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GRAC Service Provider RiskBusiness Launches GDPR Equivalency Checker
Governance, risk, audit and compliance (GRAC) content and service provider RiskBusiness has introduced a GDPR Equivalency Checker ahead of new EU data privacy requirements coming into effect later this month. The new tool is targeted at all financial services firms impacted by the incoming changes under the so-called Schrems II legislation that comes into effect...
Newly Merged Calypso and AxiomSL to Rebrand as Adenza
Regtech AxiomSL and trading, treasury and risk management platform Calypso Technology – which merged in July – have rebranded under the name Adenza, joining the likes of Finastra (formerly Misys), Alveo (formerly Asset Control) and others in settling on a synthetic term under which to operate as a fintech going forward. According to the company,...
Introducing ESG Insight… Your New Source of Data and Technology News for ESG initiatives
By Angela Wilbraham, CEO, A-Team Group. Welcome to ESG Insight, the brand new publication from A-Team Group. If you already know us, you’ll know that we’ve been tracking data and technology across the front- to back-office in capital markets for over 20 years now. It has become clear to us that the biggest (and possibly best) development...
Liquidnet Launches Primary Markets for Electronic Trading of New Bond Issues
TP ICAP’s Liquidnet subsidiary has launched a platform to support electronic trading of new issues in fixed income markets. Liquidnet Primary Markets provides an electronic workflow for new issues in Debt Capital Markets (DCM), together with a new protocol for trading new issues. Integrated into the existing Liquidnet Fixed Income trading application, the solution provides...
Don’t Miss It – A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit USA Virtual is Just Weeks Away
Data monetisation, data strategy to drive business outcomes, data discovery and intelligence, the power of data lineage, how to deliver an ESG data strategy and, necessarily, regulatory reporting challenges and the data management response, are just some of the key topics that leading capital markets’ participants and innovative solutions vendors will discuss at A-Team Group’s...
DTCC Data Services Aggregates Back-Office Data to Provide Front-Office Market Insight
DTCC Data Services is tapping the vast quantities of post-trade data that flow through DTCC on a daily basis to deliver back-office data to front-office data products offering market insight into areas such as liquidity, risk, momentum, sentiment and correlation. Early users of the historical data products include hedge funds and quant traders looking for...
Sponsored Blog: The LIBOR Transition: Fallback Rates and the USD Cash Market
By Jacob Rank-Broadley, Head of LIBOR Transition, B&I, Refinitiv. Our latest Refinitiv webinar sees a panel of experts unpack some pertinent issues surrounding cash products referencing USD LIBOR after its cessation. The most widely used USD LIBOR settings will permanently cease or no longer be representative after 30 June 2023, the Financial Conduct Authority has...
Fund Administration Services Provider EFA Selects NeoXam Impress Regulatory Edition
EFA, a provider of administrative services to the fund industry in Luxembourg, has selected NeoXam’s Impress Regulatory Edition hosted with NeoXam-as-a-Service to help meet its regulatory goals. EFA was already using NeoXam GP, the vendor’s back-office investment accounting tool, and selected Impress Regulatory Edition as it needed a dedicated platform to industrialise operations, as well...
Compliance-as-a-Service Provider Lawson Conner Adopts Acquirer IQ-EQ’s Brand Name
Lawson Conner, a UK-based regulatory hosting and outsourced compliance business, has rebranded as IQ-EQ, the name of investment funds service provider that acquired it in 2018. The rebrand of the compliance as-a-service provider comes at a time when the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has prioritised raising standards in the appointed representatives segment. IQ-EQ’s acquisition added...
Australia’s Identitii Launches SaaS-Based AML/CTF Platform to Reduce Regulatory Risk
Australia-based Identitii, which specialises in helping regulated entities including banks and other ‘money services’ providers manage regulatory risk, has launched a SaaS-based reporting and compliance platform aimed at addressing AML and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) reporting obligations. The cloud-based platform delivers end-to-end reporting automation and future proofs compliance by accepting any payment file format used today...