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Data Lineage is One of the Most Opportunistic Solutions for Financial Firms
Data lineage is a hot topic, but just how hot and what should you be doing to ensure you get it right at your organisation? How can you ensure it delivers return on investment and is, indeed, an opportunistic solution? A recent A-Team Group webinar answered these questions and more, underlining the importance of data...
CFTC Provides Further Brexit-Related Market Certainty
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CTFC) stepped into the Brexit debate this week with a motion to provide greater certainty to the global marketplace in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The concern is that in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a negotiated withdrawal agreement, affected swap dealers and major...
A-Team Group Releases Shortlist for 2019 RegTech Insight Awards
A-Team Group has released a shortlist of potential winners for its hotly anticipated third annual RegTech Insight Awards, to be held in the City of London on May 3, 2019. The awards recognise excellence and innovation in the provision of technology solutions to meet regulatory requirements within the financial services industry, and are uniquely designed...
Lack of Senior Management Buy-in is Prohibiting Digital Transformation, Finds Fenergo
Digital maturity is still a long way off for financial institutions, according to new research by Fenergo, provider of digital Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) software solutions for financial institutions. The findings of Fenergo’s CLM Report, which is the second in a three-part series, showed that fewer than half (40%) of the 250 financial institutions surveyed...
Willis Towers Watson Selects SimCorp Dimension for Investments Business
Global advisory, broking and solutions company Willis Towers Watson has chosen SimCorp Dimension to provide a front-to-back system for its global delegated investments business. Serving a global institutional investment community, Willis Towers Watson’s investments business will use a spectrum of SimCorp Dimension elements from Asset Manager in the front office to investment accounting and SimCorp...
FINOS Releases Version 1.0 of the Financial Desktop Connectivity and Collaboration Consortium Standard
The Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), a non-profit organisation promoting open innovation in financial services, has released version 1.0 of the Financial Desktop Connectivity and Collaboration Consortium (FDC3) standard. Founded and contributed to by OpenFin, the initiative brings connectivity and standards to the financial industry’s desktop applications. Gabriele Columbro, executive director of FINOS, says: “The...
Invast Global Outlines its Selection and Implementation of OneTick Surveillance
Invast Global, a multi-asset prime brokerage based in Sydney and Hong Kong, has selected OneMarketData’s OneTick Surveillance solution to monitor FX, equities, commodities and futures. To find out more about the implementation, we talked to Invast chief operating officer Nick Briscoe. Outlining the problem Invast was facing, Briscoe says: “Simply put, our previous market surveillance...
Financial Institutions are Moving Towards Re-engineering Their Risk Management Systems – But at What Cost?
In a volatile market environment and with the edict to “do more with less,” many financial institutions are finally launching new efforts to reengineer their risk management programs, according to a new survey by Deloitte Global – with emerging technologies firmly in the driver’s seat. The report represents the 11th biennial edition of Global Risk Management Survey,...
Risk Management for Crypto-Assets: Where are the Pain Points?
By Phil Cotter, Managing Director of Risk, Refinitiv. The recent warning from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) relating to crypto-assets has emphasised once again the importance of a robust risk management framework for banks – but what does that mean in practical terms and what are some of the implications? The risks the...
Mizuho Bank Selects smartTrade LiquidityFX to Power Next-Generation FX Platform
Mizuho Bank Japan has selected smartTrade Technologies, a provider of multi asset, end-to-end trading solutions, to deliver its next-generation FX platform. The bank will use smartTrade’s LiquidityFX platform to centralise aggregation and optimise and internalise the management of its FX flows. This is expected to generate cost savings for Mizuho and create new opportunities for...