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Recorded Webinar: Low-Latency Wireless: What’s Hot! Financial Markets Tune In To Wireless

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. Microwave and other wireless technologies mark the next step in the progression of ultra-low latency trading. However, these technologies are complex and new to the financial markets, which have exacting requirements for speed and reliability. Listen to this educational webinar to learn about: Financial...

Recorded Webinar: The Data Challenge in Market Surveillance

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. Since the start of the financial crisis, market surveillance has been a high priority issue across capital markets. Buy-side and sell-side firms have stepped up their game, and so, too, have regulators. The need for accurate, real-time surveillance will continue to escalate as market...

Recorded Webinar: FATCA – The time to act is now

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. The US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act – aka FATCA – raised eyebrows when its final regulations requiring foreign financial institutions (FFIs) to report US accounts to US tax authorities were published last year, but with the exception of a few modifications the legislation...

Recorded Webinar: The Global LEI System – Putting the Pieces in Place

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. The Regulatory Oversight Committee has sustained development of the global legal entity identifier system – or GLEIS – over the summer months, most recently endorsing pre-Local Operating Units in China, Argentina, Poland and Italy to make a total of 13 units worldwide that are...

Recorded Webinar: Dealing with Reality – How to Ensure Data Quality in the Changing Entity Identifier Landscape

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. The development of the global legal entity identifier standard has put a focus on entity and customer data. Financial institutions are struggling with a range of quality of issues. The emergence of several so-called pre-LEIs has added complexity to the situation. How are firms...

Recorded Webinar: Valuations – Toward Real-Time Evaluated Pricing

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. Risk and regulatory imperatives are demanding access to the latest portfolio information. And the front-office increasingly wants up-to-date valuations of hard-to-price securities. The developments are driving a push toward real-time evaluated pricing capabilities, with pricing teams seeking to provide access to valuations on demand....

Recorded Webinar: Market Data / Market Access Platforms – Get What You Need While Reducing Cost and Complexity

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. Due to the fundamental shifts in today’s capital markets, trading firms are constantly seeking ways to obtain and effectively manage the market data they need from leading venues. Although there are many approaches to managing market data infrastructure, what is the most effective way...

Recorded Webinar: Practical Applications of the Global LEI – Client On-Boarding and Beyond

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. With the March ‘launch’ of the global legal entity identifier (LEI), the marketplace now officially has a standard it can use for managing entity data. Post-Credit Crunch, the lack of such a standard has forced firms to embark on their own initiatives to create...

Recorded Webinar: Managing Valuations Data for Optimal Risk Management

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. Our panel of experts delves into how to ensure valuations data quality for optimal risk management. Post-Credit Crisis, valuations have emerged as a key data set for addressing risk of exposure to illiquid and other hard-to-value over-the-counter instruments. Regulators are pressing for more transparency...

Recorded Webinar: Preparing For Primetime – How to Benefit from the Global LEI

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. Much has been made of the initiative to create a global standard legal entity identifier (LEI). Its backers have taken great pains to explain how the new identifier will improve transparency and contribute to the ongoing regulatory war against systemic risk. After months of...