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Brian Sentance Leaves Role of CEO at Xenomorph
Brian Sentance has stepped down from the role of CEO at Xenomorph Software after 23 years at the helm and following a successful first close of a two-stage funding round. He is replaced as CEO by Ron Zeghibe, a director of Xenomorph Holdings since May 2016. Matthew Skinner, managing director EMEA, joins Zeghibe as part...
Danske Bank Goes Live with Datactics RegMetrics to Validate Customer Data
Danske Bank UK has implemented Datactics’ RegMetrics data quality solution to improve its single view of customers in Northern Ireland. The bank concluded a successful proof of concept last summer, went live with RegMetrics this month, and is looking at additional use cases for the software. The bank looked at three solutions to enhance its...
Tim Lind Joins DTCC as Managing Director of Data Services
Tim Lind has returned to the front line of capital markets solutions as managing director of DTCC Data Services. At DTCC, he will be responsible for guiding the firm’s data businesses, including services that leverage data derived from DTCC’s global processing platforms, and ensuring ongoing alignment with risk management and regulatory requirements. Lind previously headed...
Deutsche Börse Reaps the Benefits of Implementing Metamako Network Devices
Deutsche Börse Group is reaping the benefits of Metamako FPGA-based network devices in its colocation network, including the ability to gain greater insight into the network and use precisely timestamped packet capture data for analyses that were not previously possible. The exchange deployed 60 Metamako K-Series devices running MetaWatch, an ultra-precise tapping and timestamping application,...
DSB Final Fees for ISINs for OTC Derivatives Higher than Expected
The Derivatives Services Bureau (DSB) set up to create ISINs required for OTC derivatives under Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) has finalised fees for user contracts running from October 2, 2017 to December 31, 2018. It notes, ‘we are mindful that the smaller than expected number of users contributing to the DSB’s...
Corlytics Regulatory Risk Intelligence Adds New Dimension to Compliance
With regulators taking a tough stance on non-compliance, enforcement actions running into billions of dollars, and compliance departments under stress, how can financial institutions pull-back from the brink, improve control of compliance, and reduce regulatory risk? We caught up with John Byrne, CEO at Corlytics (and former CEO at Information Mosaic) to discuss how firms...
EarlyBird Harnesses Twitter for Unique Trading Data Sets
The ubiquity of real-time financial information means that it’s difficult for traders to find unique market opportunity that gives them gives them a competitive advantage. As a result, trading firms are increasingly turning to so-called Alternative Data to seek out undiscovered data niches that may yield a market-winning deal. As with the broad consumer market,...
The Governance, Risk and Compliance Trends Set to shape 2018
By: Doug Morgan, Group Chief Executive, Cordium The past few years have been challenging for the compliance teams of financial firms and 2018 will be no different – if anything, the pace of evolution is set to accelerate on a number fronts. From input gathered from clients and industry contacts, Cordium has pulled together a...
Synechron Completes Integration of Cityfront
Synechron has strengthened its systems integration business through the completion of its combination with Cityfront Group, a systems integrator for enterprise capital market platforms such as Murex, Calypso and Summit, which it acquired in 2016. The transition of Cityfront to the Synechron brand allows Synechron to offer the market a combination of end-to-end services including...
Thomson Reuters Live with Key MiFID II Compliance Services
Thomson Reuters has fulfilled its commitment to clients within the scope of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) with go live of key services designed to help them achieve compliance. Services that have been updated since the January 3rd, 2018 MiFID II compliance deadline include: updated MiFID II compliant data already available to...