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IFRS 9 Data Management: The Convergence of Finance and Risk
By Brian Sentance, CEO, Xenomorph The siloed delivery of data and technology has evolved quite naturally in most financial institutions. Whether the split lies across business units, geographic boundaries, asset classes or job functions – the complexity of most large organisations has led different teams to pursue their own unique requirements and procurement decisions regarding...
Funds-Axis Implements Datactics RegMetrics Data Quality Solution
Datactics has made its first break into the funds management market through a partnership with RegTech specialist Funds-Axis, which will use the company’s data quality metrics to improve automation and operating efficiency. The solution will also provide Funds-Axis clients with greater transparency of enterprise data quality. Funds-Axis, a provider of regulatory technology to the investment...
NEX Readies MiFID II Reconciliation Solution Based on Duco Cube
NEX Regulatory Reporting has selected the Duco Cube platform to underpin a Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) reconciliation solution that is due to be ready for testing in autumn ahead of the MiFID II compliance deadline in January 2018. Going forward, the company will integrate Duco Cube into all it regulatory reporting...
Trading Execution Concerns Shift From Latency To Proactivity
The ground on which market participants walk is shifting from a foundation of latency and performance concerns to a playing field where being proactive is their best asset, according to trading technology experts who spoke in a webinar hosted by Intelligent Trading Technology on June 1.
Tuning Up Symphony
The Symphony communications service, which provides a self-contained messaging protocol for financial services firms, is finding that its openness can be a double-edged sword. Intelligent Trading Technology spoke with Barry Raskin, managing director, management consulting at Jordan & Jordan, who is currently managing the implementation of Symphony for a major firm, about how Symphony’s openness...
GoldenSource Solves MiFID II Problem of Requesting ISINs for OTC Derivatives
GoldenSource is developing an ISIN request and enquiry solution for OTC derivatives that is designed to help firms within the scope of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) meet the transaction reporting requirement to use ISINs to identify OTC derivatives. The solution also considers concerns in the market about the speed at which...
The Emergence of RegTech
By: JR Lowry, EMEA head of State Street Global Exchange As 2017 unfolds, we continue to be in the midst of a period of momentous change in financial services, with the evolution of technology teetering on the edge of radically reshaping the entire industry. The period of hype surrounding the term ‘big data’ has given...
Lysis and iMeta Partner to Deliver Client Lifecycle Management Service for SMEs
Lysis and iMeta have teamed up to deliver a service for client lifecycle management that is designed to provide small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the financial services sector with agile, cost-effective access to client management resources rather than full-time operations. The managed service incorporates Lysis’s client onboarding and KYC expertise, and is underpinned...
The Time to Implement Innovative Technology for Electronic Execution is Now
Technology innovation is side-lining low latency in the drive to optimise performance and reduce complexity and cost of electronic execution infrastructure – but which technologies are finding favour and what can they deliver? Join the discussion at this week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit in New York City to find out about technology innovation for...
Partnership Readies Regulatory Compliance Service For October US Launch
With their partnership begun in January, Scandinavian based compliance solutions company TM Group, and UK-based archiving provider Arkivum, have put their capabilities together for an end-to-end solution that can collect customer data for regulatory compliance, communicate it within units of a firm, and, lastly, save and store the data, according to officials of both companies....