A-Team Insight Author: sharon
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...
RepRisk Launches Biodiversity Data Tool for Extractives Projects
ESG data provider RepRisk has launched a new biodiversity impact tool for investors, the latest product that seeks to provide visibility into one of the fastest-growing parts of the green economy. RepRisk Geospatial Analytics offers managers and owners of mining, oil and gas assets a detailed view of the proximity of their projects to natural...
A-Team Group Names Winners of RegTech Insight Awards – USA 2022
Congratulations to the winners of A-Team Group’s RegTech Insight Awards – USA 2022. The awards were presented by Sarah Underwood, Editor, A-Team Group during a lively drinks reception following A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit New York on 16 November 2022. The RegTech Insight Awards recognise both established solution providers and innovative newcomers providing RegTech solutions that...
Refinitiv and MayStreet – Traversing the Latency Spectrum
Following its acquisition of Refinitiv in 2021, to expand its Data and Analytics business, LSEG signed an agreement to buy US-based market data solutions vendor MayStreet in May this year. MayStreet was founded in 2012 by two market data practitioners, Michael Lehr & Patrick Flannery. After graduating from Rochester University with a degree in computer...
Trading Technologies Expands Risk Management Offering and Post-Trade Allocation Services
Trading Technologies, the trading software, infrastructure and data solutions vendor, through its partnership with KRM22, the risk management software company, is making the KRM22 Risk Manager available to customers on the TT platform. Incorporating KRM22’s real-time post-trade risk service will significantly enhance TT’s risk toolset, according to a recent company announcement. KRM22’s risk scoring system...
Fenergo Study Reveals True Cost of KYC
A global study of more than 1,000 C-level executives across corporate and institutional banks, published by client-onboarding specialist Fenergo, offers a view on how much of a burden KYC represents for many institutions. Financial institutions are spending millions of dollars every year inefficiently onboarding and maintaining clients, according to the research. The survey, conducted in August...
Making the Case for Master Data Management
Master data management (MDM) is not a new concept for capital markets participants, but it can be an effective approach to data management when financial institutions face rising costs of ingesting, holding and using data, or when they restructure. Its benefits include streamlining workflows, reducing input error, lowering costs and unlocking the full value of...
Qlik Releases Cloud Data Integration Enabling Enterprise Data Fabric
Qlik, a provider of real-time data integration and analytics to industry sectors including financial services, has released Qlik Cloud Data Integration. The solution offers an enterprise integration platform as a service (eiPaaS) and is designed to support data strategy by leveraging a real-time data integration fabric that connects all enterprise applications and data sources to...
COP27 Announcements Highlight Critical Role of ESG Data
The COP27 climate summit in Egypt has put ESG data firmly in the spotlight as a key enabler of the financial sector’s critical role in solving the global sustainability challenges. From the formal unveiling of a global plan to make sustainability data accessible to every investor to the announcement of further progress in narrowing in...
Archax Raises $28.5m in Series A Funding
Archax, the UK FCA-regulated digital asset exchange, brokerage and custodian, has closed a Series A funding round of $28.5 million, with investors including abrdn as lead strategic investor, alongside Bitrock Capital, Blockchain Coinvestors, CE Innovation Capital, Keiretsu Capital, Lingfeng Capital, Mathrix AG, SGH Capital, The Tezos Foundation and others. Archax is the UK’s first digital...