A-Team Insight Author: A-Team
Integrated Data Access and the Shift to Data-as-a-Service Models
The key to operational efficiency and improved decision-making in financial services By Martijn Groot, Vice President, Marketing and Strategy, Alveo. The vast proliferation of data sources available to financial services firms is both a challenge and an opportunity. Increased volumes, as well as diversity, of data sets can provide firms with colour and additional insight...
Vendor Strategy: Rimes Leverages Data Management Expertise to Take on ESG
Integrating ESG data into traditional data management systems may be akin to fitting the proverbial square peg into a round hole, but it’s a challenge that financial institutions are having to confront every day. There are established workarounds, but they rely on a confluence of expertise in ESG and regular financial data. And there’s the...
Broadridge SFDR Solution Takes EET Closer to Universal Use
European ESG Templates (EETs) are fast becoming the go-to means for companies to report their sustainability performances. The digital documents that provide a means for firms to comply with the European Union’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) form the basis of a growing number of reporting solutions. One of the most recent, by Broadridge Financial...
MDXT Acquires No-Code SaaS Workflow Solution Provider Iceflow
MDX Technology (MDXT), a provider of data distribution and collaboration technology, has acquired Iceflow Technologies, the no-code SaaS platform vendor founded by Graham Denyer, architect of IHS Markit’s original EDM solution, Cadis Software. Terms weren’t disclosed. MDXT and Iceflow now plan to become fully integrated, giving MDXT customers the ability to utilise the Iceflow no-code...
Get Ready – Dual UK and EU Regulatory Reporting is Only a Year Away
Dual UK and EU regulatory reporting has been a topic of conversation in capital markets both before and post-Brexit, but with the withdrawal of the FCA’s Temporary Permission Regime set for 2023, its reality is coming into focus, calling on data and regulatory practitioners to address the challenges of the change and find compliant solutions....
Qlik Extends Cloud Analytics Services for Snowflake
Qlik, a provider of real-time data integration and analytics, has extended its cloud analytics services for Snowflake with features designed to help customers drive more value from near real-time data when deploying Qlik’s cloud platform alongside Snowflake. The additional Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) capabilities include Direct Query and enhanced Qlik Cloud Data Services for Snowflake. Direct Query...
Plenitude Targets Financial Crime Risk with ClientSight CRR Solution
Financial crime risk specialist Plenitude has launched ClientSight, a cloud-based client risk rating (CRR) solution. The platform is aimed at helping financial institutions, fintechs and professional services firms to assess the financial crime risk of both individuals and entities. ClientSight seeks to address regulators’ heightened activity around financial crime and sanctions. CRR is a key...
Educating Retail: Lessons from the Terra-Luna Collapse
By Joe Jowett, CEO, StrikeX. The collapse of Terra has been one of the most significant events in the digital assets marketplace this year. The gains in the sector during the pandemic are now well-documented – Coinbase’s user base more than doubled between late 2019 and 2021 and Bitcoin saw a 300% increase in valuation...
DTCC Automates Voluntary Corporate Actions Lifecycle
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has made a further move to fully automate the corporate actions lifecycle with the processing of the US market’s first automated voluntary reorganisation ISO 20022 instruction. The process was carried out by DTCC subsidiary The Deposit Trust Company (DTC) using its newly automated voluntary reorganisation service, which is...
A-Team Group Names Winners of 2022 TradingTech Insight Awards USA
A-Team Group announced the 2022 winners of its acclaimed TradingTech Insight (TTI) Awards USA today. The awards recognise excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets, and focus on vendors providing exceptional and innovative trading infrastructure, technology, and data solutions dedicated to the challenges faced by firms operating in the US trading environment. This...