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Bats Trading Chief Joe Ratterman has written to customers in an apparent attempt to quell concerns that confidential information is transmitted over the electronic exchange’s market data feeds.
At issue, it seems, is the handling of order ID values for hidden order trade events, for which Bats is introducing new integration capabilities. “This new flexibility,” says Ratterman, “will allow each of our customers to decide how their hidden order trade events are reflected in the Bats market data feeds.”
As lawyers in the case of Ipreo Holdings and bigdough.com against Goldman Sachs and a number of unidentified Goldman Sachs employees prepare for the first court conference on the matter on 8 July, it looks unlikely that the case will be settled quickly or out of court.
Following months of negotiations (see our coverage from earlier this month here), the European Commission has finally published a draft mandate to negotiate a personal data protection agreement between the European Union and the United States when cooperating to fight terrorism or crime. European politicians, including Viviane Reding, the EU’s Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, are keen that bulk data transfers of sensitive customer data across the Swift network for counter terrorism purposes be avoided and that increased protections be introduced for this data, bringing it into line with US legislation.
The Institute of International Finance (IIF), which includes members from the world’s largest financial institutions and is headed by chief exec of Deutsche Bank Josef Ackerman, has called for the establishment of a G20 led task force to tackle the issues involved in establishing internationally agreed cross border resolution agreements. The crack team will need entity data management specialists in order to get to grips with the “difficult technical challenges involved in putting in place an effective international resolution framework”, notes the group in a recent paper.
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Thomson Reuters has unveiled a ‘joined up’ approach to enterprise data management, creating a platform framework that embraces both real-time and non-real-time data. The so-called Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform draws on the long-serving front-office Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) that supports real time data, the existing securities master product, Reuters Reference Data System (RRDS), and new technology that the company acquired through the purchase of data management specialist m35 a year or so ago .
Electronic Trading, Low Latency and Market Data
Pohjola’s implementation of Portware; UBS rollout of FX Trader; Toro selects Orc; Private equity buyout of Interactive Data; D’Arcy on possible SunGard tie up; Corvil latency upgrade; Tibco’s FTL messaging; NYSE Euronext data centre update.
Reference Data, Risk and Regulation IT
Citi’s counterparty data project progress; CESR’s new non-equity transparency data requirements; Asset Control’s integration focus; SGSS’s valuations concerns; GlobeOp’s rollout of S&P’s valuations; LSE’s transaction reporting service move on to UnaVista; RBC’s investment in risk management; UK FSA’s move to XML for liquidity risk reporting; Razor Risk Technologies’ recent upgrade.
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Six investment banks have joined forces with Markit to report volumes of cash equity trades crossed in their automated crossing systems, or dark liquidity pools. The aim of the initiative is to improve post-trade transparency in European over-the-counter (OTC) equity markets.



















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