ARMs Get Their Own Trade Body as Transaction Data Takes Over MiFIR Transparency
A structural shift in how ESMA calibrates the MiFIR transparency regime has handed Approved Reporting Mechanisms (ARMs) a more central role in market data infrastructure than they have held since MiFID II went live in 2018. Under the simplification programme tied to the MiFIR Review, ESMA has discontinued the dedicated reporting flows on which transparency...
The ‘More Data Is Better’ Myth
By Edgar Randall, Head of Europe, Dun & Bradstreet. For years, business leaders have been told that data is their greatest asset. Collect more of it, connect more sources, and better decisions will follow. However, as organisations accelerate their investment in AI, analytics and digital transformation, this long-held assumption is starting to be challenged. The...
Ataccama Gathers Data Capabilities into Focused EU AI Act Package
As the implementation date for the European Union’s AI Act looms, financial institutions are having to put their data estates on a secure footing to ensure they comply with the wide-ranging regulation. The Act requires organisations to have a broad and granular view of their data in order to show that they can trace any...
Don’t Misread a Shift in Regulatory Tone – Global Relay
US regulators may be stepping back from the penalty-led off-channel communications sweeps that defined recent enforcement cycles, but that does not mean firms can ease up on surveillance or record-keeping controls. The shift under new leadership at the SEC and CFTC should be reviewed as a change in enforcement emphasis: fewer technical cases pursued in...
The Buy-and-Build Line Keeps Moving – And That’s the Point
The old buy-versus-build debate in trading technology has been declared dead so many times it risks becoming a cliché. But at a recent A-Team Group webinar entitled How to move to a modern, component based trading architecture using a Buy AND Build approach, sponsored by interop.io, a sharper question surfaced beneath the familiar framing: if...
Bloomberg’s Macro Point-in-Time Launch Highlights Importance of Consensus Evolution
Vendor announcements about point-in-time macro data tend to compete on the same three axes: how many indicators, how many countries, how far back. Bloomberg’s launch this week of its Economic Releases and Surveys Point-in-Time dataset hits all three credibly – more than 3,000 indicators, over 100 economies, history to 1997 – and ties the dataset...
Delta Capita Report Hub Extends Controls into Post-Reporting Assurance
Regulatory reporting teams have spent much of the past two years focused on rewrites, implementation deadlines and submission mechanics. The priority is now shifting to Post-Reporting Assurance: once a report has been filed, can the firm evidence that the data was accurate, complete, reconciled and subject to proper oversight? That shift is shaping the next...
From CFDs to Options: The Prop Sector’s Hardest Migration Yet?
The retail-facing prop trading sector – the funded account model that grew up around FX/CFD and futures trading platforms – spent 2024 in crisis. After a shakeout that wiped out an estimated 80 to 100 firms globally, the survivors have spent the past two years diversifying, first into futures, and now into exchange-traded options. The...
ESMA Pushes ‘Report Once’ Model for EU Reporting
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has advanced two major strands of its reporting simplification agenda, setting out a proposed integrated reporting framework for investment funds while opening the next phase of work on streamlining transaction reporting across Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR), European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) and Securities Financing Transactions Regulation...
The Gap Technographics Leaves for Investment Firms – And What Comes Next
Try to track the technologies Microsoft uses, and the first thing that becomes clear is how scattered the question really is. Microsoft is microsoft.com, but it is also azure.com, github.com, linkedin.com, xbox.com, office.com, and hundreds of country and product subdomains. None of those addresses carry a built-in label saying this belongs to Microsoft, ticker MSFT....