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Demystifying Data Science and Analytics
By Sarah Carver, head of digital services at Delta Capita. Data science and analytics are the keys to growth for any financial services organisation, and over the past decade, there has been an increased realisation in the potential value of data. However, despite the increasing importance of data science, many institutions face challenges due to...
Streams: The Way to Better Liquidity in the FX Markets
By Phil Weisberg, EVP of Strategic Planning and Partnerships, oneZero. Sourcing liquidity in foreign exchange trading is a herculean task for banks, one not helped by an ever-evolving thicket of global regulation and the complicated nature of FX infrastructure and trading. The traditional way of looking at how to provide the necessary liquidity has been...
CJC Extends Availability of mosaicOA to BT Radianz Cloud
Market data technology specialist CJC has extended availability of its mosaicOA infrastructure performance monitoring solution to BT Radianz Cloud, making the IT visualisation and analytics tool the first to be made available to Radianz users. The move follows the recently addition of mosaicOA to Google Cloud. The mosaicOA platform provides firms with interactive dashboards to...
ComplyAdvantage Tops Up Series C Funding with Goldman Sachs Investment
ComplyAdvantage, a financial crime compliance specialist, has received new investment from Goldman Sachs Growth Equity. The investment will be used to build on the company’s rapid growth and cement its position as a critical part of the value chain for companies managing evolving risks around anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) processes, as...
FCA Completes Transition from Gabriel to RegData Data Collection Platform
The FCA has completed the replacement of its long-standing Gabriel data collection platform with RegData having recently transitioned a final batch of firms to the new platform. In total, 52,000 firms and 120,000 users have been moved from Gabriel to RegData since the transition began in October 2020. RegData is central to the FCA’s data...
Franz Inc. and Smartlogic Collaborate to Deliver Scalable, Distributed, Semantic Knowledge Graph Solutions
Franz Inc., a provider of graph database technology, and Smartlogic, a provider of semantic AI technology, have collaborated to help large enterprises accelerate deployment of highly-scalable, distributed, semantic knowledge graph solutions that can process real-time information and retrieve knowledge from data stored across the enterprise and beyond. Both companies are based in California and have...
Exegy and Vela Merge to Create Market Data and Execution Technology Powerhouse
Exegy, a provider of hardware accelerated solutions for market data and predictive analytics, and Vela, a market data and execution technology provider, have announced the merger of their business operations in an agreement backed by Marlin Equity Partners, a global investment firm with over $7.5 billion of capital commitments under management. Commercial terms of the...
Pico Taps Intel ‘Ice Lake’ to Achieve Sustained 100Gbps Processing for Corvil Analytics
Trading infrastructure specialist Pico has teamed with Intel to achieve 100Gbps sustained real-time processing for its Corvil Analytics product, which is used by financial institutions to manage and analyse their network flow. The development comes hot on the heels of Intel Capital joining other investors in funding a $135 million Series C investment round for...
GoldenSource Innovates ESG Solution Based on Established Data Management Capabilities
GoldenSource has introduced ESG Impact, an ESG solution based on its established data management capabilities and designed to provide ESG data coverage, comparison, quality checks, and portfolio screening. The company is working with about 20 ESG data vendors to understand their materiality maps and use its established data model to correlate data at intake and...
Surveillance 2.0 – Turn Up the Signal, Wipe Out the Noise
By Joseph Schifano, Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, Eventus Systems. Trade surveillance is a complex discipline, dependent on the processing and filtering of masses of data. Its mandate is constantly increasing too, with the relentless iterations of regulatory and market change demanding the monitoring of more asset classes across more business lines and against an...