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The Battle for Top Talent: Trends Uncovered in Harrington Starr’s Latest Financial Technology Salary Survey
Leading recruitment specialist Harrington Starr has published its highly-anticipated Financial Technology Salary Survey 2023/24, an in-depth report that provides detailed salary trends, hiring demands, and gender diversity statistics across a wide range of job roles in the financial technology industry. A key finding of this year’s report is that following 2022’s boom year for recruitment...
ECB Launches Consultation on Guide Urging Banks to Improve Risk Data Aggregation and Reporting
The European Central Bank (ECB) has launched a public consultation covering its Guide on Effective Risk Data Aggregation and Risk Reporting, noting that ‘adequate capabilities in this area are still the exception, and banks have to improve their risk data aggregation frameworks, also in light of the BCBS principles’. Ultimately, banks are expected to step up...
A-Team Group Releases Institutional Digital Assets Handbook
A-Team Group has this week released the first edition of the Institutional Digital Assets Handbook 2023, an in-depth guide to the institutional digital assets landscape for trading technologists. Financial institutions have demonstrated a marked and noticeable growth in interest in digital assets in recent years. With the potential for assets of all types to be...
FCA Makes Digital Sandbox Permanently Available, Invites Data Providers to Apply to List Data on the Platform
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will make its Digital Sandbox available permanently from 1 August 2023 following two successful pilots. The aim is to open up the platform to a broader range of innovative businesses, start-ups and data providers. The sandbox is a testing environment that enables the FCA to support firms at the early...
Harrington Starr Publishes Financial Technology Salary Survey 2023/24
Harrington Starr has released its Financial Technology Salary Survey 2023/24 – and the news is both good and bad. While the company describes the financial technology market as ‘in the grip of a generational opportunity driven by game-changing market forces’ and ‘extraordinary advances in tech’, particularly in AI, digital assets, cloud and data, firms that...
CRIF and Know Your Customer Help Hong Kong Bank with Client Onboarding
Credit management specialist CRIF and Know Your Customer have partnered to help Ping An OneConnect Bank (Hong Kong) to enhance the digital onboarding process for its small and medium enterprise clients. The initiative is aimed at helping PAOB to meet growing demand for quick-to-access banking services. The new highly scalable and cloud-native solution, developed by...
T+1: Why Equities and FX Must Be in Perfect Harmony
By Vikas Srivastava, Chief Revenue Officer, Integral. Significant enhancements to market structure always result in technological innovation to better enable market participants to handle any changes. With the introduction of T+1 for US securities less than one year away, there are multiple elements that need to be considered. For European and Asian based market participants,...
Trading in the Cloud: What Works and What Doesn’t
By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition. In previous blogs, we’ve explored the factors driving capital markets’ embrace of cloud technologies, the benefits firms are already enjoying from making the move, and some of the obstacles that can derail a cloud migration strategy. What’s clear is that for capital markets, cloud isn’t a panacea but rather...
IPC Systems and CryptoStruct Collaborate to Enhance Connexus Crypto Ecosystem with Enterprise-Grade Data
Communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions provider IPC Systems has partnered with CryptoStruct, a low latency cryptocurrency market data and trading solution vendor. The collaboration aims to deliver enterprise-grade data to IPC’s Connexus Crypto ecosystem and further strengthens IPC’s crypto offering following the company’s recently-announced partnership with Kaiko. Connexus Crypto, launched in November 2021, is IPC’s...
FactSet Acquires Data Management Innovator idaciti
FactSet has acquired idaciti, an innovator in data structuring and collection technology. The acquisition expands FactSet’s multi-year investment program to digitally transform its content collection infrastructure. It also accelerates time-to-market for delivering data sets. Founded in 2015, idaciti applies a taxonomy-first approach to structuring information from company disclosures, regulatory filings, and proprietary document repositories. It...