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Bloomberg's FIGI: A Case of Red Light, Green Light
After the route toward accreditation via the ISO petered out, Bloomberg is vying to establish its reference data standard as a system of record in the US, following a win in Brazil.
Trading Venues Aim to Unlock Value of Green Bonds
Tech providers are looking for ways to increase liquidity in climate bonds, a tiny but fast-growing corner of the fixed-income universe.
EU Consolidated Tape: Support Wanes With Lack of Answers
With regulators slow to answer industry questions relating to how a CT should be built and what it's for, development has slowed.
Bad Clocks Block FX Best-Ex
To get a good deal in fast-moving FX markets, buy-side firms need to know the time. Some of them don’t.
Consolidated Tape Will Not Make Data Cheaper
Market data consumers will still have to buy feeds from the providers, says FIX co-chair.
Industry Steps Up Calls for European Consolidated Tape
Traders in Europe face rising data acquisition costs and increasing regulatory reporting pressures argue that a pan-European consolidated tape is long overdue.
Standards Leaders Set Sights on Upper-Level Ontology for Industry
TC 68 chair sets 2020 goal for industry-wide upper-level semantic ontology.
Northey Replaces McKenna as TC68 Chair
Financial technology and engineering expert Jim Northey will lead the technical committee behind ISO 20022.
Untapped Potential:The Road to Semantic Heaven
There is a movement underway to establish universal standards and the semantic ontologies that make them sing. As the industry approaches semantic utopia, questions remain about what steps need to be taken to get there and whether all the work will be…
Semantics Takes Tech to Tango
Within the symbiotic relationship between technology and standards, Jamie Hyman investigates the exciting technological breakthroughs that are pushing standards toward industry-wide adoption, while the very survival of some technology—namely, blockchain…
Semantics’ Seminal Moment
Data experts testify that right now, the financial services industry is uniquely positioned for semantics breakthroughs that will revolutionize the way data is managed, leading to unprecedented payoffs.
Consolidated Tape Headed for a Regulation Delegation
Whether through an industry initiative or a delegated acts, a consolidated tape provider will be established in Europe, and the industry could lose out if the regulators dictate the terms.
Safra Names Brazil Exchange Vet Castro CIO
Castro has more than 25 years of experience in systems development, markets infrastructure technology and exchange market data.
Light at the End of the Tunnel, But Will Mifid Dark Pool Rules Add Up?
Esma has released the first figures to support Mifid II’s caps on the percentage of equities trading that can be transacted on dark pools. However, critics warn that although the delay has given Esma more time to validate data and clean up queries, the…
FIX Releases New Technical Proposal for Orchestra System
FIX hopes more firms adopt its Orchestra system in a bid to improve operational efficiency of the protocol.
Industry Fears Neutered CAT in 2018
The SEC’s Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) of US equities trade data hit a fresh snag in late 2017, missing a major deadline for reporting, blaming insufficient cyber defenses. As it marches into another crucial year, Tim Bourgaize Murray reports on the…
FIX Releases Cybersecurity Guidelines
The guidelines recommend authentication methods to use TLS protocols with FIX.
UPDATE: Markets, Regulators Not Yet United on Mifid II
Just over a week into Europe’s new financial regulatory regime, Joanne Faulkner assess the key challenges that still lie ahead as market participants and regulators alike grapple with the data and reporting requirements of Mifid II.
FIX Bows V3 of MMT Trade Reporting Tags
FIX Trading Community, the governing body of the FIX Protocol, will publish full documentation for version 3.0 of its MMT standard later this year.
MiFID II is Getting Personal
Sensitive personal information about traders and decision-makers must be forwarded to regulators, leaving the industry seeing red