Xcitek has successfully completed testing of ISO messages submitted by its flagship software, XSP, to Swift’s Corporate Actions Test and Certification Proof of Concept (POC) programme. In an effort to improve the quality of FIN Corporate Actions messages and overall STP, the Swift POC tested the validity of ISO messages submitted by participants to comply with market practice as defined by the SMPG.
As rising geopolitical uncertainty prompts an intensification in the complexity and volume of global economic and financial sanctions, banks and financial institutions are faced with a daunting set of new compliance challenges. The risk of inadvertently engaging with sanctioned securities has never been higher and the penalties for doing so are harsh. Traditional sanctions screening...
By Neil Vernon, Chief Product Officer, Gresham. For years, capital markets firms have faced the same challenge: modernising sprawling, legacy data systems. Each attempt follows a familiar pattern – ambitious platform overhauls, eight-figure budgets, years of disruption – yet the old systems often remain in use long after the new ones are live. Replacing systems...
Now in its 8th year, the Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference managed by A-Team Group, is the premier content forum and networking event for investment firms and hedge funds.
Entity data management has historically been a rather overlooked area of the reference data landscape, but with the increase focus on managing risk, the industry is finally taking notice. It is now generally agreed to be critical to every financial institution; although the rewards for investment in entity data management appear to be rather small,...
