Regulation
Burton-Taylor: Risk, Regulations Drive Data Spend
Annual spend on financial market risk-related data peaked at $2.52 billion in 2013, equating to roughly 10 percent the $25.77 billion spent each year on market data worldwide, and is growing by 5.74 percent year-on-year as a result of increased…
Calypso Upgrades Repository Interface For EMIR Reporting
Software and services provider adds new data fields and functionality to its interface to the DTCC's trade repository so it can be used for both EMIR and Dodd-Frank Act trade reporting
Bloomberg Integrates EMIR Reporting into Terminal Service
The data vendor has integrated EMIR reporting functionality into its terminal service, will generate unique trade identifiers and help users report outstanding trades
Europe Takes First Steps Toward Electronic Derivatives Trading
With provisional agreement on the Mifid II text by European political authorities, electronic execution of derivatives is set to spread over the Atlantic Ocean in the near future. In terms of equivalence, interoperability, and mutual recognition, how…
FIX Eyes ESMA Talks, User Participation in MMT
Trading standards body FIX Trading Community plans to boost sell-side participation in developing the Market Model Typology trade reporting tag standard, and to broaden the coverage of the standard to new areas, after absorbing the effort under its…
MMT Post-Trade Standard Joins FIX Family
By being under the administration of the FIX Trading Community, it is hoped the Market Model Typology will become more widely used and will benefit from further development
SIX Service Monitors Instruments Subject to Fatca Witholding
The data services provider will use its corporate actions processing capabilities to provide a constantly updated view of instruments that are in scope for tax withholding under the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act
Short-Term Pain, Long-Term Gain
European legal entity identifier requirements have created a lot of work for data management practitioners. But HSBC’s Hany Choueiri tells Nicholas Hamilton that in the long term, the identifier can help firms manage big data, make a success of data…
FIX ‘Adopts’ MMT Post-Trade Data Standards
Standards body FIX Trading Community-the organization formerly known as FIX Protocol Ltd, which governs the development of the FIX Protocol-has adopted the Market Model Typology post-trade reporting initiative as a FIX standard, adding support for MMT in…
Keep Calm and Route Order Flow
Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Our American readers will, of course, only be concerned with one sporting result this weekend: Seattle’s thrashing of Denver in New Jersey last night. For those of us on this side of the Atlantic,…
Calypso Unveils DTCC Interface to Support EMIR Reporting
San Francisco-based Calypso Technology has released an interface to the Depository Trust and Clearing Corp’s (DTCCs) Global Trade Repository (GTR) service, a repository holding global OTC derivatives transaction data, to assist firms with their European…
James Rundle: There and Back Again
In January, European political authorities provisionally agreed on a package of reforms to securities markets that will have deep consequences for financial services firms. As the technical work can now get underway, James looks at the challenges ahead…
Nicholas Hamilton: Surprise, Surprise
The nominations for the board of directors of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation include some surprises and clues about the form the Central Operating Unit might take, writes Nicholas Hamilton.
Max Bowie: This Valentine’s Day, Why Not … Break Up?
Any recipe for success involves a combination of ingredients. But sometimes recipes taste better when a few toxic ingredients are removed. And with everyone looking to be disruptive in 2014, Max notes that you don’t make a disruption omelet without…
CFTC Certifies MAT Submissions from Tradeweb, trueEx
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced that made available to trade (MAT) submissions from both trueEx and Tradeweb have been certified, meaning those instruments must be traded on swap execution facilities (SEFs) from February.
SEC Chair White Emphasizes Technology Agenda for 2014
Mary Jo-White, the chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has expanded on the new technical capabilities of the regulator, in her first speech of the year.
SIX Chooses Avox to Map LEIs to Securities Database
A new partnership between the two data vendors means SIX will be able to provide entity-level data to its clients, based on instrument-level requests
Are You Sure You Don't Need A Pre-LEI?
Some industry participants have fallen into the trap of assuming requirements to report pre-legal entity identifiers under EMIR will not affect them, and they are running out of time to put things right
Pre-LEI Waiting Times Range From 24 Hours to Three Weeks as EMIR Looms
With implementation of EMIR weeks away, the production time for mandatory pre-legal entity identifiers varies between the pre-local operating units that issue the codes and depends on a number of factors
Fund Managers Gear Up for AIFMD Costs, Compliance
With only six months to go until the July 22 deadline for fund managers to comply with the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, Marina Daras looks at how the industry is gearing up in the homestretch.
Indian Regulator Plans HFT Conference
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has announced plans for a two-day conference next week, aimed at discussing the market risks associated with algorithmic and high-frequency trading (HFT).
CFTC Approves Bloomberg's Swap Data Repository
Bloomberg has received provisional regulatory approval from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to operate a swap data repository (SDR).
Derivatives Trading Firms Weigh Audio Recording Approaches
Thanks to the latest Dodd–Frank provision in which derivatives transactions will be more closely monitored, many US traders will now have their conversations recorded. Jake Thomases investigates how that recording will be done and what will happen to the…