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Only Reason for Time
According to Albert Einstein “…is so that everything doesn’t happen at once”. Consider yourself in the shoes of a timekeeper of athletic events. The stakes are high, consequently the choice of tools for the job imperative. Endurance or sprint? This question is at the forefront when it comes to providing the appropriate accuracy and granularity…
MiFID II: Rewriting the Code
Demanding regulation is transforming order and execution management systems into detail-driven trading engines The capacity of order management systems (OMSs) to support buy-side desks was challenged at the Barcelona-based Fixed Income Leaders Summit 2015 on 14 October by John Greenan, a front office systems specialist, who suggested that some providers “had not kept pace” with…
Smart Machines: A $10 Trillion Capacity Windfall or a $10 Trillion Jobs Deficit?
By Adam Devine, VP Product Marketing, WorkFusion Predictable, monotonous data work costs the United States, Canada and Europe over $10 trillion of human intelligence each year, and that number is growing. You know the kind of work: a data analyst sitting in front of two screens, one flashing an endless stream of unstructured content, the…
Perseus Acknowledges MiFID II Time Synchronisation Standards as Fair and Reasonable
Changes made to recommendations on time synchronisation in the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) latest technical standards for MiFID II have been welcomed by Perseus, a provider of managed services including PrecisionSync time services, and recognised as being fair and reasonable. While previous ESMA recommendations suggested nanosecond clock synchronisation for electronic trading, the standards…
Final ESMA Report on MiFID II and MiFIR Technical Standards Recommends XML and ISO 20022 for Regulatory Data Reporting
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final report on Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) for Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR). The report covers many aspects of the directive and regulation, and concludes debate over market data reporting, recommending that transaction and instrument reference…
A-Team Data Management Summit: Challenges and Opportunities of Regulation
Regulatory compliance deadlines in January 2016 and 2017 are a challenge for data managers, but also an opportunity to develop data management strategies that deliver business benefits. A panel session at next week’s A-Team Data Management Summit in London will debate these issues and look at how firms are getting ready to meet the deadlines….
LSEG and Boat Prepare MiFID II Trade Reporting Solution
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Boat Services have joined forces to develop a MiFID II trade reporting solution, but plans may not end there with Boat suggesting the platform could be built out to deliver a utility-type service supporting a number of regulations. Initially, LSEG and Boat have signed heads of terms that will…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: MiFID II and the Coming Post-Trade Revolution
Word has it that ESMA is serious about its intention to publish its final guidance on MiFID II this month. With a possible (unconfirmed) publication date of September 24 doing the rounds, the market is bracing itself for a vigorously more prescriptive approach than under MiFID I, with less wiggle room for divergence from the…
smartTrade Secures Contract Wins in London and Japan
By Zoe Schiff smartTrade Technologies has secured contract wins in London and Japan. In London, the trading solutions supplier will build and host an e-trading platform for R5FX, a new liquidity pool dedicated to emerging market currencies trading. In Japan, smartTrade will host its LiquidityFX low-latency connectivity platform for Gaitame.com, an online foreign exchange company….
Corvil Webinar Discusses the Problems of Packet Loss and Some Potential Solutions
By Zoe Schiff Packet loss caused by network congestion or packet corruption can make trading strategies irrelevant and cause unwanted costs, but these problems can be resolved by using tools that provide visibility of packet loss and its effects. A recent webinar presented by James Wiley, director of technical product marketing at network data analytics…