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Delta Capita Expands CLM Managed Services Following Acquisition of LSEG Onboarding Solution
Delta Capita, a capital markets consulting, managed services and technology provider, is planning to extend its offer of managed services in client lifecycle management (CLM) following the acquisition of LSEG’s client onboarding solution. The LSEG solution is based on Thomson Reuters’ 2013 acquisition of GoldTier Technologies, a provider of client onboarding software. Thomson Reuters Financial...
NeoXam Adds Lion Global Investors to Growing List of APAC Clients
Another win for NeoXam, a provider of data management, reporting, portfolio management and valuation software, in APAC as it enters a collaboration with Singapore-based Lion Global Investors (LGI) to centralise and optimise the asset management company’s investment data and performance reporting across middle and back-office operations. The company recently secured a deal with Platinum Asset...
MENA – A Compelling Capital Markets Destination
As the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region undergoes a significant evolution from its traditional reliance on oil revenues to establishing itself as a dynamic financial market, exchanges and market intermediaries in the region are embracing advanced technologies to support their burgeoning financial services ecosystems. For international firms looking to take advantage of this...
Trading Tech Front and Centre at AFCM Conference in Doha
Last week witnessed an impressive gathering of exchange CEOs and senior market and technology practitioners from across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at the Arab Federation of Capital Markets’ (AFCM) annual conference. At the event – this year in Doha, Qatar, and hosted by AFCM general secretary Rami El-Dokany – leaders met to...
BNP Paribas Becomes First EU G-SIB to Join GLEIF Validation Agent Programme
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) continues to build out the Global LEI System (GLEIS) with the addition of BNP Paribas as a Validation Agent. The addition of BNP Paribas marks the first global systemically important bank (G-SIB) headquartered in the EU to join the Validation Agent programme. Most recently, the GLEIF added Nord...
Out with the Rules: Why MDM Never Delivers on its Promise
By Anthony Deighton, CEO at Tamr. Unifying and managing data across an entire organisation is a battle against siloed systems and inconsistent data standards that reduce operational efficiencies, impair decision-making and compromise customer experiences among many other business impacts. That’s why the promise of Master Data Management (MDM) was so attractive when it first emerged....
Hosting GenAI in the Cloud for RegTech
In his recent letter to shareholders, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon highlighted cloud computing and GenAI as integral components of the firm’s strategy, with 75% of its data and 70% of its applications to be hosted in a combination of public and private clouds this year. Over the past decade, cloud computing has become...
S&P Global’s Cappitech Extends Pirum Collaboration for SEC Rule 10c-1a
Pirum, the London based, post-trade services and securities financing automation vendor and the Cappitech unit of S&P Global Market Intelligence have extended the functionality of their joint Securities Financing Transaction Reporting (SFTR) solution to address the upcoming SEC rule 10c-1a, which covers the reporting of securities lending transactions. The two originally partnered in 2021 to...
ESG Space Has Strengthened Under Pressure, Summit Lead Speaker Says
The ESG space has emerged stronger from a bruising year of criticism, with financial institutions and companies alike taking a more considered approach to integrating sustainability considerations into their operations. That is the message from the lead speaker at this year’s ESG Data and Tech Summit London, who also forecasts that vendors and users will...
FCA Greenwashing Rule Raises Questions Over Data Requirements
The UK will implement its own anti-greenwashing rule at the end of this month but some industry participants are concerned that its data requirements are vague and could be misinterpreted by institutions. The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) rule, part of its broader Sustainability Disclosure Requirement (SDR), expects companies to ensure that any sustainability claims made...