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Is There a Place for Non-Independent TCAs in the FX Market?
Amid the ongoing demand for transparency, Eric Huttman, CEO of MillTechFX asks if there is a place for non-independent TCA in today’s FX market. The foreign exchange (FX) market is notoriously opaque. Today, a large number of firms have no visibility on whether they are getting a good deal from their providers. As a result,...
Optimism Marks ESG Data Sector but Challenges Remain
Clean and accurate ESG data is core to financial institutions meeting their sustainability ambitions and obligations, but ensuring they have enough data in a useable form is proving a stumbling block. This, and other shortcomings of ESG data, was the subject of a fascinating conversation at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit New York....
Horizon Goes Live with H3 Trading Platform
Horizon Software, the trading technology vendor, has launched its Horizon H3 Trading Platform, with clients now live in Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Earlier this year, Sagard NewGen acquired a majority stake in the company, alongside a management buy-out, to support expansion into new markets and strategic capabilities. At the time of the...
DTCC Partners Snowflake to Improve Data Access, Sharing and Usage Across Services
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is partnering Snowflake to improve how data is accessed, shared and leveraged across a number of its services. Long term, using the Snowflake Data Cloud, DTCC aims to expand market transparency, reduce risk, and provide greater operational efficiency. The partnership extends an existing relationship between the companies and...
AFME Makes Recommendations for Open Finance Framework
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has underlined the importance of a level playing field for responsible data sharing and made recommendations for an Open Finance Framework ahead of the publication of the European Commission’s framework for data access in financial services that is due to be published in coming months. EFMA shares...
Orion Wins A-Team Group Award for Best Graph Database Solution for Data Management
Silicon Valley-based Orion Governance has won the award for Best Graph Database Solution for Data Management in A-Team Group’s inaugural Data Management Insight Awards – USA 2022. These awards celebrate leading providers of data management solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants across North America. Orion’s data management solution, Enterprise Information Intelligence Graph (EIIG)...
A-Team Group Names Winners of Data Management Insight Awards – USA 2022
A-Team Group announced the winners of its inaugural Data Management Insight Awards – USA 2022 today. The awards were presented by highly respected capital markets participant Predrag Dizdarevic, partner at data management consulting and solutions provider Element22, after the close of A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit New York and during a lively drinks reception. These...
Webinar Preview: Getting ESG Data Right to Fully Leverage Power of Analytics
The growing body of ESG data is posing a few challenges to financial institutions as they try to make sense of the tsunami of sustainability information entering their systems. Data managers are turning to sophisticated analytical tools including artificial intelligence (AI) to help them clean, digest and utilise the data. How they do that and...
Progress in Taxonomy and Standards Alignment Hampered by Data Gaps
Financial institutions and corporations are pressing on with efforts to align with ESG taxonomies and there is confidence that reporting rules introduced in recent years are bringing more private companies into the fold. But more than two years after the European Union’s “green” Taxonomy was implemented experts say there are still yawning gaps in the...
LeapXpert Partners with OpenFin to Increase Productivity Around Messaging Apps
LeapXpert, the enterprise-grade business communication platform, has announced a strategic partnership with OpenFin, the operating system (OS) of enterprise productivity. Under the partnership, LeapXpert’s Federated Messaging Orchestration Platform will be integrated into OpenFin OS, enabling traders and other enterprise employees to retrieve critical information sent through messaging applications without leaving their primary workspace or interrupting...