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How Banks and New Venues Can Create a Future-Proofed Data Business
A 7-Step Process for Banks and New Venues to Create a Future-Proofed Data Business If you are a bank or a new trading venue, you may be aware that there is significant value in the market data that is generated by your business activities. But you may not know how best to monetise that data…
Post-trade ETD – where all the sticking plaster got used!
The fund management industry’s shift to passive funds and embrace of smart-beta funds over the past decade or so has shaved margins to the extreme. In this environment, operational efficiency becomes an existential issue. Across a broad swathe of asset classes, front-office technologies have kept pace with massive changes in market structure driven by regulation…
MiFID II: Industrialising the Response Using UL BRIDGE
Many firms within the scope of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) struggled to meet the regulation’s deadline of January 3, 2018 and are now waking up to the fact that many of the processes put in place for implementation day are not sustainable. To achieve and maintain MiFID II compliance over time…
Feeding the Drive Toward Automation in Trading and Investment Operations
As financial institutions continue to move toward automation, the need to feed systems with accurate and timely data is critical. Consistency of data throughout the transaction workflow is also essential, meaning financial institutions need to choose their data sources carefully. Based on an A-Team Group survey, and sponsored by Thomson Reuters, this paper considers drivers…
Vendor Contract Compliance: The Importance of Getting it Right
Understanding in-house consumption of vendor data and ensuring compliance with multiple contracts for market data and other information can be challenging, particularly for financial institutions managing large volumes of contract clauses across hundreds of suppliers. The contract compliance problem often revolves around institutions’ lack of transparency into actual data usage of information services they pay…
MiFID II Unbundling’s Silver Lining: Leveraging Streaming Big Data Analytics to Differentiate Execution Services
European MiFID II regulation’s unbundling of broker research from execution services raises the question of how execution service providers can differentiate what they offer once research is no longer part of their relationship with buy-side clients. Best-execution provisions and the performance of brokers’ platforms could become the primary differentiator. This raises a follow-up question –…
Leveraging Open-Source Market Data Distribution for Innovation
Global spend on market data runs into tens of billions of dollars a year, yet despite this considerable cost to financial services firms, progress historically has been surprisingly slow to reduce the dominance of a few major incumbent suppliers who share most of this revenue. However, the scene is set for radical change of this…
Predictive Power of Acuity Trading’s Sentiment Indicators
Undertaken by research partner Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and led by Professor Argimiro Arratia, author of Computational Finance: An Introductory Course with R, this research was conducted on Acuity’s eleven news – based public sentiment indices to identify which sentiment indicator or combination of indicators provided the most reliable forecast. This research was commissioned to provide tangible…
How to Create an Agile Trading System
High speed, low latency trading connectivity is no longer enough to differentiate you from your competitors – so how do you add value to your trading systems? How can you create a trading platform that is: Flexible enough to accommodate the transaction lifecycle? Powerful enough to deliver the analytics for better informed trading decisions? Fast…
How to Ensure the Integrity of Your Contributions Data
Do you worry about the validity and integrity of the data you contribute either to benchmarks like Libor or indexes, or to markets like the exchange-like Swap Execution Facilities (SEFs)? Or about the quality of the data you are selling to clients? With a marketplace growing in complexity, and more and more rules coming from…