Is Lower Latency Worth The Effort?
Shaving response times by nanoseconds can produce value in high-frequency trading, but the cost of achieving that size of an improvement in latency, in resources and time, can be too high for trading of more complicated types of securities, according to low-latency services and market access platform providers. “High frequency traders are responding at a…