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Vendor Strategy: Alveo Shifts from Professional Services to Managed Services to Broaden Offering Beyond Data Management
Alveo, a provider of market and reference data integration and analytics solutions for financial services firms, has designed its technology to optimise data flows for business user self-service, and provides cloud-native data aggregation and data quality solutions to give clients access to trusted data while maximising their return on investment. Martijn Groot, vice president of...
Privacy Enhancing Technologies – A Game Changer?
Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) hold promise for financial institutions as a means of collaborating on customer data while ensuring its privacy and security. Use cases include measuring the quality of KYC data in a peer group, sharing suspicious activity reports, and bringing together transaction data for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) purposes. As well as supporting these...
Sponsored Blog: What Market Data Strategy Challenges Does the Buy-Side Face?
By Janelle Veasey, Head of Real-Time, Refinitiv, an LSEG business and John Mason, Group Head of Pricing Reference Services, Refinitiv, an LSEG business Although the new Refinitiv Connected Data survey shows that buy-side firms are making more progress on their digital transformation journeys than sell-side firms, the evolution of their market and reference data strategies...
GDPR Reform: How Will a New Data Protection Regime Impact UK Financial Firms?
The data protection regulatory regime in the UK could soon look very different, if proposed changes to the current UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) come to fruition as part of a recently published UK government plan to move its data protection laws in a new direction following the country’s split from the EU....
Corlytics, First Derivative Win Funding for ‘Groundbreaking’ ESG Taxonomy Project
RegTech provider Corlytics and managed services group First Derivative have received funding to jointly develop an open-source ESG taxonomy mapping project. The companies received a “reasonably considerable amount” from Irish advocacy group Sustainable Finance Ireland (SFI). The money will help build out what the companies describe as the world’s first open-source taxonomy tool. Once compiled,...
Cosaic Partners with Reformis to Deliver Desktop Interoperability to the Buy Side
Smart desktop technology provider Cosaic has forged a strategic partnership with buy-side technology consultants Reformis to help bring desktop interoperability to investment management firms by leveraging Cosaic’s Finsemble platform. Under the new partnership, Reformis will assist buy side firms with the implementation of desktop interoperability, using Finsemble as the underlying infrastructure. Finsemble is designed to...
Singapore RegTech Plan Signals Asian Maturity in ESG Approach
Singapore’s recent decision use RegTech to tackle greenwashing illustrates the strides leading Asian economies are making to toughen regulation of sustainable finance. The announcement at the city state’s annual fintech conference coincides with the release of a white paper by the Fintech Association of Hong Kong (FAHK). The document lays a vision of an ESG...
Trader Desktop Interoperability Comes of Age
Desktop interoperability – the ability to seamlessly integrate multiple applications across the desktop – has long been a holy grail for financial markets firms, particularly in the front office, where traders across both the buy side and sell side often have a number of applications open at any one time to perform a wide range...
How Knowledge Graphs Can Deliver Insights When Integrating Decentralised Data
The majority of large data integration projects falter because systems are developed in a bespoke fashion, leaving organisations with critical applications that have been modified and transformed into a hornet’s nest of code that they cannot unravel for fear of breaking something. So, instead of trying to unravel systems, organisations have tended to duplicate processes,...
Corporate Actions a Challenge? Join Next Week’s A-Team Group Webinar to Find Solutions
Demand for timely and accurate corporate actions data is increasing as the complexity and volumes of events continues to rise, and financial institutions acknowledge the costly gap between accurate corporate actions processing in real, or near-real, time and faulty processing caused by poor data and resulting in missed opportunities to optimise revenue. While many firms...