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Overnight Trading Specialist Blue Ocean to Deploy S3 for CAT Reporting
Blue Ocean Technologies’ Blue Ocean ATS trading platform has selected S3, a regulatory reporting and trading analytics provider, for reporting to the US Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT). Blue Ocean Technologies specialises in global afterhours trading. According to Matthew Horisk, Chief Information & Operating Officer for Blue Ocean Technologies, “Utilizing S3’s CAT Reporting Service will be...
Vontobel Expands Deployment of NICE Actimize Markets Surveillance Platform
Swiss investment firm Vontobel has renewed its contract with NICE Actimize, and expanded its use of the SURVEIL-X Markets Surveillance platform. The broadened arrangement will support Vontobel’s future growth plans while continuing to meet its current regulatory requirements. The new arrangement allows long-time NICE Actimize client Vontobel to add new capabilities going forward. Vontobel’s use...
Murex Offers Cloud Connectivity via AWS to LSEG’s Real-Time Data Services
Murex, the trading, risk and processing solutions provider for capital markets, has added a cloud hosting and delivery option for clients seeking to integrate real-time data from the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) with its MX.3 trading and risk management platform. Using the new capability, customers will be able to access LSEG’s Real-Time Optimized solution...
Data Innovator Tanya Seajay Takes Engaging Next Step in ESG Evolution
After almost a decade at the helm of one of the ESG space’s most innovative data companies, Tanya Seajay took a wellness break. With her departure from Orenda, the alternative data company she founded and built into a ground-breaking vendor of ESG sentiment data, she wanted time to think over her next move. “I just...
VerifyVASP Becomes First LEI Validation Agent Operating Exclusively in Crypto and Digital Asset Trading
VerifyVASP, a Singapore-based RegTech solution provider to virtual asset service providers (VASPs), has joined the Global LEI System as a validation agent. The company is the first validation agent to operate exclusively in the crypto and digital asset trading space. As a validation agent, VerifyVASP can help obtain Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) for its VASP...
ESG Data and Tech Summit Report: Coming to Terms with Climate Risks
Quantifying risks to assets posed by changes in the climate and companies’ transitions to meeting net-zero carbon goals are being baked into organisations’ risk-management workflows. What many had regarded as a conceptual risk has become an apparent one, as the increased occurrence of severe weather events caused by global warming have led to record levels...
Fusion Digital Assets Platform, Powered by GMEX Technologies, Goes Live with First Successful Cryptoasset Trade
TP ICAP, the world’s largest interdealer broker, has announced the launch of Fusion Digital Assets, its wholesale cryptoasset exchange, powered by trading and post-trade technology from GMEX Technologies, the subsidiary of GMEX Group that specialises in digital business and technology solutions for capital markets firms, exchanges and post-trade market infrastructure. The Fusion Digital Assets platform...
Informatica Integrates Intelligent Data Management Cloud with Microsoft Fabric
Informatica, a provider of enterprise data management, has integrated its cloud-native, generative AI-powered Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) with Microsoft Fabric, a unified data and analytics product released this week. Fabric integrates technologies such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Power BI, allowing data and business professionals to unlock the potential of their...
Bloomberg, MarketAxess, and Tradeweb Form Joint Venture to Pursue EU Fixed Income Consolidated Tape Provider Role
Bloomberg, MarketAxess, and Tradeweb have signed a joint venture agreement to form an independent company to participate in the public procurement procedure to become the fixed income consolidated tape provider (CTP) for the European Union, all of which will be subject to regulatory approvals. Neil Ryan, who has over three decades of experience in the...
ESG Data and Tech Summit Report: Pivotal Year that Reshaped ESG
The past year was a pivotal one for ESG, with bold new regulations and political challenges emerging for market participants. But the biggest change may have come from financial institutions themselves as they signalled that sustainability had become fully embedded within their operations. No longer is ESG seen as simply an onerous obligation, it’s now...