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Global LEI Foundation Aims to Accelerate LEI Adoption by Slashing Prices of the Identifiers to Single Digit Dollars
The Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF) is planning to tear down the cost barrier obstructing widespread adoption of the LEI with the implementation of a validation agent role for banks and financial institutions. Expectations are that frequently contended high prices charged to register an entity for an LEI – by way of example Bloomberg charges $65...
LSE Adds TNS Low-Latency Connection in London as It Plans Data Centre Shift to Docklands
Transaction Network Services (TNS) has installed its ultra-low latency TNSXpress Layer 1 connectivity capability at the London Stock Exchange (LSE) colocation facility in the City of London. The implementation comes as the LSE is understood to be planning for a move to a new London data centre at the Telehouse facility on the Isle of...
SmartStream Offers Affinity Machine Learning Technology in the Cloud
SmartStream Technologies has acknowledged banks’ ongoing move to cloud services and growing interest in machine learning (ML) for data management and discovery with its offer of Affinity, an observational learning solution designed to improve operational data management and data quality processes. Affinity observes how users work, learns from them, and incrementally increases its understanding of...
Bottomline Boosts Anti-Financial Crime Capabilities with Dow Jones Data
Bottomline Technologies, a FinTech specialising in secure business payments, this week announced a partnership with Dow Jones Risk & Compliance: adding key Dow Jones data to its Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing monitoring and screening capabilities. Dow Jones’s risk data, including politically exposed persons (PEPs), sanctions lists and adverse media entities for the UK,...
Acin Wins First Funding Round From Notion Capital, Fitch Ventures
Acin, a data standards firm seeking to digitise operational and non-financial risk, has secured $12 million in a Series A funding round led by European SaaS investor Notion Capital and supported by Fitch Ventures, the investment arm of credit ratings and research giant Fitch Group. RegTech Insight talks to Acin CEO Paul Ford to learn...
AxiomSL Could Be Up For Sale – But Who’s Buying?
There are rumours that risk data management and regulatory reporting specialist AxiomSL could be up for sale, with interest from several private equity firms. If true, it would only be the second round of institutional funding for the firm since it was founded in 1991, following the strategic stake taken back in 2017 by current owner,...
Canada’s ITG Implements Cloud-Based Trade Surveillance from OneMarketData
Canadian brokerage Independent Trading Group (ITG) has implemented OneMarketData’s cloud-hosted OneTick Trade Surveillance solution to ensure compliance with regulatory monitoring requirements in the face of the surging volumes and volatility that have accompanied Covid-19 pandemic. According to Nick Savona, chief compliance officer at ITG, the brokerage outgrew its legacy PositionWatch system, which it continues to...
Live at Data Management Summit USA Virtual – Day Two Keynote and Q&As
A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit USA Virtual Day Two was based on the theme of best practices for data driven strategies in today’s new normal. The day started with an informative live keynote from Arvind Joshi, director of data management at Scotiabank, on how to establish data quality for analytics. This was followed by three...
Schroders Deploys SteelEye to Improve MiFID II Transaction Reporting
SteelEye continue to build its customer base looking for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) solutions with the addition of Schroders. The investment manager deployed SteelEye in July 2020 having selected the compliance technology and data analytics firm on the basis of the quality of its technology, regulatory expertise, and willingness to support...
ROC Takes Responsibility for Identifiers Designed to Track OTC Derivatives Transactions
Transparency of the OTC derivatives market takes a step forward tomorrow with the Financial Stability Board (FSB) confirming the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the Global LEI System as the International Governance Body for the identifiers that will be used to track OTC derivatives transactions. Harmonisation of the identifiers should culminate towards the end of...