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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…
Outside Partnerships Bolster Trade Execution Infrastructures
Partnership is the most important ingredient for optimising the performance of trading infrastructure and reducing its complexity, say operations executives who spoke at the Intelligent Trading Summit in London on 2nd February. Regulatory compliance issues are gaining on cost and value as the biggest consideration, however, according to the executives. Partnership efforts address the need…
Advanced Logic Analytics Discusses Proposals for Compliance and Trading
Advanced Logic Analytics (ALA) plans to meet the data management requirements of regulatory compliance and the trading need for predictive, behavioural and emotional analytics with OneLogic, an analytics platform designed to process and analyse structured and unstructured data big data in real time. We caught up with ALA managing director, Nick Ellis, just a week…
Recorded Webinar: MiFID II: Data for best execution
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) strengthens the best execution requirement embedded in MiFID by expanding disclosure. Among the directive’s requirements are provisions to ensure investment firms provide appropriate information to clients on their order execution policy and publish a list of the top five execution venues used in the previous year for…
Financial Machineries and Iason Develop Anonymous Benchmarking Service for FRTB
Financial Machineries is collaborating with Italian risk management consultancy Iason to deliver a service that will help banks prove they have enough data to use an internal model for market risk capital calculations required by Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation. Banks that cannot prove they have enough data to use an internal…
Markit EDM Lays Out 2017 Roadmap
Markit EDM, the enterprise data management (EDM) business of Markit that merged with IHS in July 2016, has laid out its roadmap for 2017 including functional expansion of its EDM platform and a focus on delivering improved data visualisation to business users. Working with IHS, a provider of proprietary information, analytics and solutions to a…