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Snowflake to Go Public in Latest Cloud Twist
Snowflake Computing, one of the rising stars in the cloud firmament, on Monday this week filed for an IPO – heralding one of the most exciting public offerings in the tech space this year. The move marks a growing shift towards the cloud, exacerbated by the unique working conditions imposed by Covid-19, that has seen...
The Reconciliations Revolution: How COVID-19 is Shining a Light on Outdated Technology
By Mark Bolton, Head of Sales, International, Gresham Technologies. Automation was once embraced wholeheartedly by reconciliation departments as companies leaped at the opportunity to integrate the latest efficiency driving technology to bring about change and improvement. However, in more recent times this has been replaced by a mood of complacency and stagnation, characterised by a...
Glue42 Teams with Leading Point to Promote ‘Composable Enterprise’ for Front Office
London-based smart desktop protagonist Glue42’s new partnership with consultant Leading Point Financial Markets – announced last week – is aimed at accelerating the uptake of the so-called ‘composable enterprise’ approach to optimising work flows in the financial front office. The approach – espoused by industry analysts like Gartner – allows firms to create a kind...
Shield Integrates with Zoom to Ensure Communications Compliance
In response to client demand, specialist RegTech provider Shield has integrated its complete eComms compliance and Surveillance platform with collaboration platform Zoom. Its capture, surveillance and investigation tools can now be used across video, audio, chat and shared data files on the Zoom system in order to protect communications and ensure compliance during these unprecedented new Covid-19 working conditions....
SteelEye Seeks to Automate Compliance with Auto-Trade Reconstruction Technology
Compliance technology and data analytics firm SteelEye made a splash last week with the launch of its new Auto-Trade Reconstruction technology, which reduces the time it takes for a firm to reconstruct a trade from days to seconds. Under MiFID II, MAR, Dodd-Frank and other global regulations, authorised firms can be asked by the regulator at...
FINRA Starts the Clock on OATS Retirement
By Peter Gargone, CEO at n-Tier. FINRA’s August 14 SEC rule filing, coupled with its July 29 compliance webinar, provide the clearest view yet on FINRA’s approach to enforcing CAT regulatory compliance and achieving the industry’s goal of retiring OATS reporting. Peter Gargone of compliance software specialist n-Tier discusses the complexities of the transition, and the...
Symphony Adds Levy as President as Usage Surges due to Covid-19
Symphony has bolstered its leadership team with the addition of Brad Levy, who joins the collaboration platform as president and chief commercial officer. Levy, who was most recently a partner at IHS Markit, will focus on expanding the company’s commercial offering in the capital markets segment. The announcement comes as Symphony reports significant growth in...
ISO Standardises Process of Embedding LEIs in Digital Certificates
ISO has defined a standard approach for Certification Authorities to embed Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) within digital certificates. The move to simplify LEI integration paves the way for all digital certificates to be linked by a universal identifier to verified and regularly updated entity reference data, in a freely accessible repository, and also can contain the...
The Perils of Inaccurate Data Capture
By Russell Jones, CEO, Fetchify (specialising in SaaS address lookup and data validation solutions). Inaccurate data can be damaging to all aspects of a business. In a 2018 survey, Gartner reported that organisations are negatively impacted by poor quality data, resulting in wasted resources and unnecessary costs to the tune of $15 million annually. Poorly...
The Changing Role of Data Management in the Post-Pandemic Age
By Boyke Baboelal, Strategic Solutions Director, Asset Control. Continuous, and often rapid, change has been a given for organisations across multiple economic sectors since the COVID-19 virus took hold and it looks set to be a key feature of the post-pandemic age, whose key trends are already taking shape. Across the financial services industry, change...