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Recorded Webinar: MiFID II: Data for transparency

Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II) makes sweeping changes to pre- and post-trade transparency, extending MiFID requirements limited to equities trades on regulated platforms to cover equity-like and non-equity instruments traded on any trading venue. It also requires trade data to be published through approved arrangements and made available on a consolidated tape. Achieving...

Recorded Webinar: Driving business value from the LEI

The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) has become a viable standard to help financial institutions identify business entities that are party to financial transactions and fulfil regulatory obligations for entity data. Linked to third-party, corporate hierarchy and beneficial ownership data, the potential of the LEI extends to meet not only regulatory requirements, but also the need...

Recorded Webinar: MiFID II: Data for best execution

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) strengthens the best execution requirement embedded in MiFID by expanding disclosure. Among the directive’s requirements are provisions to ensure investment firms provide appropriate information to clients on their order execution policy and publish a list of the top five execution venues used in the previous year for...

Recorded Webinar: Managing entity data hierarchies and keeping track of sanctions, watch lists and PEPs across KYC processes

Managing entity data and entity ownership hierarchies to ensure Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance is an ongoing challenge for many financial institutions. The webinar will discuss the most pressing concerns around entity and hierarchy data, and consider how to ensure you are effectively managing entity data, hierarchies, sanctions, watch lists and politically exposed persons (PEPs)...

Recorded Webinar: How to establish a sustainable solution for data lineage

The implementation of data lineage is complex but necessary, driven by regulation such as BCBS 239 and internal needs to gain a better understanding of risk, reduce systems complexity and eliminate duplicate data and processes. The webinar will discuss the essential elements of data lineage, how they can be implemented, and the beneficial outcomes of...

Recorded Webinar: Shareholding Disclosure: Are Financial Firms on top of this regulatory challenge?

With MiFID 2, Basel, 871(m) and other more talked about regulations making headlines firms have their hands full. However, as regulators begin to focus on systemic risk the accuracy of disclosures is gaining greater attention. Listen to this webinar for a discussion on the following shareholding disclosure topics: What the shareholder disclosure requirements are, and...

Recorded Webinar: Meeting the high stakes challenge of effective sanctions data monitoring

Identifying securities related to a sanctioned domicile or company is a straightforward concept, but in practice, it is a far more challenging task for compliance professionals. Receiving a list of sanctions isn’t enough. In order to accurately define and maintain your ‘do not trade’ list, you need to identify all the securities related to each...

Recorded Webinar: Meeting the data management challenges of MiFID II

The compliance deadline for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) has been pushed back a year to January 2018, giving financial institutions within its scope an opportunity to take a strategic rather than tactical approach to implementation. But whatever the approach, the scale of the regulation is large and the data management challenge...

Recorded Webinar: Countdown to MiFID II

MiFID II is dominating trading technologists’ thoughts in 2016. What has been achieved so far and what is still to be done? What elements of the regulation are proving most difficult – perhaps algo testing, classification or surveillance? – and how are regulators responding? Listen to the webinar to find out about: State of play on...

Recorded Webinar: GDPR: How to build a data protection framework

Are you ready for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? With the GDPR deadline less than two years away, the pressure is on for organizations to understand how they will comply. Proper data management is part of the answer, but tying these efforts into a data governance framework to manage data protection is key to...