Richard Eichen has joined SmartStream as general manager of U.S. solution services. Eichen, based in New York, will report to Lou Longhi, U.S. managing director, and will have responsibility for rolling out SmartStream’s STP Control Architecture (STPCA), aimed at transforming SmartStream from an application provider to a strategic partner. Eichen was previously managing director – financial services consulting for Vitria Technologies.
Client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes are becoming more complex as regulation drives towards the inclusion of beneficial ownership data and requires financial institutions to improve customer due diligence still further. The webinar will discuss the need for beneficial ownership data, how it can be sourced and how it can be efficiently and...
The pricing for the London Stock Exchange’s Masterfile service was misstated in last month’s issue of Reference Data Review. User licenses are based on access to bands of Sedol codes: £500/year for few than 1,000 codes; £1,500/year for 1,000-5,000 codes; £5,000/year for 5,001-10,000 codes; and £15,000/year for more than 10,000 codes. For distributing vendors (and...
The AI in Capital Markets Summit will explore current and emerging trends in AI, the potential of Generative AI and LLMs and how AI can be applied for efficiencies and business value across a number of use cases, in the front and back office of financial institutions. The agenda will explore the risks and challenges of adopting AI and the foundational technologies and data management capabilities that underpin successful deployment.
The European corporate actions market could be the stage of some pretty heavy duty discussions regarding standards going forward, particularly with regards to the adoption of both XBRL tagging and ISO 20022 messaging. The region’s issuer community, for one, is not going to be easy to convince of the benefits of XBRL tags, given the...