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Viewpoint: Aparajita Dalal: Derivative Exchange Notifications

At a moment’s notice Tracking exchange notifications that affect listed derivatives reference data is laborious. Overlooking notices is easily done and can be costly. Aparajita...

Viewpoint: Flash crash: a market microstructure

Every few years, a flash crash makes the headlines in spectacular style. Yet these rapid stock market plunges are not in fact rare occurrences....

Viewpoint: Jourik de Lange, SmartStream

A rate by any other name MiFID II imposed extensive new reporting requirements, with the aim of injecting greater transparency into financial markets. The...

MiFID II transaction reporting – Jethro MacDonald

How can firms help ensure reports are complete and accurate? Regulators’ tolerance towards MiFID II failings appears to be waning, so ensuring MiFID II...

STP: Mind the gap

Achieving straight-through-processing (STP) has preoccupied the finance sector for decades. Yet it remains an elusive goal. Stephen Koch, Global Head of Data Quality and...