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GoldenSource Partners Snowflake to Deliver Omni Data Management App for the Buy-Side
GoldenSource has partnered Snowflake to deliver GoldenSource Omni, a native application that deploys the company’s data model on the Snowflake Data Cloud and combines data from multiple sources to centralise all processing and provide analytics and reporting of investment data within the cloud. As well as combining operational and analytical investment data in a unified...
Regulatory Reporting – 14 to Watch in 2024 – (EU/APAC)
Growth in the global capital markets is being driven largely by the increasing interconnectedness of global economies. This allows for more cross-border trading activity and the creation of new asset classes and investment strategies. New markets are being created, and access to existing markets is expanding. Regulatory reporting functions are facing intense pressure as they...
UK’s Debut SDR Rules Raise Data Management Concern
The UK’s newly implemented sustainability disclosure requirements (SDR) have placed additional data management burdens on financial institutions that operate in the UK. The country’s first such framework, created by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), is aimed at preventing greenwashing and fostering trust in British sustainability markets. It’s designed to protect the interests of investors by...
Liquidnet Introduces Roll Seeker to Streamline Futures Rolls Execution
Liquidnet, the technology-driven agency execution specialist, has launched Roll Seeker, a new tool designed to enhance workflows associated with the execution of futures rolls. The development responds to member requests to utilise Liquidnet’s block trading expertise to discover contra end-user liquidity interest more effectively. “With exchange-traded derivatives being such a mature market, we wanted to...
The New Frontier of Outsourced Data Management: S&P Global Market Intelligence Report
Digitalisation has taken financial institutions along a prosperous path of better understanding, management and utilisation of the data that their activities generate. But technological evolution and the changed economic environment have placed a new set of challenges onto their shoulders. Institutions are now grappling with how they can take their digital programme further, especially given...
Better Data, Better Business: Combat Identity-Related Fraud with the LEI
By Clare Rowley, Head of Business Operations at the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). The global economy is wrestling with never-before-seen levels of identity-related fraud. Cybercrime costs in the US reached an estimated $320 billion as of 2023, according to Statista. Between 2017 and 2023, this figure has seen a significant increase of over...
Cube Scales Globally with Two Strategic Acquisitions
With two significant acquisitions announced within days of each other beginning with – Cube acquires Reg-Room to further extend its regulatory intelligence and horizon scanning capabilities followed 8 days later by Cube acquires global regulatory intelligence businesses from Thomson Reuters – regulatory intelligence specialist Cube has been busy adding to its portfolio of capabilities. RegTech...
DTCC, Clearstream, and Euroclear Collaborate on Digital Asset Ecosystem Framework
Three leading financial market infrastructures – DTCC, Clearstream, and Euroclear – in collaboration with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), have unveiled a blueprint aimed at establishing an industry-wide digital asset ecosystem to drive acceptance of tokenised assets. The paper, “Building the Digital Asset Ecosystem,” highlights a significant $16 trillion business opportunity by 2030 through the tokenisation...
ipushpull and Rapid Addition Partner to Enhance Real-Time Notification Delivery for Trading Teams
ipushpull, the live data sharing platform, and Rapid Addition, specialists in electronic trading infrastructure, have partnered to tackle issues of missed alerts and slow notification delivery for trading support teams. The collaboration aims to provide seamless, real-time distribution of critical data notifications via popular chat platforms such as Symphony, Microsoft Teams, and WhatsApp. The initiative...
Meritsoft Integrates Taskize to Enhance Trade Settlement Efficiency as T+1 Takes Effect
As markets in North America transition to a T+1 settlement cycle this week, Meritsoft, a Cognizant company, has integrated Taskize’s collaboration and workflow functionality into its Trade Tracking and Exception Manager (TTEM) to expedite query resolution and minimise trade settlement failures in the shortened timeframe. Meritsoft’s TTEM platform monitors the entire trade lifecycle, providing near...