Following the publication of the European Commission’s proposed amendment to the ESA Regulation to give more supervising authority to ESMA, EBA and EIOPA, the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) has expressed its surprise and concern about the new
Equities liquidity provider XTX Markets intends to opt-in as a Systematic Internaliser (SI) following the implementation of MiFID II. Alex Gerko, Co-CEO of XTX Markets, says: “XTX has become a leading liquidity provider across lit EU equities markets. Although uncertainties
Guernsey’s Private Investment Fund regime was launched in November last year and has so far proved to be a popular route to launch a private fund. As the regime approaches its first anniversary, Annette Alexander (pictured) of Carey Olsen, on
NPL, the UK’s National Measurement Institute, is expanding its precise timing service, NPLTime, through a distribution agreement with QuantHouse, an independent provider of trading and infrastructure solutions and market data services to the quant trading community. NPLTime® provides a precise
IHS Markit, a specialist in critical information, analytics and solutions, has partnered with six leading securities finance market participants as part of its ongoing effort with Pirum Systems to build a solution to address Securities Finance Transaction Regulation (SFTR) reporting
Bloomberg Data Reporting Services Limited (BDRSL) has received authorisation from the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for its Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM) – effective 3 January 2018. Under MiFID II, investment firms will be required to submit transaction reports containing
Morgan Stanley & Co (MSCO) is to pay USD500,000 to settle CFTC charges over failing to diligently supervise the reconciliation of exchange and clearing fees with the amounts it ultimately charged customers for certain transactions on the CME Group, ICE
LedgerX, the New York-based institutional trading and clearing platform for digital currencies, has been granted US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) approval to operate the first US federally-regulated exchange and clearing house for derivatives contracts settling in digital currencies. LedgerX
New York-based PortfolioScience and Eze Software have joined forces to offer the marketplace a unique solution for fund managers: pre-trade compliance rules based on market risk. The RiskAPI service, developed by PortfolioScience, is a fully hosted and customisable risk solution
By George Ralph, RFA – The alternative investment sector at large is well aware of the imminent GDPR and MiFID ii regulations which are coming into effect next year, and about how firms will require some fairly serious system refreshes
