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Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
Despite a one-year delay and other missed deadlines, the order-tracking system known as the Consolidated Audit Trail is back on track as exchanges were due to begin reporting required equities and options data into the CAT on Nov. 15. That message was conveyed by panelists at a recent industry conference. Executives speaking at Tabb Group's FinTech...
03 December 2018 /regulation
Darren Bishop Business Development Specialist at MDX Technology
A famous sportsman and music lover once said, “If you are a serious boxer, fight at the Royal Albert Hall. If you are a footballer, play at Wembley. If a DJ, mix at the Ministry of Sound.” Until recently it was as much about being in an iconic venue as the performance itself. The digital age has changed everything as the new commercial reality dic...
03 December 2018
Simon Barnby CMO at Archax
The capital markets structure of today is firmly rooted in modus operandi that have existed for decades. Although technology has transformed how firms actually trade financial markets and manage their investments, the basic processes remain broadly unchanged – particularly when it comes to raising capital. However, this is all changing as the adve...
29 November 2018
Steve Wilcockson Product Marketing at Quantexa
In the quest for alpha, a growing number of portfolio managers have been exploring the esoteric world of alternative data. Some forms, such as sentiment data based on terabytes of news texts and social media, are well established and have matured to the point of securing devoted followings. Other forms, such as satellite imagery that sheds light on...
14 November 2018
Olivier Deheurles Co-Founder and CTO at Adaptive
Einstein once said that the “measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” In the complex world of financial markets, change is very much afoot, as the major institutions seek to overhaul their legacy trading platforms from an on-premise, to a public cloud environment. But exactly how easy the migration will prove to be is very much up for de...
31 October 2018
David Creer Technology & Innovation Lead at GFT
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) has received significant attention in recent years and is viewed by many as a technology solution that can reduce operational costs and inefficiency across the capital markets. However, until now, DLT has not been able to demonstrate enterprise maturity, nor scalability sufficient to handle real-world financial ...
19 October 2018 /sibos
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Today, receiving and providing accurate data, is king. But rather than firms searching for more data, they are now looking at how best to store, access and manage the data that already exists. How can you tap into your data lake to not only meet regulatory requirements, but to also start innovating by applying that data in new and interesting ways...
03 October 2018 /regulation
Electronic trading in the US Treasury secondary market is evolving and shifting, as non-bank liquidity providers and dealers participate on venues that offer bilateral streaming on a disclosed basis. Non-bank liquidity providers and some dealers are actively participating in venues that support bilateral streaming, according to a Greenwich Associat...
27 August 2018
Brie Lam Regulatory Compliance Consulant at Independent
OTC derivatives market participants are receiving a growing number of requests from their dealers to novate swaps from a one entity to another within the same dealer group. Many of these requests are borne out of regulatory necessity, particularly ring-fencing rules coming into force for large dealers in the UK beginning on 1st January 2019 in co...
08 August 2018 /regulation
Corporate bond investors are seeking operational efficiencies on their fixed income trading desks to lower costs. As the search for bond liquidity across a fragmented credit trading marketplace remains a priority,-side firms are grappling with two distinct workflows – voice-based and electronic – in the $8 trillion corporate bond market. A new re...
03 August 2018 /regulation
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