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Interdealer broker Tullett Prebon will deploy London Stock Exchange’s MillenniumIT trading platform under a multi-year deal to expand its electronic broking solutions into key market areas.
Custodian bank Northern Trust has been ramping up its efforts over the last 12 months to improve transparency for its end clients around fair valuation measurement, says Judson Baker, derivatives product manager at the bank. To this end, this week it has launched a new IFRS Valuation Toolkit aimed at providing a broad range of data to help its global custody clients meet their IFRS 7 financial reporting disclosure requirements.
The level of uncertainty in the industry due to the ongoing debate within the regulatory community with regards to new risk management reporting requirements has proved to be both a blessing and a curse to those in the data business. Panellists at this month’s FS Club agreed that the industry is being forced to take data more seriously but there are significant gaps around risk related regulation that may prove to be pitfalls in the near future.

Panel session “The Low Latency Arms Race,” from the March 23 FIX EMEA Trading Conference held in London. A-Team Group’s Editor in Chief, Andrew Delaney talks with: Tim Billinge, NYSE Technologies; Donal Byrne, Corvil; Scott Kennedy, Thomson Reuters; and Bob McDowell, Tower Group.

Panel session, “How can the market FIX the consolidated tape concerns?,” from the March 23 FIX EMEA Trading Conference held in London. A discussion charied by Chris Pickles, featuring: Alasdair Haynes, Chi-X Europe; Jarod Hillman, LSE; Stephen McGoldrick, Deutsche Bank; and Guy Sears, Investment Management Association.
As part of its wider bid to take on the reference data utility space (see initial launch here), SmartStream Technologies has this week launched an on demand portal for access to verified and cleansed exchange and data provider documentation. John Mason, CEO of DClear, explains to A-Team Insight that although the Data Dictionary will form an integral part of the vendor’s overall Reference Data Utility, it is now available as a standalone structured information portal solution for those seeking to standardise, quantify and accelerate the translation of documentation.

Panel session “FIXadtl: generating efficiency gains and cost savings for algo traders,” from the March 23 FIX EMEA Trading Conference held in London. A discussion charied by Rick Labs, CL&B Capital Management, and featuring: Rustam Lam, RealTick; Scott Deptris, Portware; Toby Corballis, Rapid Addition; Andrew Bowley, Nomura; and Scott Atwell, American Century Investments.
During its most recent firms forum on the subject of liquidity reporting, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) confirmed that it is planning a soft launch for liquidity risk reporting on its online regulatory reporting system, Gathering Better Regulatory Information Electronically (Gabriel). As noted by the FSA in January (see here), firms are being required to test the submission process for their data items to the Gabriel system, but the regulator has backed off from pushing data quality tests by delaying these for another three months.
Bats Europe has added a so-called Recycle functionality to its pan-European smart order routing (SOR) service. The move aims to offer market participants cost-effective pan-European SOR capability through a single connection.


















