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Market Abuse Regulation and How Not to Fall Foul of the Rules
The messy collapse of once revered construction and professional services multinational Carillion in 2018 not only shook the City of London, but also offered powerful insight into authorities’ determination to stamp out market abuse. While the £845 million hole Carillion reported in its accounts was stunning, the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) response was just as…
Vendor Strategy: How SpaceTime is Distilling Complex Markets into Actionable Insights
With regulators placing an ever-greater focus on best execution, firms across the buy and sell side are making increasing use of transaction cost analysis (TCA) to demonstrate to customers how their execution performance measures up against various benchmarks. But TCA is not just a regulatory tool. Real-time TCA can also be an incredibly useful resource…
A-Team Group’s Lorna Van Zyl Featured on FinTech Focus TV, Discussing TradingTech Summit London
In anticipation of this year’s TradingTech Summit London, we’re delighted that A-Team Group’s Head of Event Content, Lorna Van Zyl, was the star guest on the latest episode of FinTech Focus TV, talking with Toby Babb of Harrington Starr. In a wide-ranging interview, Lorna shares what goes on behind the scenes when putting the event…
Eventus Launches Anti-Money Laundering Solution, Validus AML
Trade surveillance and market risk solutions vendor Eventus has launched Validus AML, a new end-to-end anti-money laundering (AML) platform aimed at helping firms in both the traditional finance and digital asset space combat financial crime. The cloud-based solution combines a signals-based approach to behaviour detection with rules-based logic and advanced data analytics. Validus AML will…
Are You Ready for the Tide to Change for Compliant Communications?
By Jennie Clarke, Senior Manager at Global Relay, the electronic communications compliance specialists. Regulatory obligation and guidance surrounding the capture, monitoring and surveillance of digital communication channels is far-reaching and increasingly robust. The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Handbook SYSC 10A, for example, requires firms to “take all reasonable steps to record telephone conversations, and keep…
Crypto Options Exchange Deribit Selects Eventus for Trade Surveillance
Panama-based Deribit, the world’s largest cryptocurrency options exchange by volume and open interest, has selected Eventus, the trade surveillance and market risk solutions vendor, to provide market abuse monitoring on the exchange through the company’s Validus platform. The exchange considered various trade surveillance solutions in anticipation of operating under the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority in…
Recorded Webinar: New solutions to the old problems of compliance with communications surveillance regulation
Communications surveillance is an integral element of trading at financial institutions, and its functions are clearly set out in jurisdictional regulations – to capture, record and retain all communications. Essentially, all business related communications must be recorded whatever the underlying mechanism – be it a work phone, personal mobile phone, text, video and so on…
Archax Raises $28.5m in Series A Funding
Archax, the UK FCA-regulated digital asset exchange, brokerage and custodian, has closed a Series A funding round of $28.5 million, with investors including abrdn as lead strategic investor, alongside Bitrock Capital, Blockchain Coinvestors, CE Innovation Capital, Keiretsu Capital, Lingfeng Capital, Mathrix AG, SGH Capital, The Tezos Foundation and others. Archax is the UK’s first digital…
Liquidnet Electronifies Bond Issuance Workflow with Live Deals
Liquidnet, the agency execution specialist, has achieved the next stage of its electronification of the new bond issuance process, by successfully transmitting live buy-side orders in from Order and Execution Management Systems to participating syndicate banks. The electronic workflow follows the initial testing that Liquidnet Primary Markets conducted earlier this year in collaboration with Invesco…
DBS Deploys Nasdaq Surveillance Technology to Support Market Integrity
DBS, Southeast Asia’s largest bank, announced that it will leverage Nasdaq Trade Surveillance technology to advance its surveillance and market integrity efforts. Nasdaq’s solutions will improve DBS’s ability to analyse market abuse surveillance scenarios and detect trading anomalies across equities and derivatives markets as well as OTC FX markets. The technology will provide DBS with…