USAM, the New York-based provider of integrated sales, marketing, and advisory services to growth-stage financial technology companies, has added five new clients to its roster: Urvin.ai, TransFICC, MAP Digital, eLoomina and Bodo.ai. The company has also recruited five new members of staff, across operations, sales and marketing and data science/programming, and has launched a new website to service both fintech providers and technology buyers.
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) creates new data sources that could be used to identify business opportunities and gain competitive edge. The sources include Approved Publication Arrangements (APA) and ESMA’s Financial Instruments Reference Data System (FIRDS). The regulation also mandates use of standard data, disaggregated market data feeds, and ISINs for OTC...
Industry participants are concerned about the availability of the quality data they require to achieve straight-through-processing, according to a survey published last month by the U.S. Securities Industry Association and GartnerG2, a research firm. The survey also found high levels of concern about the deadline for the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.’s proposed corporate actions...
Now in its 15th year the TradingTech Summit London brings together the European trading technology capital markets industry and examines the latest changes and innovations in trading technology and explores how technology is being deployed to create an edge in sell side and buy side capital markets financial institutions.
Corporate actions has been a popular topic of discussion over the last few months, with the DTCC’s plans for XBRL and ISO interoperability, as well as the launch of Swift’s new self-testing service for corporate actions messaging, STaQS, among others. However, it has not been a good start to the year for many of the...