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Herzliya, September 20, 2018 – Cappitech, a leading provider of regulatory reporting and intelligence technology for the financial services industry, and Trax, a leading provider of capital market data, trade matching and regulatory reporting services, have entered into an agreement, which enables mutual customers to streamline their MiFID II transaction reporting.The agreement leverages Cappitech’s innovative and comprehensive regulatory reporting platform and Trax’s proven regulatory reporting heritage, to allow financial institutions to meet their MiFID II reporting requirements seamlessly, including daily transaction reporting. Over 40 of Cappitech’s customers are already benefitting from the enhanced MiFID II transaction reporting that the integration offers including German insurance company, Provinzial NordWest; Swiss bank, Swissquote; and Irish broker, AvaTrade.
Ian Webb, Head of Compliance at AvaTrade, said: “Through Cappitech and Trax’s cooperation, we have been able to automate our MiFID II reporting to the Central Bank of Ireland. The solution also provides us with an easy to use portal to review reports and messages from the ARM and NCA.”
“We are delighted to partner with Trax, a provider of best-in-class APA and ARM services, to offer our customers a comprehensive, secure and automated solution that allows them to streamline their MiFID II reporting and reduce operational risk and costs,” said Ronen Kertis, Founder and CEO of Cappitech. “The integration of the Cappitech and Trax offerings will enhance our mutual customers’ ability to both comply with regulatory reporting requirements and compete effectively in an increasingly competitive marketplace.”
“We’ve been working with Cappitech since MiFID I and our clients that use Cappitech’s technology to assist with their regulatory reporting have done so with great success. Our continued work with Cappitech will help firms navigate the complex regulatory reporting environment MiFID II has brought to the industry”, said Christopher Smith, Head of Trax.
Integration highlights include:
Innovative technology: Trax seamlessly integrates with Cappitech’s compliance technology to support the onboarding of non-standard, more complex customers. Using Cappitech’s innovative CapptivateTM technology, different trading files can be combined easily and converted into a single Trax formatted file, providing a cost-effective yet tailor-made technology solution for Trax’s larger customers.
Cross-regulation ARM reporting: Cappitech supports numerous European customers across 10+ NCAs and uses Trax as its ARM of choice. Trax handles the NCA integrations when submitting trades, enabling Cappitech customers to report to multiple NCAs with ease. The enhanced reporting experience, in addition to Cappitech’s best-in-class regulation technology solutions including Best Execution coverage, offers customers a seamless process.
Personal data handling: Under MiFID II, financial services firms are required to report personal data as part of their transaction reporting. The Cappitech-Trax integration enables all personal data to be submitted to Trax’s European Data Store (EDS) with only the transactions reported through Cappitech to Trax. The transactions and personal data are then matched securely, using an ID known only to the reporting entity, before being sent to the NCA. This segregation of data offers a best-in-class security model for sensitive data under the MiFID II transaction reporting regime.
About Cappitech
Cappitech is a leading provider of regulation technology for the financial services industry. Through CapptivateTM, Cappitech’s regulatory service platform, customers can easily automate submission and analyse their daily trades to comply with international financial transaction reporting obligations. This cross-regulation platform uses state-of-the-art technology to provide a unified experience for all regulatory reporting along with an industry leading analytics dashboard to process and audit review compliance reports. Trusted by leading financial institutions, Cappitech provides superior service and personalised guidance using its vast operational regulatory expertise. Led by a team of experienced FinTech professionals with a proven track record, Cappitech has been named a RegTech 100 company – one of the world’s most innovative RegTech companies – by FinTech Global, a data and research firm. For more information, please visit www.cappitech.com.
About Trax®
Trax is a leading provider of capital market data, trade matching and regulatory reporting services to the global securities market. Trax processes on average over 1 billion annual transactions on behalf of its community of over 600 entities including approximately 12 million fixed income transactions. Trax operates an Approved Publication Arrangement (APA) and Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM) for MiFID II trade and transaction reporting in addition to providing support for other regulatory regimes. Trax additionally provides capital market firms with information to assist them in conducting net asset valuations, mark-to-market calculations, fixed-income portfolio mapping, liquidity and volume modelling, as well as reference data population updates. Trax data products include a universe of over 300,000 fixed income securities with unique pricing and volume information on approximately 60,000 individual bonds.
Trax is based in London and was originally established in 1985. Acquired by MarketAxess in 2013, Trax is a trading name of Xtrakter Ltd. and is a wholly owned subsidiary of MarketAxess Holdings, Inc. For more information, please visit www.traxmarkets.com.
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Trudy Namer
Director of Marketing, Cappitech
trudy.namer@cappitech.com
Teresa Chick
Public Relations for Cappitech
teresa@teresachick.com
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Name: Trudy Namer, Director of Marketing, Cappitech
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Website: http://www.cappitech.com
Release ID: 410162