A “new era of global regulatory divergence” is developing, following years of “intense scrutiny by regulators around the globe.” That intense scrutiny, which lasted approximately a decade, included “synchronization” of financial standards and rules put in place across the European Union and elsewhere in the aftermath of the financial tremors and structural shocks that shook… Read More >>
Buy Side Can Access Fenics UST via QuantHouse
New API & QuantLink Access via QuantHouse QuantHouse, a provider of market data services, an algo trading platform and infrastructure solutions, can now offer its buy-side clients “quick and streamlined access to normalized real-time and historical data to trade the U.S. cash treasuries market” via a new link to the Fenics USTreasuries platform. The… Read More >>
FINRA Spotlights Emerging Issues for 2019
Risk monitoring and examination priorities are the focus of the annual letter produced recently by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). That annual FINRA letter highlights new priorities for 2019 and identifies “areas of ongoing concern.” The regulatory authority specifies that the 2019 letter’s “focus on materially new issues may help firms better identify those… Read More >>
CAPIS Acquires FinTech Securities from Innovest
Capital Institutional Services, Inc. (CAPIS), an institutional securities broker/dealer, has completed its acquisition of Financial Technology Securities in a bid to strengthen CAPIS’s present in the bank and trust services space. The acquisition of FinTech Securities from Innovest Systems took effect Jan. 2, 2019, making the Atlanta, Ga.-based broker/dealer a fully-owned subsidiary of CAPIS, officials… Read More >>
CME to Drop NEX Branding Post-Acquisition
CME to Keep BrokerTec, EBS, Traiana & TriOptima Brands The CME Group as expected has completed all the steps for the acquisition of NEX Group, first announced in March, but will discontinue the NEX branding while keeping the names for the mark1ets and “Optimisation” businesses such as BrokerTec, EBS, Traiana and TriOptima. “The combined company… Read More >>
Synechron Launches 11 A.I. Data Science Accelerator Centers
Synechron to Focus on Financial Services & Insurance Sectors Synechron, Inc., a financial services consultant and IT services provider, reports the launch of artificial intelligence (AI) data science accelerators for financial services, banking and insurance firms. The new accelerators “help financial services and insurance firms solve complex business challenges by discovering meaningful relationships between events… Read More >>
BlackRock & Thomson Reuters Partner to Launch ESG Fund
BlackRock’s ETF Will Follow a New Thomson Reuters Index BlackRock, considered the world’s largest asset manager, and Thomson Reuters, a provider of market data, trading systems and news, have combined forces on an exchange traded fund (ETF) that helps investors support environmental, social and governance (ESG) targets via companies in developed and emerging markets. The… Read More >>
CFTC’s Whistleblower Awards Total More than $45 Million
Whistleblower Program Experiences High-Volume Response The CFTC has handed out more than $45 million in multiple whistleblower awards, reflecting the higher volumes and greater complexity of incoming whistleblower submissions, officials say. In fact, the regulator last month acknowledged “an award of approximately $30 million to one whistleblower and the first award was made by the… Read More >>
IBM & CLS Collaborate on DLT Network PoC
IBM and CLS to Work on DLT Proof-of-Concept Effort Computing giant IBM is collaborating with CLS, a market infrastructure group delivering settlement, processing, and data solutions, on a proof of concept (PoC) effort for LedgerConnect, described as a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform for the financial services industry. The LedgerConnect offering to come is intended… Read More >>
FlexTrade, SmartStream Take On MiFID II
FlexTrade Integrates SmartStream RDU for MiFID II FlexTrade and SmartStream report the integration of SmartStream’s reference data utility (RDU) with FlexTrade’s execution management system (EMS). The integration “offers mutual clients the ability to embed SmartStream RDU’s Systematic Internaliser (SI) registry information directly into the send order ticket, providing … clarity on counterparty SI status, prior… Read More >>
