Panel Discussion: The Buy-Side Challenges of Complying with the Market Abuse Regulation

Panelists:  

• Elinor Murray, deputy head of European compliance, Janus Henderson Investors
• Gautam Sachdev, managing director, global head of monitoring & surveillance, Risk Management Group, Macquarie Group
• Bruno Piers de Raveschoot, chief operating officer, RIMES Technologies’ RegTech Division
• Moderator: Victor Anderson, editor-in-chief, Waters and WatersTechnology

Issues covered in this 33-minute webcast include: 

• The current state of play with respect to buy-side firms complying with the central tenets of the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) and what their most acute pain points are. 
• The issues buy-side firms tend to underestimate in terms of complexity when it comes to complying with MAR.  
• The technologies/services available to buy-side firms to assist them on the compliance front.
• The functions/ingredients that a competent MAR platform/service should include.
• How buy-side firms can satisfactorily address the significant data challenges when complying with MAR with respect to market, reference and pricing data and news feeds. 
• The operational and technology challenges associated with accurate and reliable market surveillance – for example looking at various forms of market manipulation, monitoring trading activities across multiple asset classes and markets, and possibly even monitoring activities at the fill level – from an end-user (buy-side) perspective.        
• The extent to which emerging technologies (such as AI) can be used to monitor and detect market abuse.