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The Rise and Rise of Financial Technology Expert Consulting
By Martin Thompson, Head of Platform at Adaptive Financial Consulting. Consultants have become integral to how complex modern businesses operate. Whether tapping into specialist legal or management advice, firms need expertise that is not immediately available to them to differentiate and compete. The same is true in financial technology – larger firms will typically have...
Snowflake and Salesforce Integration Takes Customer Personalisation to Next Level
Snowflake and Salesforce have extended their existing partnership by integrating Salesforce’s customer data platform (CDP) with Snowflake’s data cloud. The integration allows customers to share data in real time between Salesforce and Snowflake, minimising the risks and costs of traditional data synchronisation methods. The integration will be available in pilot mode in autumn 2022, and...
WCM Investment Management Cuts Reconciliation Time with Gresham Managed Services
WCM Investment Management has cut reconciliation time by two-thirds after tripling assets under management (AUM) over the past three years by using Gresham Technologies cloud-based managed services to aggregate data from more than 55 custodians and reconcile positions, transactions, cash and foreign currencies across 1,500 accounts and 2,500 cash buckets. WCM, an independent fund and...
S&P Global Market Intelligence Adds Onboarding Accelerator to Securities Finance Platform
S&P Global Market Intelligence has integrated the Onboarding Accelerator tool into its securities finance platform. The onboarding solution was initially developed by IHS Markit, which S&P Global acquired in a $44 billion merger completed in March 2022. The Onboarding Accelerator is an automated solution designed to challenge the inefficiencies of manual processes used by borrowers...
It’s Time to Embrace Risk Profiling for Regulatory Compliance
By Richard Pike, Managing Director, KYR Solutions, MyComplianceOffice. Regulations, frameworks, policies and controls define the day-to-day of Chief Compliance Officers (CCO) and their teams in what can best be described as a world of monitoring spaghetti. At the same time, the teams also need to ensure they are keeping senior executives and the front office...
Vendor Strategy: ICE Builds on Exchange, Mortgage Success to Grow in ESG
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is seeking to establish itself as a leading provider of sustainability data, leveraging the information-generating potency of its market venue, clearing house and mortgage businesses. The Atlanta and New York-based company’s recent acquisition of a number of climate data services, however, underlines its plans to expand its multi-asset ESG information offering. From...
‘Plainspoken’ Morningstar ESG Portal Seeks to Clear Confusion for Retail Investors
Financial research giant Morningstar has launched a “plainspoken” ESG service to help the growing army of global retail investors navigate the sustainable finance landscape. The Chicago-based company’s Investable World is a free data-enriched web portal that walks users through the key concepts, assets and investment strategies that form the backbone of the sustainability sector. It...
Murex Integrates with ICE Data Services for Fixed Income and Derivatives Data
Trading and risk management solutions vendor Murex has integrated with ICE Data Services, the data solutions division of Intercontinental Exchange, to improve workflow efficiency for clients accessing ICE’s fixed income and derivatives data via Murex’s MX.3 platform. The integration will provide existing and potential clients with access to a diverse range of daily and historical...
Beeks Group Delivers On-Demand Private Cloud Compute Solution for ICE Global Network
Beeks Group, the cloud computing, connectivity and analytics provider for capital markets, has collaborated with ICE Global Network (IGN), a division of Intercontinental Exchange, to provide a private cloud compute solution for IGN clients. The new offering combines Beeks’ on-demand compute service with IGN’s hosting and data access capabilities. “ICE sell colocation, managed services and...
Broadway Technology Partners with MarketAxess to Build US Treasury RFQ Workflow
Front office solutions vendor and fixed income specialists Broadway Technology has partnered with MarketAxess, the fixed income electronic trading platform operator and post-trade service provider, to build and support a Request for Quote (RFQ) workflow feature for the MarketAxess US Treasuries marketplace. Broadway’s fixed income business was spun off by ION in January 2021 and...