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How to Achieve Successful Data Transformation for Long Term Business Value
Demonstrating business value from data transformation pivots on quick wins with measurable outcomes, a focus on data quality, developing a strong data culture, ensuring management buy-in, and dealing with everyday change such as the forthcoming implementation of Consumer Duty Regulation. A CDO panel at A-Team Group’s recent Data Management Summit London dived into the detail...
Finastra ESG Service Seeks to Automate ESG Loan Premia Calculation for Banks
Loan pricing is a complicated business that’s being given an added shot of complexity by the requirement that borrowers’ ESG-linked performance be factored into the calculations. It’s a challenge that financial technology provider Finastra has sought to solve with a new “standalone” solution to complement its widely used Loan IQ corporate lending servicing system. The...
KX Offers Data Timehouse Platform on Microsoft Azure
FD Technologies, which acquired Kx Systems in 2018, has announced general availability of kdb Insights Enterprise on Microsoft Azure, an enterprise ready, real-time analytics engine with the kdb time series database (kdb) at its core, and running natively on Azure. FD says the solution represents the industry’s first Data Timehouse, a new class of data...
Optimising ISO 20022 for Cross-Border Payments
Why the LEI and BIC are a Perfect Fit for a Truly Global Identification Scheme By Clare Rowley, Head of Business Operations, GLEIF. Challenges in the cross-border payments market include high costs, low speed, limited access, and insufficient transparency. In October 2020, the G20 endorsed a roadmap to enhance cross-border payments. The roadmap was developed...
TNS Implements Cloud-Based Trading Infrastructure Solution for Coinbase Derivatives Exchange
Transaction Network Services (TNS), provider of mission-critical infrastructure, connectivity, market data and analytic services for the Financial Markets community, has announced the deployment of a cloud-based financial trading infrastructure solution for the Coinbase Derivatives Exchange (CDE), bolstering the regulated futures exchange with improved network access and stability. The deployed solution features TNS’s recently unveiled Dedicated...
Parameta Solutions Gains Dual Authorisation as an ESMA-Approved Benchmark Administrator
Parameta Solutions, the global provider of over-the-counter (OTC) market data and a subsidiary of TP-ICAP, the world’s largest interdealer broker, has received approval as an ESMA-authorised benchmark administrator. This development establishes Parameta Solutions as the first data provider to administer OTC benchmarks and indices across Europe and the UK, positioning the company to deliver high...
Crédit Agricole CIB and SEB Unveil so|bond: A Sustainable, Blockchain-based Digital Bond Platform
Crédit Agricole CIB and SEB have announced the launch of so|bond, a sustainable and open digital bond platform powered by blockchain technology. The platform will allow issuers in capital markets to issue digital bonds on a blockchain network, enhancing efficiency and enabling real-time data synchronisation among participants. The blockchain network utilises a unique validation protocol...
Data Start-up SparkChange Helps Investors Meet Climate Goals Via Carbon Markets
Jan Ahrens believes the majority of environmental sustainability investment theses are wrong. The problem, says the carbon markets economist, is that most strategies are built to reward companies that are environmentally clean and not also those that are striving to be clean. “It misses the mark of decarbonisation, because if we make it easy for...
SteelEye Integrates ChatGPT into Compliance Platform, Enhancing Market Surveillance Capabilities
SteelEye, the integrated surveillance solutions provider, has successfully incorporated ChatGPT 4 into its comprehensive compliance platform. The move comes as part of a case study aimed at assessing the AI tool’s potential in market surveillance applications. The case study findings indicate that, when implemented correctly and used judiciously, ChatGPT can substantially benefit surveillance investigations. By...
Why Tokenisation Can Turn the Noble Metal into Liquid Gold
By Anoushka Rayner, Head of Growth – Commodities at Paxos. Almost fifty years on from the termination of the gold standard, tokenisation is creating new possibilities for the noble metal – gold. The end of the Breton Woods system, which placed gold at the heart of currency valuation and thus international trade and financial markets,...