Global Operations and Administration Limited (GOAL), a provider of tax reclamation services, has completed the acquisition of Magenta One, a securities class actions specialist. As a wholly owned subsidiary of GOAL, the business will trade under the new name of Magenta One Global Limited, operating out of GOAL’s headquarters in the City of London. David Monks will continue to lead the sales team, targeting custodian banks, pension funds, fund managers and brokerages.
The rapid spread of artificial intelligence in the financial industry presents data teams with novel challenges. AI’s ability to harvest and utilize vast amounts of data has raised concerns about the privacy and security of sensitive proprietary data and the ethical and legal use of external information. Robust data governance frameworks provide the guardrails needed...
As private markets and assets grow in importance to institutional investors, so are the challenges they face; not least of all their data processes. A report by Dynamo Software in February found that the biggest challenges faced by accounting professionals in private equity, venture and hedge funds were tech and data-related; manual data entry and...
Buy AND Build: The Future of Capital Markets Technology London examines the latest changes and innovations in trading technology and explores how technology is being deployed to create an edge in sell side and buy side capital markets financial institutions.
Hundreds of thousands of pre-Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) have been issued by pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs) in the Global LEI System (GLEIS), and the standard entity identifier has been mandated for use by regulators in both the US and Europe. As more pre-LEIs are issued ahead of the establishment of the global systems’ Central Operating...