A-Team Insight Author: sharon
Could do Better: Year-End ESG Data Reports Offer Mixed Picture
The growing importance of ESG to the financial system was reflected this year in a greater push among investors and asset managers to address challenges in the data and reporting environment. Several end-of-year snapshots of the ESG sector paint a picture of greater engagement by the financial community in the sources and quality of the...
Clamour for ESG Data Makes Good Management Crucial
ESG data is now core to banks’ and financial institutions’ operations, their compliance and risk processes and the products they offer investors. For that reason, it’s crucial that this data be managed properly and treated in the same way as other datasets. Without good data management, banks can be left commercially and legally exposed, vulnerable...
GLEIF and Swift Reduce Cost of Reconciling Counterparty Data with Certified Mapping of MIC to LEI
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has expanded its collaboration with Swift by providing certification for the mapping of Swift’s Market Identifier Code (MIC) to the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI). The resulting open source file will enable market participants that use GLEIF and/or Swift data to link and cross-reference key entity identifiers free of...
NeoXam Plans Growth and Global Expansion on Brink of €100 Million Investment
Asset management software provider NeoXam is on the brink of raising more than €100 million from French investment company Eurazeo. If the agreed investment is secured, Eurazeo’s small-mid buyout team will take a majority shareholding in NeoXam, with other investors including the company’s founder Serge Delpla and its management team led by Florent Fabre. Previous...
FINRA Outlines Perspective on RegTech
RegTech innovation is commendable, but must be accompanied by risk mitigation, seen as a means to an end rather than an end in itself, and selected for use by a cross-section of an organisation that is inclusive of, but not limited to, IT and compliance. Opening A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit New York with a keynote...
InstrumentiX and FMADIO Launch 100G Combined Capture and Analytics Platform
InstrumentiX, the performance monitoring and analytics solutions provider, and FMADIO, the packet capture appliance vendor, have together released a new 100G capture and analytics platform, the x-100. The x-100 was developed in response to the exponential increase in trading-related data volumes in recent years, which has driven a demand for high-performance capture and analytics to...
Sell-Side Firms Help Buy-Side Clients Meet Reporting Obligations with DTCC Report Hub
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has released Report Hub, an assisted reporting model designed to allow sell-side firms to help buy-side clients with regulatory reporting mandates across 14 jurisdictions. Sell-side firms including prime brokers and clearing brokers can use Report Hub to provide required counterparty trade data to buy-side clients that also use...
Liquidity Risk Spotlight: Increased Regulatory Scrutiny is Our Biggest Threat
Damian Handzy, Managing Director for Performance, Risk and Analytics at Confluence. Inflation and interest rate spikes, the likes of which we haven’t seen in a generation, can cause serious market dislocations and liquidity crunches. Regulators around the world have taken notice. The increasing pressure of regulatory requirements around liquidity risk demands a more precise and...
Creating the Conditions for Real-Time Post-Trade Information
By Russell Levens, US Head of Customer Engagement – Cleared Derivatives, ION Markets. The S&P 500 index recently recorded a new peak in one-month daily volatility, unmatched since early July. Simply put, the industry has tracked a record number of price swings to the upside and the downside, all of significant magnitude, at a time...
Rate of Annual Sanctions Growth Nears 15%, According to Refinitiv Report
The Russia-Ukraine war has caused rapid sanctions inflation since March in several autonomous sanctions programs, contributing to a sanctions inflation rate of 14.6% year on year, compared with 11.2% rate six months ago, according to London Stock Exchange Group’s Refinitiv Global Sanctions Index. Refinitiv’s annual Global Sanctions Index white paper, the second edition of which...