A-Team Insight Author: sharon
BMLL Launches Data Visualisation Tool for Equities and ETFs
BMLL, the independent provider of financial market data and analytics, has launched BMLL Vantage, a no-code data and analytics visual application that gives market participants visual access to full depth order book data for US and European equities and ETFs. BMLL has a strong track record in making Level 3 historical data and analytics available...
Know Your Customer and HAWK AI Partner to Strengthen Defence Against Financial Crime
Know Your Customer, a provider of modular digital client onboarding solutions, and Hawk AI, a provider of anti-money laundering surveillance technology for financial institutions, payment firms and fintechs, have made a strategic partnership that will build a stronger defence against financial crime. The partnership combines Know Your Customer’s digital onboarding and business KYC solutions with...
EU Publishes Mandate for Use of UPI Alongside LEI in OTC Derivatives Transaction Reporting
The Official Journal of the European Union has published the requirement for the Unique Product Identifier (UPI), created and distributed by the Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB), to be part of EU law. The mandate is included in the EMIR Refit publication and makes the EU the first jurisdiction among the G20 to enforce use of...
How Well Does Your Company Really Know its Sanctions Chain?
By Jay Rao, Co-founder of KYC Hub. The war in the Ukraine brought a slew of sanctions from across the globe, creating a spider’s web that continues to be recast, is both complex and powerful, and gets added to and changed all the time. What’s more, if any part of the web is damaged or...
Preparing for a Period of Regulatory Change
Murray Campbell, Business Consultant at AutoRek, considers how the compliance regime for UK financial services firms is changing and how outsourcing can help firms manage the regulatory burden. In recent years, the UK financial services industry has found itself with an opportunity to redefine the compliance landscape. Brexit has allowed the UK to break away...
Overbond Partners with MTS and Releases New AI-Driven Margin Optimisation Model
Overbond, the API-based credit trading automation and execution service, has entered into a data sharing and redistribution agreement with MTS BondsPro, the all-to-all fixed income trading platform. By partnering with MTS BondsPro, Overbond will enhance its AI-generated fixed income data feeds and automated trading solutions by integrating an additional 10 million price updates daily, across...
Data Quality and Management Crucial to Effective ESG Analysis
Analytics are helping financial institutes mine crucial insights from ESG data that’s helping to guide their decision-making processes. Analyses that can surface investment and hedging strategies, shape risk positioning and streamline regulatory compliance all work best when those datasets are properly managed. But ingesting information and making it useable remains a fundamental challenge, especially because...
As Biodiversity Climbs the ESG Agenda, ISS Unveils Nature-Linked Products
Institutional Shareholder Services’ (ISS) has launched a suite of nature- and natural resources-linked products as biodiversity protection and risk mitigation rise in prominence on among investor concerns. ISS ESG’s Biodiversity Impact Assessment Tool and the latest addition to its ESG indices, the Freshwater Index Series, are intended to give financial institutions better visibility into the...
Exchange Data International Releases Readable Corporate Action Notices
Exchange Data International (EDI) has released Readable Corporate Action Notices (RCAN), a solution designed to enable personnel in front- and middle-office buy-side firms to read corporate action notices in the same way as they read news. RCAN is based on machine learning and was developed by EDI. It covers 45 corporate events, including dividends, mergers...
How to Get Ahead on the Data Governance Journey
Data governance that delivers benefits to the business needs to pull together people, process and technology by embracing data ownership, managing metadata, ensuring data quality, and continually improving automation. These are just some of the guidelines for successful data governance set out by a panel of experts at A-Team Group’s recent Data Management Summit in...