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Semarchy Optimises MDM Product for Use in Azure Purview
Global master data management (MDM) provider Semarchy has deepened its association with Microsoft’s Azure, enabling its clients to integrate more seamlessly into the cloud platform’s Purview tools suite. xDM is now deemed the “best for Azure” service on the platform, said chief product officer Francois-Xavier Nicolas. The company has designed and tooled its offering so...
Clearing the Way: Baymarkets on the Evolution of Clearing Systems
Q&A with Peter Fredriksson, Chairman of Baymarkets. Earlier in the summer, Abaxx Technologies went live with the Clara clearing platform from independent clearing systems vendor Baymarkets, to power its recently established Abaxx Commodity Futures Exchange and Clearinghouse in Singapore. Abaxx Clearing will use Clara to manage its initial lineup of five centrally-cleared, physically-deliverable futures contracts...
From Detection to Action – Securing Off-Channel Communications with Theta Lake
Discover how Theta Lake is addressing the compliance challenges of the modern communication landscape. In this interview, CEO and Co-founder Devin Redmond delves into the regulatory shifts driving the need for robust compliance tools. Theta Lake’s solutions are engineered to bring clarity and control across voice, video, whiteboards, text, and more. Learn how Theta Lake’s...
ACA Group Expands Global Presence with Acquisition of Effecta Compliance Group
ACA Group has acquired Effecta Compliance Group, a regulatory consultancy serving financial services firms in the UK and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This strategic move marks ACA’s entry into the Middle East, enhancing its ability to support clients operating in or expanding to the UAE. The UAE’s financial sector has seen significant growth recently....
FinScan Boosts pKYC with Identity Validation, Adverse Media Screening and Risk Scoring
Innovative Systems’ FinScan AML Compliance solution has rolled out new perpetual KYC (pKYC) capabilities to bolster financial institutions’ ability manage evolving regulatory challenges and combat financial crime. The new enhancements include identity document validation, adverse media screening, and dynamic risk scoring, providing a more proactive approach to managing customer risk in a fast-changing environment. “The...
Paving the Way to T+1: Automation is Essential for the UK’s Settlement Shift
By Paul Chambers, Xceptor. With the UK’s move to T+1 settlement cycles expected to be a game-changer for financial markets, the UK Accelerated Settlement Taskforce has been drawing on lessons from North America’s T+1 transition. One such lesson from across the Atlantic is that insufficient automation led to increased manual processing and exception management, putting...
STP Differentiates Investment Services with ComplianceAdvisor for Buy-Side Firms
STP Investment Services has introduced STP ComplianceAdvisor, a new practice aimed at providing comprehensive compliance solutions for investment firms. This expansion leverages STP’s existing expertise in technology-enabled investment servicing to address the growing demand for compliance assistance among its investment advisory clients. STP ComplianceAdvisor also expands the company’s technological capabilities. The new team will leverage...
BlueFlame AI Brings Light to Opaque Private Markets
Private markets are relative newcomers to digital transformation, despite being rich in data drawn from the corners of the economy that the more technologically advanced public markets can’t reach. The founders of young start-up BlueFlame AI recognised this gap in the financial services market and have created a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) platform that enables...
Assessing Nature Loss Impact: Bloomberg Unveils Latest Biodiversity Gauge
Early this year Bloomberg announced it would incorporate the London Natural History Museum’s Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) into its own data products. The BII is a gauge of biodiversity change across the world, which the world-famous museum said offers a health check on nature. Now Bloomberg has launched its first product built specifically to utilise...
Enhancing our National Asset: Maximising the Value of Data Collections Across the Financial Sector
The Bank of England is working to transform how we collect, use, and share our data, to maximise its value. Key to this is transforming statistical productions and working with the FCA, international regulators and industry to transform data collections. This work facilitates the international competitiveness of the UK economy and its medium- to long-term...