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SteelEye Introduces Compliance CoPilot to Enhance Communication Surveillance
Following its integration of ChatGPT 4 into its compliance platform earlier this year, surveillance solutions vendor Steeleye has launched the Compliance CoPilot, an AI-driven compliance tool that harnesses the power of advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) to streamline the communication surveillance alert review process. As regulatory bodies worldwide continue to impose fines on investment banks...
Rimes Releases Data lakehouse Designed to Provide Insights from Diverse Data Sources
Rimes has released the Rimes data lakehouse, a service that combines the advantages of a data lake and a data warehouse to enable asset managers and owners to quickly access structured and unstructured data and derive valuable insights from diverse data sources. The lakehouse comprises an advanced data storage, processing and distribution platform delivered as...
ICE Chief Development Officer Chris Edmonds Steps Up to Lead Fixed Income and Data Services Business
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has named Christopher Edmonds, currently chief development officer, to succeed Amanda Hindlian and lead the company’s Fixed Income and Data Services (FIDS) business. FIDS is the company’s second largest business segment and was founded on ICE’s October 2015 $5.2 billion acquisition of Interactive Data Corporation. Edmonds has held several roles at ICE...
ANNA Introduces ISINs to Identify Crypto Assets
The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) and the Digital Token Identifier Foundation (DTIF) have reached a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that will allow phased introduction of new ISINs to identify crypto assets. This is expected to optimise and automate more comprehensive data sets within the ISO standard registries operated by ANNA and DTIF. The...
BSO and CryptoStruct Enhance Cryptocurrency Trading Connectivity and Aggregated Feed
BSO, the global infrastructure and connectivity provider, has extended its collaboration with CryptoStruct, the market data and trading solution provider for algorithmic traders in cryptocurrency markets, to provide seamless low-latency connectivity between cryptocurrency exchanges and to deliver consolidated market data through a single aggregated feed. BSO and CryptoStruct’s engineering teams have been working together since...
DTCC Trade Reporting Analytics Aims to Help Firms Facing Rule Rewrites
DTCC has launched Trade Reporting Analytics and UTI Exchange as part of its DTCC Report Hub pre- and post-trade reporting platform. The new capabilities are aimed at helping firms as they prepare for a series of rewrites to various trade reporting regulations globally. Report Hub is a cloud-based reporting facility that helps firms meet derivatives...
Unlocking the Potential of AI in AML
By Steve Marshall, Director of Advisory Services, FinScan. AI has been increasingly used over the last few years to combat financial crime and money laundering. While it may not have lived up to its original billing as a silver bullet, some key lessons have been learned since those early days. Firstly, while AI has many...
Growing, Not Wavering: Data Suggests ESG is Defying its Critics
A recent survey of hiring patterns among ESG data professionals will cheer market participants who repudiate claims that the sustainable investment movement is on the wane. Asset managers dedicated a tenth of their ESG recruitment expenditure to hiring data integration and analytics expertise in the past year as they stepped up reporting of ESG metrics....
Trading South Africa’s Financial Markets – Technology Considerations, Challenges and Opportunities
The Republic of South Africa (RSA) stands apart from many other African nations, in that it benefits from a mature, well-structured and dynamic financial market environment, supported by modern technology, and backed by robust regulations. And despite various global and domestic challenges and uncertain macroeconomic conditions, the country has managed to maintain a strong growth...
DTCC Agrees to Acquire Blockchain-Based Financial Technology Firm Securrency Inc.
DTCC, the financial markets infrastructure provider, has announced its agreement to acquire Securrency Inc., a developer of institutional-grade digital asset infrastructure. By merging industry best practices with cutting-edge digital technology, the move aims to further the institutional acceptance and integration of digital assets. “Securrency is an important strategic acquisition that will give us the technology...