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SIX Partners with Xignite for Strategic Cloud Initiative
SIX Financial Information’s announcement last month of a strategic partnership with Xignite marks a significant step-up in the relationship between the two companies and signals SIX’s intention to embrace cloud delivery for its universe of financial information. The arrangement allow clients access to SIX content via Xignite’s API and cloud distribution infrastructure, opening up opportunities...
Next Six Months Crucial for LIBOR Transition, FCA Urges Firms to Sign ISDA Protocol
The four to six months ahead of us are arguably the most critical period in the transition away from LIBOR, and the time to act is now. So says Edwin Schooling Latter, Director of Markets and Wholesale Policy at the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, as he urges the financial services industry to prepare for one...
New Mobile App Boosts ACA Compliance Group Capability
In today’s increasingly distributed work environment, accessibility is everything – and firms are having to find new ways to meet their compliance requirements whilst managing a workforce that is more disparate, fragmented and remote than ever before. “With competing regulatory focus areas requiring vigilant oversight and cost pressures being higher than ever, it’s imperative that...
AML Penalties Increase in APAC as Regulators Rev their Engines
By the end of July 2020, AML, KYC and sanctions fines for global financial institutions reached $5.6 billion, according to the latest findings from client lifecycle management specialist Fenergo. Notably however, although overall penalties were actually down by a third compared to the same period last year, fines issued by APAC regulators related to AML...
Vela and IPC Expand Market Data Partnership
Vela, an independent provider of trading and market access technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, has expanded its strategic partnership with financial markets communications giant IPC, to boost access to market data. The partnership will give IPC customers access to Vela’s market data solution, SuperFeed, via Connexus Cloud, IPC’s flagship financial ecosystem, which interconnects more than 6,600 capital market...
Cloud9 Partners with comitFS on Real-Time Voice Trading as Industry Adjusts to Virtual Landscape
New York’s Cloud9 Technologies has partnered with comitFS, a UK-based provider of voice middleware and API abstraction capabilities for financial service organizations, to work on improving real-time call control capabilities for voice trading within the institutional marketplace. The joint venture will combine comitFS’s mix of trader voice applications and API’s combined with Cloud9’s advanced solutions...
SimCorp Selects Microsoft Azure for its Move to the Public Cloud
Investment management solutions specialist SimCorp took the next step in its cloud migration this week, with the integration of its investment management platform with Microsoft Azure, the cloud computing platform with which Microsoft is hoping to win its ongoing Infrastructure-as-a-service (Iaas) battle against Amazon AWS and Google Cloud. The rapidly growing Iaas market, estimated by...
AI-Powered Data Extraction from Clearwater Analytics
Clearwater Analytics, a Software-as-a-service (Saas) buy-side data aggregation and portfolio reporting specialist, this week launches a new machine learning-based information extraction service. The data extraction solution focuses on data aggregation and normalization, drilling into transactional data to create a service that automates the ingestion of many types of data which are traditionally manually entered. The...
AxiomSL Reveals New FRTB Certification in Line with ISDA Benchmarking
AxiomSL, a provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions, has launched its new Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB-SA) and Counterparty Credit Risk (SA-CCR) certification – one of the first to provide clients with calculations in line with the International Swaps and Derivatives Association’s (ISDA) ‘golden source’ calculations. The rigorous golden source calculations...
New Funding Round for kompany Marks Growth Prospects
Business verification and business KYC (KYB) specialist kompany has won new investment of almost €6 million from players including Fairway Global Investment and Japanese VC firm Global Brain, who join the European Super Angels Club as major shareholders. Over the past year company has seen rapid growth, doubling its headcount as its takes advantage of...