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Swift Adds Compliance Analytics Tool for Network Traffic Data
Swift has extended its Compliance Services portfolio with the addition of Compliance Analytics, a business intelligence tool that aggregates Swift network data to help banks visualise their global transaction flows and identify any unexpected activities. Swift touched on the analytics tool back in January when it discussed its intention to build a portfolio of compliance...
LuxCSD Becomes a pre-Local Operating Unit in the Global LEI System
LuxCSD, a central securities depository jointly owned by the Central Bank of Luxembourg and Clearstream International, has become Luxembourg’s pre-Local Operating Unit (LOU) which, with the help of DTCC, will issue Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) within the Global LEI System. LuxCSD is sponsored as a pre-LOU by the Central Bank of Luxembourg and has been...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: It’s All About the People
Social media is a wonderful thing. It’s how I know that an industry friend is gallivanting around Australia. Or making an intriguing connection with another industry friend. Or has got a new job. This week, LinkedIn yielded a couple of interesting snippets. As you’ll have seen, Kate Toumazi has moved to the new role of...
Kate Toumazi Switches Role to Become Head of Risk and Data Services at Thomson Reuters
Kate Toumazi has moved from the role of global head of front office in the Enterprise Content leadership team at Thomson Reuters to take up the new role of global head of risk and data services in the Pricing and Reference Services leadership team within the company’s risk division. The new role has been designed...
Opinion: From Lehman to Amazon – Rethinking Financial Data Management
By Richard Petti, CEO, Asset Control The tide of regulation is rising inexorably, swamping the financial services sector with ever more prescriptive disclosure requirements; from Dodd-Frank to Basel III and Solvency II, the regulatory response to the enduring financial crisis continues to evolve but the direction of change is constant. It’s widely acknowledged that the...
Johannesburg Stock Exchange Selects Cinnober to Support Strategy for Growth
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s (JSE) partnership with Cinnober to develop a multi-asset clearing platform is expected to deliver not only real-time clearing, but also overall trading improvements and greater market certainty. The contract between Cinnober and the JSE to build a real-time integrated clearing platform initially handling six asset classes was signed last week. Implementation...
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: The Convergence Continues
More evidence this week that market practitioners are embracing intelligence in trading with news that a major global investment bank has implemented a risk and data management platform that appears to make a significant step toward the Holy Grail of incorporating enterprise analytics into the pre-trade decision-making process. This is precisely the kind of thing...
Broadridge Details Rollout of Collateral Management Modules
Broadridge Financial Solutions has beaten its deadline to bring collateral management products based on Lombard Risk Management’s technology to market and set out plans covering development of the product line. The company made its alliance with Lombard Risk public at the end of March 2014 and said products would follow at the end April or...
Morningstar Augments Solvency II Solutions with UBS Delta’s Capital Requirement Calculations
Morningstar UK has extended its range of Solvency II solutions for asset managers through a partnership with UBS Delta that adds fund level Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR) calculations to the company’s fund portfolio holdings data and Solvency II classifications. Morningstar has included fund portfolio holdings data for many years and Solvency II classification data since...
Andbank Selects AIM’s Gain Portfolio Pricing Data Management Application
AIM Software’s business approach to data management has been endorsed by Andbank, a private bank based in Andorra that has gone live with the company’s Gain Portfolio Pricing data management application. The AIM solution was chosen following a comprehensive evaluation and selection process and is being used to service the bank’s primary private banking and...