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GoldenSource Releases Cloud Data Services Designed to Improve Data Management in Data Lakes and Warehouses
GoldenSource has made its first move since being acquired in May 2022 by Gemspring Capital with the release of cloud data services designed to help financial institutions improve data management in data lakes and warehouses. The company notes increasing use of cloud data platforms and warehouses, and the ease of data access, but also the...
Natural Language Processing, the Shift from Surveilling Traders to Supporting Them
By Oliver Rooney, VoxSmart. Natural Language Processing (NLP), although not a new concept, is increasingly being discussed within Financial Markets. Despite its tenure in everyday services such as chat boxes, Alexa and Hey Google amongst others, the way in which it is being utilised in financial markets is changing for the better with firms set...
Optimising High Performance Infrastructure for Growing Market Data Volumes
As market data volumes continue to grow, firms across the industry – both market participants and their service providers – are having to think strategically about what kind of infrastructure they need in order to accommodate this growth, particularly under peak loads, whilst optimising for high performance. Given the rising volume, what kind of decisions...
How Accelerator Frameworks and Low Code/No Code Can Be Used to Enhance Post-Trade Operations
By Kenan Maciel, Director of Strategy, Lab49. The Covid-19 pandemic instigated significant shocks to firms across capital markets. As a result, the need for technology platforms enabling efficient trading experiences skyrocketed. What’s more, the volatile start to this year has simply reaffirmed this notion for organizations operating in the sector. As traders seek how best...
How Can Firms Prepare for the CFTC Rewrite?
By Leo Labeis, CEO, REGnosys. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) rewrite of swaps reporting rules – known as the ‘CFTC Rewrite’ – is one of several upcoming changes to global trade reporting regimes. Earlier this year, it extended the deadline for financial institutions to comply from May 25, 2022, to December 5, 2022. The...
ION Launches Fixed Income Execution Management System
ION, the trading, analytics, treasury, and risk management solutions vendor, has launched FI EMS, a new fixed income execution management system for both buy and sell-side fixed income traders. The new product, which expands ION’s market-making solution, is designed to ease challenges around selecting counterparties and sourcing liquidity in fixed income, by digitalising the entire...
Webinar Preview: ESG Data Needs Proper Governance to Avoid Greenwashing
Organisations must resist the temptation to take a relaxed view of their ESG data in the absence of written governance rules, a data management expert has warned. As investors and regulators put more pressure on financial institutions and companies to get their ESG processes in order, the risk of reputational and financial damage has risen...
ESMA and IIF Focus Their Targets on Frustration Over ESG Ratings and Data
The European financial regulator and an Institute of International Finance (IIF) have called for an urgent rethink of ESG ratings and data, saying that the need for accurate sustainability information is becoming more pressing as climate change accelerates. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has weighed in on ratings providers, saying that respondents to...
Derivatives Service Bureau Delays Implementation of Unique Product Identifier
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has delayed implementation of the Unique Product Identifier (UPI), which was initially due to go live in Q3 2022, but will now be implemented in response to regulatory mandates, the first of which is expected to come from the CFTC in November 2023. The decision to delay implementation and wait...
Leveraging NLP for Regulatory Compliance
Natural language processing (NLP) is being used to accelerate every step of the compliance journey, from identifying relevant regulatory updates to understanding their content to mapping the changes onto internal infrastructure, according to panellists on a recent A-Team Group webinar, ‘Leveraging NLP for regulatory compliance’. Key takeaways included: Many firms have yet to recognise the...