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Best Practice Approaches to Trade Surveillance for Market Abuse
Market abuse is a problem, a very big problem for financial institutions that fall on the wrong side of regulation. Penalties include eye-watering fines, reputational damage and, ultimately, custodial sentences of up to 10 years. Internally, market abuse triggers scrutiny of traders and trading behaviours, a lack of trust and the potential need for significant…
Tech Trends in Trading: Industry Experts Review 2023 and Look Ahead to 2024
As 2023 draws to a close, it’s time to look back at some of the more interesting trends that have emerged in the trading technology space over the last twelve months, and to take a look ahead at what 2024 might have in store. With this in mind, TradingTech Insight reached out to a group…
FinClear Adopts Eventus’ Validus Platform for Enhanced Trade Surveillance and Monitoring
FinClear, Australia’s leading full-service infrastructure provider for financial markets and provider of trade execution and third-party clearing services, has deployed the Validus platform from Eventus for trade surveillance and post-trade monitoring. This strategic move is aimed at bolstering FinClear’s capabilities in overseeing one in two retail transactions in Australia and managing over AU$360 billion in…
UK’s Financial Conduct Authority Chooses OneTick Surveillance for Market Oversight
In a significant development for UK financial market regulation, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has selected OneTick Surveillance from OneMarketData, LLC, as its primary market surveillance and visualisation system. The cloud-based service is designed to enhance the FCA’s ability to detect and investigate market anomalies, thereby safeguarding the integrity and orderly function of the UK’s…
Are Firms Prepared for Wave of Messaging Fines Headed for Britain?
By Oliver Blower, CEO of VoxSmart. The last few years have seen market regulators dole out record numbers of fines to financial institutions over their failure to adequately monitor employee communications on instant messaging applications like WhatsApp. According to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement division chief Gurbir Grewal, the regulator has filed charges against…
TS Imagine Launches Best Execution Compliance Module
In a development complementing TS Imagine’s recent collaboration with eflow for trade surveillance capabilities, the trading and risk management platform provider has introduced a new module within its TradeSmart OEMS and TS One platforms to enhance Best Execution compliance and reporting for financial traders. Designed to simplify compliance, the module offers an integrated view of…
SteelEye Introduces Compliance CoPilot to Enhance Communication Surveillance
Following its integration of ChatGPT 4 into its compliance platform earlier this year, surveillance solutions vendor Steeleye has launched the Compliance CoPilot, an AI-driven compliance tool that harnesses the power of advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) to streamline the communication surveillance alert review process. As regulatory bodies worldwide continue to impose fines on investment banks…
TS Imagine Partners with eflow to Add Surveillance Capabilities
Trading and risk management platform provider TS Imagine has forged a partnership with eflow, a provider of regulatory compliance solutions, that aims to help mutual clients both to meet their regulatory obligations and to safeguard against market abuse through communications monitoring. According to Alex Carteau, head of corporate development at TS Imagine, “This partnership bolsters our…
Truphone Rebrands as 1Global
Mobile network operator Truphone has announced that it is changing its company name and embarking on a rebranding journey. Henceforth, the company will be named 1GLOBAL. In a letter to customers, the company described the essence of its new identity stemming from the fact that it is one global Telco, operating on one unified network,…
Eventus Rolls Out Next-Generation User Interface
Trade surveillance software provider Eventus has launched the next-generation UI for its Validus platform, which the company states will provide a more streamlined, efficient user experience with comprehensive new case-building features and greater transparency. The new UI offers centralised compliance management across all asset classes and includes an enhanced dashboard layer and easy-to-use investigation tools…