Skyler Technology’s launch of its C3 Liquidity Discovery Solution for the European equities marketplace takes the data aggregation of its flagship product in the US and adds aggregation capabilities tailored to the specific nuances of Europe. The system is aimed at allowing firms to gain greater insight into market liquidity as it fragments under the new EU Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID).

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Telco GemaTech has launched a new telephony recovery and recording solution aimed at the dealing room. The system offers to help firms comply with MIFID’s business continuity requirements, as well as new voice recording regulations, such as those due to be introduced by the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) next March (MiFID Monitor, March 2008).

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Counterparty data specialist Avox says three French clients - Calyon, CM CIC Securities and Société Général Corporate and Investment Banking – have deployed its MiFID Classification Service.

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Townsend Analytics says its strategy to apply in Europe from day one of MiFID the data integration and display capabilities it has developed to enable users of its RealTick EMS to handle multiple market destinations in the US market is proving a great success. The vendor also reports that integrating data from Boat has given it a “huge lift”, and enabled it to see “strong growth in European deployment of RealTick EMS” even before MiFID.

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Nine months after tasking new European capital markets head Ian Warford with figuring out its MiFID stance, Microsoft has gone public with a “mix and match” solution suite comprising systems from a variety of providers that is designed to offer complete or partial MiFID infrastructures for European banks. The company counters charges of being fashionably late to the MiFID party with the assertion that familiarity with Microsoft technology among financial services firms, and its ease of integration, will enable its MiFID solutions to be implemented more quickly – and at a lower cost – than alternatives.

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ICM Computer Group has opened a new £30 million, 1,700-position disaster recovery and business continuity centre in Essex, more than doubling the company’s previous capacity. ICM says demand, due to factors including MiFID, other major market regulations and the possibility of new security threats, is rocketing, and it is planning to open another similarly sized centre in eight months’ time.

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ICM Computer Group has opened a new £30 million, 1,700-position disaster recovery and business continuity centre in Essex, more than doubling the company’s previous capacity. ICM says demand, due to factors including MiFID, other major market regulations and the possibility of new security threats, is rocketing, and it is planning to open another similarly sized centre in eight months’ time.

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With a newly released white paper and a briefing to analysts this month, Tibco Software is using the onset of MiFID as a significant thread in its assault on the financial services marketplace. The California-based company – slogan: ‘The Power of Now’ – believes it can leverage its pedigree in real-time information systems and enterprisewide data management to offer clients solutions for a range of their MiFID compliance headaches.

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