Cappitech has formed an alliance with IHS Markit to deliver the IHS Markit Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) solution. The IHS Markit SFTR solution will integrate Cappitech’s award-winning platform Capptivate to offer a solution that will meet the industry’s SFTR
Thomson Reuters has integrated and enhanced its robust research capabilities on its flagship financial desktop Eikon to help financial institutions manage impending MiFID II research unbundling requirements, set to be implemented in January 2018. These are part of a series of
The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) and the International Capital Market Association’s (ICMA) Asset Management and Investors Council (AMIC) have published a joint paper analysing how and why leverage is used in investment funds in Europe, how firms
After initiating a Brexit solution that would have been MiFID based and anchored in Luxembourg, Laven Group has announced it is not pursuing this as a viable solution.
By Daniel Viola, Sadis & Goldberg – In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Dodd-Frank Act), overhauling the financial regulatory system. Congress required the US Securities & Exchange Commission
The private equity industry is currently navigating a number of challenges in addition to the Covid-19 pandemic, which the whole world is facing. As regulation and political will around environment, social and governance (ESG) factors grows, PE firms are coming
Q&A with Marcus Peter & Irina Stoliarova, GSK Stockman What are the key trends currently driving growth and development within Luxembourg’s funds industry? In 2019 Luxembourg fund industry revealed significant growth that was not slowed down in the first three
There are several macroeconomic factors which support further growth in the private equity, venture capital and real estate space in Luxembourg. Although events like Covid-19, the Brexit transition, US elections and the US-China trade war may damage this potential, managers
Charles River Development has formalised a partnership agreement with the London Stock Exchange’s UnaVista to automate transaction reporting under the European Union’s Markets in Financial Directive II (MiFID II). Under the partnership, the firms’ mutual clients are able to use
Merrill Lynch International (MLI) has been fined GBP34,524,000 by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for failing to report 68.5 million exchange traded derivative transactions between 12 February 2014 and 6 February 2016. This is the first enforcement action against a
