Partnership Will Facilitate Eikon and Symphony Links Securities trading could get a little easier with the integration to come between Thomson Reuters’ Eikon system and the Symphony Workflow Platform. The two have decided to work together to facilitate the sharing of Eikon objects such as charts, news and data via Symphony’s messaging and collaboration platform,… Read More >>
Global LEI Overseer Officially Blesses DTCC’s GMEI
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) utility subsidiary of post-trade infrastructure provider DTCC has gotten an official accreditation from a global overseer that will boost the number of LEIs in the system and bolster the initiative, says Ron Jordan, managing director, chief data officer at the DTCC. In fact, the blessing from the Global Legal Entity… Read More >>
ESMA Urges Action on MiFID II Data Reporting
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued a briefing note on the transaction reporting requirements for the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), which sets out a detailed timetable of the deadlines. The Briefing Paper refers to the technical requirements and templates for data reporting, which ESMA published in October 2016. The… Read More >>
Droit to Grow Operations With $16M Cash Injection
Droit Financial Technologies, an over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives trading systems vendor, is expanding operations to foster the acceptance of its real-time, decision-making engine for point-of-execution compliance. This is possible because of a $16 million, Series A minority investment via Goldman Sachs, Pivot Investment Partners and Wells Fargo. A principal trading firm, DRW, also participated in the… Read More >>
