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AIM Software Wins Corporate Actions Client in the Netherlands
AIM Software has secured its fifth customer in the Netherlands, a large European asset manager that is using the company’s GAIN Corporate Actions DM application to automate the processing of corporate actions. AIM won the contract in a competitive selection process and was favoured on the basis of the application’s integration with SimCorp Dimension, the...
SunGard Builds on APT Risk Engine to Deliver Integrated Risk Management Service
SunGard has introduced a hosted risk management service based on the APT risk engine that has been deployed by many of its institutional buy-side clients. The so-called APT Enterprise platform embeds the risk engine and market data in a single, accessible data repository and offers users an interactive dashboard and browser-based delivery. APT Enterprise was...
GFT Blue Paper Presents the Potential of Big Data Technologies
As the technology infrastructure of financial services firms begins to buckle under the strain of huge and increasing volumes of data, many firms are investing in big data projects to improve data management for the purposes of regulatory compliance, risk reduction, cost efficiency and business benefit. The extent and intent of investment varies, however, with...
Bloomberg Promotes FIGI as Primary Global Security Identifier
Bloomberg plans to rename its Bloomberg Global Identifier (BBGID) as the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) with a view to making it the world’s primary standard for securities identification ahead of the International Securities Identification Number (ISIN). Bloomberg’s move follows last week’s release by the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) of an update to...
AxiomSL Offers Support for BCBS 239 Compliance
AxiomSL, a provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions, has combined functionality of its ControllerView platform to support clients that must comply with the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s regulation 239: Principles for Effective Risk Data Aggregation and Risk Reporting. BCBS 239 includes a series of 14 principles providing guidance on how banks should...
Tom Dalglish Starts at SmartStream with a Transformation Project at Société Générale
Just weeks after moving on from iGate Global Solutions to join SmartStream Technologies as head of transformation services, Tom Dalglish is in Paris, working on a project at Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) that will manage and optimise the bank’s back-office securities processing. The project is led by Accenture Post-Trade Processing (APTP),...
Feedzai Partners Azul Systems to Deliver Ultra-Fast Fraud Prevention Solutions
Azul Systems has signed up Feedzai, a company that uses real-time, machine-based learning to analyse big data in commerce, as an independent software vendor that will use its Zing Java virtual machine (JVM) to power ultra-fast processing of big data within the Feedzai Fraud Prevention That Learns software. In the financial services sector, Feedzai works...
Sun Street Taking a Different Approach to Data Governance
With an increasing industry focus on data governance, one vendor has been taking a different approach to managing data quality from a business point-of-view by providing exceptions workflow, a range of data enquiry tools, and ‘what-if’ scenarios for data sourcing, all of which sit on top of a financial institutions’ existing data architecture. Sun Street...
A-Team Group Webinar Describes a Buy-and-Build Approach to Developing Agile Trading Systems
Agile trading systems are key to market differentiation, but rather than following the well-trodden path of building proprietary systems, firms are beginning to favour a buy-and-build approach that not only meets immediate needs, but also accommodates rapid development to meet evolving trading and customer requirements. Hosting an A-Team Group webinar entitled How to Create an...
Shenzhen Stock Exchange Selects Kx Systems kdb+ for Data Analytics
The Laboratory for Financial Innovation at China’s Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) is implementing Kx Systems’ kdb+ high-performance database and programming language as the basis of a data analysis platform for market risk assessment, market performance analysis and trading simulations. The Laboratory provides internal services to the exchange and before selecting the Kx Systems solution was...