Evolution of The Light Bulb and The Jobless Future
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REMIT documents: Open letter, transaction reporting FAQ and others
ACER has released several new documents over the past few days, including an updated transaction reporting FAQ document which was released today and can be found here. Yesterday, ACER released this second open letter on data quality. The letter gives many examples of items typically reported incorrectly. In addition, it indicates that those who do … Continue reading
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AcadiaSoft Appoints Lee McCormack as Head of Collateral Product Management and Professional Services
Industry Veteran to Oversee Growth and Development for AcadiaSoft’s CollateralManager
AcadiaSoft Inc. announced the appointment of Lee McCormack as Head of Collateral Product Management and Professional Services. He will be responsible for extending AcadiaSoft’s CollateralManager service to new customers and further expanding its capabilities for buy-side firms.
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EMIR: New Q+A and movement in REFIT
Updated EMIR Questions and Answers document ESMA yesterday released this updated version of the questions and answer document relating to EMIR. The key answer of interest is TR 40 on page 96, which provides updated answers on how to handle a change of LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) on an entity. The scenarios on page 107 … Continue reading
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Regulatory consequences – MiFID II and others
Some consequences of MiFID II and other regulatory activity, such as Brexit is beginning to be felt in several quarters: This article of the Reuters web site reports that the CEO of TP ICAP has left due to a profit warning. Much of the reduction is blamed on costs due to MiFID II, Brexit and … Continue reading
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Despite Today’s Great Employment, The Future is Jobless
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Derivatives Today: Navigating the Path of Uncertainty [London Event]
- Date: Wed, Nov 14 at 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
- Venue: 200 Aldersgate, St. Pauls, London EC1A 4HD, United Kingdom
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Bank of England and Financial Times Schools blogging competition: And the winner is…
….Tyler Curtis from Hall Cross Academy, Doncaster, whose winning post, “How lab-grown burgers could feed the world”, is published today on Bank Underground and in the FT. You can also read the post selected by our judges as the runner-up, “Facebook bank anyone?” by Nicola Medicoff of St Paul’s Girls School, Hammersmith.
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LEI use – speech by ESMA
Yesterday Verena Ross, ESMA Executive Director gave this speech on the use of Legal Entity Identifiers(LEI), in particular with reference to MiFID II. This follows the announcement last week that LEIs must be used for all reporting from 3rd July, the 6 month anniversary of the start of MiFID II, following an initial extension (see here). … Continue reading
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JWG engages in partnership with BMO to help drive regulatory change management
JWG are pleased to announce a partnership with BMO Capital Markets (BMO) where it will provide BMO access to its AI-powered, natural-language processing change management system — RegDelta. Ten years after the financial crisis, the financial services industry continues to face a changing and complex landscape, and this is particularly true for capital markets. RegDelta™
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