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Octopai Supports Cloud Migration with Cloud Native Data Lineage for Business Intelligence
As data volumes grow, new sources emerge, and firms migrate to the cloud, data lineage has become essential to mapping, visualising and understanding data across the enterprise, and crucial to providing business users with trusted information. Octopai, which came to market in 2018, offers automated metadata-based data lineage with a focus on analysing and understanding...
Alveo Research Highlights Need to Integrate Data Management and Analytics to Improve Data Quality and Business Decisions
Data quality remains a force to be reckoned with among capital markets firms, with two thirds saying data analysts and quants in their organisation spend between 25% and 50% of their time collecting, preparing and quality controlling data – time they could otherwise have spent on analysis and modelling. Problems with data quality are most...
Qomply and Bovill Team Up on Regulatory Audits
Qomply, a RegTech firm specializing in transactions reporting for MiFIR, SFTR and EMIR, has joined forces with global financial services regulatory consultancy Bovill to develop an end-to-end transaction reporting service for financial institutions. Powered by Qomply’s technology, Bovill will streamline its HealthCheck services to provide clients with immediate feedback on the accuracy and completeness of...
IFRS 9 Methodology and Model Management Post Pandemic
By Mahim Mehra, Senior Risk Advisor, and Yoon Sik Ma, VP, Product Manager, AxiomSL. Complying with the credit-risk analytics and credit- impairment requirements under International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 9 has forced financial institutions to change how they organize, calculate, and examine their credit data. Organizations have had to reconcile data across risk, finance, and...
Coronavirus Impact Upends Company Data Disclosure
By Rosy Bitar, Head of Company Financials Data, and Brandon Emmerich, Technical Product Manager, at Bloomberg. Among Covid-19’s widespread effects, the virus has thrown a wrench into a vital process within the financial markets: the disclosure of company data that investors use to inform their positions and trades. The pandemic has altered publicly traded companies’...
Meet the A-Team Series:
Angela Wilbraham, CEO
It’s been 20 years since two enthusiastic entrepreneurs started tracking the financial technology industry in capital markets with the launch of A-Team Group. It’s only fitting that on this esteemed anniversary, we share a little bit about those behind the scenes at your favourite content provider. Starting with the woman at the head of our...
The Deal is Done – LSEG Completes Acquisition of Refinitiv
A big day in the City last Friday as the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) completed its all-share acquisition of Refinitiv first mooted back in July 2019. The acquisition is expected to create a leading, UK-headquartered, global financial market infrastructure provider with a strong data and analytics business, significant capital market capabilities across multiple asset...
Crux Informatics Closes $36 Million Funding Round to Accelerate Growth
New York-based Crux Informatics has raised $36 million of new funding from its existing investors, which include Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Two Sigma. The financial data delivery platform operator, founded in 2017, has also announced two new products: Crux Protect and Crux Wrangle. Crux specialises in providing a high-scale, fast, and cost-effective data...
n-Tier Blockchain-Based Reference Data Consensus Solution Aims to Drive Down Errors and Costs
As reference data volumes continue to soar, bringing with them huge data cleansing, validation and management costs, financial institutions are beginning to consider collaborative solutions that can improve data accuracy while reducing cost. n-Tier, a New York headquartered company that helps firms ensure accuracy and completeness of reference data, has joined the party with a...
Data Management for Analytics and Market Surveillance
Big Data pervades every aspect of our lives, whether in support of smartphone apps or more sophisticated AI techniques used across many industries. The financial services segment is no exceptions, and the explosion of data in financial markets is posing new opportunities and challenges to deploy analytics for better trading decisions and more effective surveillance....