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The IDX Roadshow Rolls into Town
June in London means it’s time for IDX – the International Derivatives Expo, the Futures Industry Association’s conference focusing on regulatory and technology issues facing that particular segment of the marketplace. We managed to stop by and say hi to some friends and clients, and savour the atmosphere of this microcosm of the Chicago market….
Intelligent Trading Summit Considers Challenges and Opportunities of Incoming Regulation
Regulation of trading operations will ramp up with the introduction of Regulation Automated Trading (Reg AT) and Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), adding to the cost burden, but also providing potential for new trading opportunities. The challenges and opportunities presented by incoming regulation and the technology response for 2016 will be explored…
Intelligent Trading Summit Discusses New Approaches to Execution Management
Trade execution has developed significantly over recent years, but there is more to come as firms apply additional intelligence to execution management with a view to gaining advantage in the market. Some approaches to improving execution management rely on new technologies, others on existing concepts, but all will be the subject of debate at next…
Sea Otter Implements Itiviti’s Tbricks Platform for ETF Market Making
Sea Otter Global Ventures, a private investment firm based in New York, has implemented Itiviti’s Tbricks platform for exchange traded funds (ETF) market making on NYSE Arca. The firm is a registered market maker on the exchange and deploys proprietary models to trade international ETFs. The Tbricks platform uses an app-based architecture and is provided…
A-Team Webinar Discusses Approaches to Best Execution under MiFID II
The best execution requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) present several challenges including the need to manage more data, time-stamp and sequence messages, and report in line with the regulation’s compliance mandate. Financial institutions that implemented the first iteration of MiFID after it came into force in 2007 may have a…
Recorded Webinar: Adding Intelligence to Electronic Execution for Best Execution Under MiFID II
MiFID II’s provisions for best execution promise to be more rigorous than its predecessor’s. They also will be applied to a host of relatively illiquid and potentially more complex asset classes. Compliance will be challenging. This webinar looks at the emerging requirement for truly smart order routing under MiFID II’s best execution rules: Approaches to…
Corvil Extends Data Capture Platform to Deliver Non-Intrusive MiFID II Solution
Corvil has extended its network data capture and analytics platform to deliver a Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) compliance solution that is applied as an overlay to existing infrastructure and integrates a lightweight agent that collects time-stamped events from software applications. The solution uses an independent system to gather precision data needed…
Itiviti Develops Regulatory Compliance Platform for MAR and MiFID II
Itiviti is developing a regulatory compliance solution that will be delivered as a managed service, focus first on Europe’s Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), and then on Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II). The solution is based on Itiviti’s Tbricks high performance trading platform and the OneTick ticker plant provided by Itiviti partner One Market…
Fidessa Partners Alpha Omega to Support FIX-Based Post-Trade Processing
Fidessa has partnered Alpha Omega to tackle the cost and inefficiency of post-trade affirmation processing, promote use of the FIX protocol, and grow its global trading network. The partnership integrates Fidessa’s post-trade Affirmation Management Service (AMS), an industry utility that provides low-cost affirmation processing as an alternative to central matching, and Alpha Omega’s FIX based…
Financial Machineries Extends Data Coverage of Global Trade Repository Analytics
Financial Machineries has extended coverage of foreign exchange data in its Global Trade Repository (GTR) Analytics solution, which collects OTC derivatives transaction data from trade repositories, cleanses and normalises the data, and distributes the data, including actual trade prices, to clients in less than two minutes. The additional FX data covers FX forwards and non-deliverable…