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Opus and Fenergo Team Up To Minimise Risks of KYC and AML
Opus and Fenergo have teamed up to provide an end-to-end Know Your Customer (KYC) system for running anti-money laundering (AML) checks on new clients. Under the partnership, Opus will feed external data – including sanctions lists, business news, market research, and economic and shareholder information – into Fenergo’s risk scoring and client lifecycle management (CLM)...
IHS Markit Prepares SI Register to Support MiFID II Reporting
IHS Markit is preparing a registry of systematic internalisers (SIs) to help market participants comply with Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) trade reporting obligations. The SI list will go live at the end of November on Markit’s Counterparty Manager web portal and will detail SIs operating across European Securities and Markets Authority...
LEI Smart Offers RegTech Solution for Legal Entity Identifier Requirements
Adoption of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is soaring in response to its requirement for trade reporting under Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), which takes effect on January 3, 2018. Ben Lis, founder of regtech start-up LEI Smart, will showcase the company’s LEI solution at next week’s A-Team Group RegTech Summit for...
ICE Partners ITRS to Offer Real-Time Monitoring of Global Data Feeds
ICE Data Services has agreed a global partnership with ITRS that enables it to offer real-time monitoring to users of its 450-plus market data feeds. Under the partnership, clients of ICE’s Consolidated Feed – which combines content from over 450 markets into a single platform – can use ITRS’s Geneos service to monitor their data...
Asset Control Integrates DataStax Enterprise to Power Market Data Platform
Asset Control has teamed up with DataStax to deliver a cloud based, NoSQL market and reference data platform. The platform is powered by DataStax Enterprise, integrated with Asset Control’s AC Plus enterprise data management (EDM) solution, and addresses issues around data volume, speed and access. Asset Control considered a number of technologies to support a...
RegTech API Fortress Focuses on Fast and Accurate Data Delivery
In a financial world driven by data, delivery is critical. Ahead of next week’s RegTech showcase at A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit for Capital Markets in New York, we talked to Patrick Poulin, CEO of regtech API Fortress about the company’s views on application programming interfaces (APIs) and its platform for API testing automation. Q: What...
Do It Once, Do It Right
By Bill Hodash and Eugene Ing, DTCC Next year will mark a decade since the financial crisis. Since then, a wave of regulatory reforms has been implemented to increase the transparency and resiliency of the financial system, including the mandate to use legal entity identifiers (LEIs) across many jurisdictions. The goal is to ensure that...
Finastra Wins Investment Platform Deal with KAMCO
Financial systems provider Finastra has been chosen ahead of five competitors to provide Kuwait-based investment company KAMCO with a single software platform that will integrate all the company’s asset management operations. Finastra’s Fusion Invest product will support KAMCO as it aims to scale up its business, extend asset class coverage and expand the range of...
Challenging the Barriers to RegTech Adoption
Management buy-in, cultural change and legacy systems can be barriers to the adoption of regtech, although the barriers are beginning to lower as regtech solutions show potential to fulfil business use cases and provide cost benefits. In the run-up to A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit for Capital Markets on November 16, 2017 in New York, we...
TickTrade Recruits Industry Veteran Kennedy to Run Global Sales
Foreign exchange (FX) trading platform provider, TickTrade Systems, has recruited fintech consultant and business development executive Will Kennedy as its global head of sales and marketing. Kennedy has over 25 years’ senior experience, most recently as a partner with the Toronto-based fintech consultancy Collaborative Financial Services. Before that, he held global business development, management and...