Broadhead Technologies and Crown Jewel Consultants (CJC) have combined forces and are officially launching a digital contracts solution for market data — Digital Rights for Data Management (DRDM) — based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) that its backers say could change how financial services firms and market data providers manage digital rights and data usage… Read More >>
New Collateral Management Strategies Require New Building Blocks
Post-crisis regulation and competitive market conditions have forever changed the collateral management process for securities trading firms. The push to develop new collateral optimization strategies has often uncovered major problems within a firm’s own systems and processes. Most firms have had to move quickly to revamp their internal systems and craft new collateral management operations… Read More >>
ESMA Leaves Key OTC Questions Unanswered
Although the latest edict from the European Securities Market Authority (ESMA) was supposed to clarify the concept of “traded on a trading venue” (TOTV), there is still some uncertainty around the over the counter (OTC) component of securities transactions. The objective of ESMA’s opinion is to help market participants better understand under which circumstances transactions… Read More >>
