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Nice Actimize Integrates with Alacra to Deliver Automated Customer Due Diligence Suite
Nice Actimize has pulled together its customer due diligence anti-money laundering software and Alacra’s Compliance Enterprise customer onboarding data platform to deliver the Actimize Customer Due Diligence (CDD) Suite, an enterprise solution that automates onboarding and ongoing customer risk profiles. The Actimize CDD Suite allows banks to manage CDD operations centrally and support multiple Know...
SS&C Technologies Gets Clearance to Acquire Advent Software
SS&C Technologies has been given the go-ahead for its acquisition of Advent Software by the US Department of Justice. The companies reached a definitive agreement on the $2.7 billion acquisition back in February and now expect the transaction to close in the third quarter of this year. The acquisition of Advent is one of 40...
Mirror Blockchain-Based Trading Platform Gets $8.8 Million Funding
By Zoe Schiff The idea that blockchain technology can aid in the development of real world trading technology gained more credence this month with the news that Mirror – a trading platform operator formerly known as Vaurum – has received $8.8 million in Series A funding from investors led by Route 66 Ventures. San Francisco-based...
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Approaching the Low-Latency Endgame?
We’ve been tracking the developments in the high frequency trading technology space since the launch of Low-Latency.com in 2006 or thereabouts. Now retired and living near Heathrow – or rather, reincarnated as Intelligent Trading Technology – she watches with interest as the superfast aspect of our marketplace finally approaches the endgame, where physics finally says...
DTCC Recommends Data Harmonisation Across Trade Repositories
DTCC has recommended that global trade repositories in the OTC derivatives market should harmonise 30 data fields that are critical to financial stability and systemic risk analysis. The company, which operates Global Trade Repository, the industry’s largest derivatives trade reporting service spanning nine jurisdictions, made its recommendations this week to the harmonisation working group overseen...
Broadridge Offers Multi-Tenant Managed Data Service with Focus on Data Quality
Broadridge has built on its experience of delivering managed services for reference data with the provision of a multi-tenant managed service that has a focus on data quality and is designed for both buy and sell side firms. The Broadridge Managed Data Service covers terms and conditions, pricing and valuations, and corporate actions data across...
Symbiont Sets Out Plans for its Smart Securities Technology
Symbiont is planning to issue its first private equity shares as smart securities on the bitcoin blockchain next month with a view to demonstrating its capabilities to financial institutions interested in programmable securities that are stored on a cryptographic distributed ledger called a blockchain. Beyond the demonstration, the company aims to offer a service based...
AxiomSL Offers AnaCredit Reporting and Prepares for CRS and MiFID II
AxiomSL is ready to support the reporting requirements of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) Analytical Credit Dataset (AnaCredit) regulation, which is expected to affect a large number of financial institutions in the European Union and is due to be implemented in stages from the end of 2017. AnaCredit aims to create a central register of...
Electronifie Provides All-to-All Platform for Corporate Bond Trading
Electronifie is challenging problems of liquidity and information leakage in the US corporate bond market with an electronic trading platform that connects buyers and sellers directly but anonymously, limits market impact and generates liquidity. The company was set up by former Goldman Sachs trader and SEC executive Amar Kuchinad in downtown New York in March...
Time to put Legal Contract Data Front & Centre
By Akber Datoo, Founder and Partner, D2 Legal Technology LLP Every financial institution knows the essential importance of legal contract information – it underpins everything from regulatory compliance and the management/optimisation of capital, liquidity and collateral. So why are just 16% of organisations completely satisfied with the current level of contract data accuracy? The implications...