Regulation
Definition of a trading venue: Reg review risks ensnarling tech vendors
Industry participants are divided over the definition of a trading venue and how regulators should revise the regulatory framework.
This Week: Bloomberg, VoxSmart–GreenKey, EDM Council, Northern Trust, Anna-DSB, and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
Phase five margin queues spur calls for custody revamp
Custodians are being urged to update “antiquated technology” ahead of a three-fold jump in phase six initial margin onboarding.
Waters Wrap: The expanding battle over reference data identifiers
Bloomberg, Broadridge, and Finra have all recently made news in the world of standards and identifiers. Anthony looks at some of the questions the reporters at WatersTechnology will be asking going forward.
Bank consortium led by SocGen seeks to cure post-trade data ills
Project led by Societe Generale that uses privacy-enhancing technologies to solve data management issues hopes to sign up five banks and launch as a legal entity.
Waters Wrap: Cloud, AI, Interop: The evolutions driving fixed-income progress
Anthony believes these advancements will provide the opening for Big Tech firms to created outsized influence that will change financial technology forever.
IM phases five and six collide as buy side delays readiness
More than 1,000 segregated accounts for uncleared margin may still need to be opened post-deadline.
Confusion remains over SEC’s market data efforts
Jo ponders some of the important pieces of the regulator’s National Market System modernization that remain obscure.
SEC’s CT Plan timetable is ‘unrealistic’
Implementing governance structure for new US public equities datafeeds within a year is highly unlikely, say industry observers.
UnaVista SFTR closure casts doubt on viability of reg reporting
The decision to shutter the service is another blow to the industry and the business case of reg reporting under SFTR.
Market data hopefuls await deadline with bated breath
August 9 is when regulators could approve the governance plan for the new system of datafeeds in the US. Jo says this would be an important step forward for those hoping to create new businesses under the regime.
Capitolis to acquire LMRKTS
Deal for multilateral compression provider latest in wave of post-trade tie-ups, as SA-CCR bites
This Week: Bloomberg, Broadridge, Rimes, Glue42, and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
EBA to consult on banks’ machine learning use
The watchdog will set out a new stance on ML-based capital models at a time of conflicting guidance from other supervisors.
Waters Wrap: On outages, teamwork & greed (And ESG innovation & consultants)
Anthony examines a proposed protocol in Europe that would help keep liquidity flowing if there’s a major exchange outage. He also discusses innovation in the realm of ESG, and Esma’s new data analytics platform.
Goldman tackles climate risk controls
Lender joins other banks in translating physical and transition threats into controls framework
UBS AM builds model for quantifying greening of heavy industry
The asset manager's quant research arm, QED, has published a framework for valuing companies in industries like cement or steel that transition to more sustainable tech.
Accenture wins contract for Esma’s big data analytics project
The consultancy will provide on-demand tooling for analyzing data collected from Data Reporting Service Providers.
Rimes shutters market surveillance business amid strategy overhaul
The data management firm is undergoing a multi-year program to unravel its surveillance business, as it looks to throw its weight behind its flagship data offerings.
ASX automates corporate actions with issuer forms
The exchange group has completed the multi-year program aimed at standardizing data capture and message delivery using the ISO format.
AML models face explainability challenges
Data gaps and potential biases must be accounted for in approaches to tackling money laundering.
New entrants want to feed bond market’s hunger for data
In the absence of a consolidated tape for debt securities in the EU, vendors with different approaches to distributing fixed-income market data are emerging.
Now that Oats is scrapped, regulators will have to (Cat)ch up
Retiring Oats is a milestone on the long and winding road to Cat implementation, but the SEC must make some major decisions in a very short timeframe before the Cat journey is over.
EC drafting proposal for derivatives consolidated tape
Commission official says beta version ready for testing in 2023 will also include equities, bonds and ETFs