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A structural shift in how ESMA calibrates the MiFIR transparency regime has handed Approved Reporting Mechanisms (ARMs) a more central role in market data infrastructure than they have held since MiFID II went live in 2018. Under the simplification programme tied to the MiFIR Review, ESMA has discontinued the dedicated reporting flows on which transparency thresholds and volu...

By Edgar Randall, Head of Europe, Dun & Bradstreet.

For years, business leaders have been told that data is their greatest asset. Collect more of it, connect more sources, and better decisions will follow. However, as organisations accelerate their investment in AI, analytics and digital transformation, this long-held assumption is startin...

As the implementation date for the European Union’s AI Act looms, financial institutions are having to put their data estates on a secure footing to ensure they comply with the wide-ranging regulation.

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US regulators may be stepping back from the penalty-led off-channel communications sweeps that defined recent enforcement cycles, but that does not mean firms can ease up on surveillance or record-keeping controls. The shift under new leadership at the SEC and CFTC should be reviewed as a change in enforcement emphasis: fewer technical cases pursued in isolation, and greater ...

The old buy-versus-build debate in trading technology has been declared dead so many times it risks becoming a cliché. But at a recent A-Team Group webinar entitled How to move to a mode...