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SimCorp and Alloy Partnership Enables Institutional Investors to Manage Digital Assets on SimCorp Platform
SimCorp, a subsidiary of Deutsche Börse Group and provider of investment management solutions for the buy-side, and Alloy, a provider of institutional infrastructure and technology for digital assets, have formed a strategic partnership that will allow SimCorp clients to manage digital asset investments. The partnership will enable mutual clients to holistically manage digital assets, including...
Tech Trends in Trading: Industry Experts Review 2023 and Look Ahead to 2024
As 2023 draws to a close, it’s time to look back at some of the more interesting trends that have emerged in the trading technology space over the last twelve months, and to take a look ahead at what 2024 might have in store. With this in mind, TradingTech Insight reached out to a group...
Pzena Up and Running with Portfolio Optimisation on Rimes Matrix Platform
Pzena Investment Management, an investment manager based in New York City with a focus on long-term classic value investing, is in production on Rimes’ Matrix investment management platform with the aim of supporting efforts to streamline operations, mitigate risk, and enhance portfolio optimisation capabilities. Rimes engaged with Pzena in February 2023 and the solution went...
Banks’ PRIIPS Headache Set to Intensify as Capital Markets Union Regulation Ramps Up
By Kifaya Belkaaloul, head of regulatory at NeoXam. Over the past decade, the European Union has rolled out a host of new regulations aimed at fostering more competitive capital markets and mobilising private investment towards critical goals including the digital transition and climate emergency. One of the EU’s core levers for enacting change has been...
Confluence Partners Manaos to Provide SFDR Reporting Solution
Confluence Technologies, a solutions provider helping investment managers solve complex data challenges, has partnered Manaos, the investment data management platform designed and incubated by the securities services business of BNP Paribas, to provide a reporting solution for Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR). The partnership allows Confluence to provide an end-to-end SFDR solution to asset managers...
UK Regulators Consult on Proposals to Strengthen Resilience of Services Provided by Critical Third Parties
The Bank of England, Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) are consulting on proposals to oversee and strengthen the resilience of services provided by critical third parties (CTPs) to UK regulated financial services firms and financial market infrastructure entities. The proposals set out in the consultation paper follow Parliament’s adoption of the...
Informatica Accelerates Data Integration and Replication in Snowflake Ecosystem
Informatica has added three product capabilities to bring greater simplicity, speed, and performance to data integration and replication for customers in the Snowflake ecosystem. The products include Informatica Superpipe for Snowflake that delivers up to 3.5x faster ingestion and replication into Snowflake. Superpipe uses capabilities of Snowflake’s Snowpipe streaming and Informatica’s cloud data integration platform...
Bloomberg, MarketAxess, and Tradeweb Abandon Joint Fixed Income Consolidated Tape Venture
In a statement released on Friday, Bloomberg, MarketAxess, and Tradeweb jointly announced their decision to halt their plans around the establishment of a fixed income consolidate tape (CTP) in the EU and UK. Earlier this year, in a strategic move designed to improve the fixed income ecosystem, the three companies signed a joint venture agreement...
big xyt Partners with Baillie Gifford to Launch Portfolio Liquidity Analysis Solution for Dilution Levy Calculation
big xyt, the independent data and analytics solutions provider, has launched a new tool to automate the process of dilution. The Portfolio Liquidity Analysis solution, developed in collaboration with Baillie Gifford, is designed to enhance buy-side firms’ understanding of equity portfolio liquidity and to address the forthcoming industry guidance on the application of dilution levies....
Re-imagining the User Experience: LSEG’s Workspace Strategy
Earlier this year, the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) announced that it was on track to transition all Refinitiv Eikon clients to Workspace, LSEG’s next generation workflow platform, by the end of 2024, and that it intended to shut down Eikon in 2025. Over 50% of clients have now been migrated to the new platform,...