Way Fund Managers, a British Asset Manager dedicated to the operation of collective investment schemes, has selected OTCFin, a financial technology firm specialized in Investment, Risk, and Regulatory Data Management and Reporting, to assist them with their implementation of the PRIIPS regulation. OTCFin will work in partnership with Morningstar to provide a fully integrated PRIIPS KIDs anEPT solution to WAY FUND MANAGERS that includes both the PRIIPS calculations and the printing of the factsheets.

OTCFin will focus on:

When crypto-currencies really become widely used, what could it mean for central banks, mobile telecoms companies and reserve currencies?

Nobody knows how many people hold accounts with bitcoin and other crypto-currencies. However, the total is almost certainly no more than several tens of millions, or about 1% of the global population at most.

Financial IT interviews Stéphane Nouy, Managing Director of Moneythor at FinTech Connect Live 2017

ESMA recently issued guidance on the treatment of commodity derivatives traded on third-country venues in the context of the MiFID ll position limit regime. Prior to this is was not clear if commodity derivatives traded on a third-country exchange would be considered economically equivalent OTC (“EEOTC”) contracts and would consequently fall under the position limit regime.

The last year has been a significant 12 months in the short history of cyber security, with headline security breaches such as Uber and a scramble to come up with new approaches, particularly as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation comes into force next May.

2018 will see further developments in this dynamic field that will affect almost every organisation on the planet. Here are some predictions for the next 12 months:  

1. Innovation will help overcome the continuing cyber security talent drought