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Deutsche Börse will be offering a new market data feed, CEF ultra+ Xetra Order by Order.
The new feed will provide insight into the entire visible Xetra order book with unlimited order book depth.
Market Data + Services designed the high-performance data feed for market participants requiring the highest data throughput possible at lowest latency.
The information product, Xetra Order by Order, contains most granular market data for all trading instruments.
“We developed CEF ultra+ Xetra Order by Order for our algo trading community whose strategies and computer-aided processes are based on speed and the completeness of
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), ICI and SIFMA, on behalf of the T+2 Industry Steering Committee (T+2 ISC), has commended the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for finalising rule changes that facilitate the industry’s transformational effort to achieve a two-day settlement cycle (T+2).
The revised SEC rule establishes a standard settlement timeframe of two days for U.S. equity, corporate and municipal bond, and unit investment trust (UIT) trades, providing regulatory certainty to promote a coordinated and effective industry transition to T+2 on 5 September 2017.
Shortening the time it takes to settle trades from the current
Social engineering schemes continue to grow in their sophistication, and phishing campaigns, in particular, are causing concern as they make their way to employee inboxes. These fraudulent email campaigns appear legitimate and take advantage of employees who are often too busy or simply unprepared to identify a scam (disclaimer: phishing is not specific to email; scams occur via phone & other communication methods also).
In either case, if the employee clicks a link, downloads an attachment or provides credentials or financial information to a hacker behind the scenes, it presents a gateway to potentially compromising and very serious scenarios.
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Baymarkets Technology, a Nordic provider of FinTech and RegTech solutions to the global financial services industry, has launched a new financial market solution delivery platform, Clarity.
The Clarity platform is designed to provide agile development of client specific solutions aimed at institutions active in the financial markets, such as banks, brokers, exchanges & trading venues and clearing houses.
Clarity aims to solve several of the challenges that financial institutions are facing today including increased demand for automated workflows, transparency and regulatory compliance.
Designed for use during pre-trade, at-trade, post-trade or across all three, the Clarity platform delivers solutions
RavenPack, a big data analytics provider for financial services, has launched a self-service data and visualisation platform that enables financial professionals to analyse unstructured data for investing and trading and to support risk management and compliance.
The platform allows users to monitor market-moving events, and quickly surface insights by combining a wide variety of data sets, including stock prices, geopolitical events, newsflow, social media activity, payments data, weather, apps, and data from the internet of things.
By using RavenPack’s proprietary sentiment analysis technology, investors can generate predictive insights and evaluate investment opportunities in real time.
The new platform
The Warsaw Stock Exchange (GPW) has extended the fee reduction for market makers of WIG20 futures until 30 September 2017.
Under the promotion, fees have been reduced by between 27 per cent and 41 per cent with respect to volume threshold reached by eligible entity.
From 15,000 to 35,000 contracts the fee is PLN0.50 per contract; and for over 35,000 contracts the fee is PLN0.40 per contract.
In addition, transaction fees executed by market makers in equities outside of WIG20 index will be charged at PLN0.00 until the end of September 2017.
The main objective of the
ZEDRA, an independent fund specialist in trust, corporate and fund services, has placed an order with Sovos – the tax compliance software experts – for its AEOI Reporting solution.
Once implemented, the solution will help ZEDRA meet the demands of its tax, compliance and reporting obligations.
More than 100 tax jurisdictions have committed to the OECD’s global standard on Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) with 54 early adopters undertaking their first exchanges this year. The remaining 47 jurisdictions will exchange in 2018.
The OECD’s AEOI initiative lifts the burden associated with tax compliance with a solution that enables
Australian fund administrator FundBPO – part of the MainstreamBPO group – has appointed wealth management software specialist DST Systems to implement the company’s enterprise workflow solution via a five year license agreement.
FundBPO is the first business around the globe to take up DST’s new Transfer Agency (TA) solution, which combines the company’s business process management platform AWD with pre-configured global best practice TA processes developed from DST’s own business process outsourcing operations for managing TA transactions.
The solution will initially be rolled out across FundBPO’s Australian TA operations to bring global best practices to clients including Equity Trustees,
ServiceMatrix.net, a vendor management hub for institutional investors, asset managers and others, has taken its Pre-trade/Trading Survey live.
Since launching in 2016, ServiceMatrix.net has attracted 4,000+ users who can examine and rate service provision across the front, middle and back offices.
The rating activity has already delivered evaluations of 20 service providers, laying the foundations for delivering valuable feedback on their respective strengths and weaknesses.
Institutional investors, asset managers and others are encouraged to complete two simple questionnaires on Pre-trade/Trading in confidence at www.servicematrix.net to qualify for a complimentary report presenting the most impartial and valuable feedback on
By Alap Shah, Co-Founder and CEO of Sentieo – Investment analysts, by and large, are a pretty smart group. If they can find a better way to do their job, they will. So it’s no surprise that an industry that relies so heavily on information has adopted a number of consumer-grade apps to enhance their workflow. And while better than nothing, this practice can create more problems than it tries to solve.
In the analyst community, note-taking apps such as Evernote and OneNote now often serve as the foundation for the research process, in spite of the fact that neither were designed
