Archax, the FCA regulated digital securities exchange, brokerage and custodian based in London, has appointed Malcolm Ford to lead its institutional sales activities in the run up to launch. Ford has over 20 years of experience in the institutional capital markets space, having worked for CMC Markets, Instinet, KCG, Morgan Stanley and Credit Agricole Cheuvreux. He has also worked for leading boutique firms including Assure Hedge, Linear Investments and Monsas.
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) went live over three months ago, requiring financial institutions to make significant changes to their data management processes. The webinar will discuss how these processes held up on the compliance deadline, January 3, 2018, identify which elements of data management need to be revisited, and consider the...
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) in collaboration with trading solutions and infrastructure provider IPC Systems, has announced the planned launch of ICE Voice, a new cloud-based audio platform designed to complement ICE Chat, creating a comprehensive communications solution for traders and financial professionals. ICE Voice aims to integrate ICE Chat’s user base of over 120,000 active...
Now in its 10th year, RegTech Summit London will bring together the RegTech ecosystem to explore how the European capital markets financial industry can leverage technology to innovate the compliance function and response.
It’s hard to believe that as early as the 2009 Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh the industry had recognised the need for greater transparency as part of a wider package of reforms aimed at mitigating the systemic risk posed by the OTC derivatives market. That realisation ultimately led to the Dodd Frank Act, and...