A-Team Insight Author: sharon
Alveo Takes Next Step in Cloud Data Management with Cloud Native Version of Prime
Alveo has made its Prime data mastering and quality management solution cloud native, placing it between cloud-native data platforms and consumers, and providing functionality to make cloud data meaningful and valuable to business use cases. “There is a lot of data in cloud marketplaces,” says Mark Hermeling, chief technology officer at Alveo. But three things...
Business Identity in the Digital Economy: A Global Problem Needs a Global Solution
By Stephan Wolf, CEO of the Global LEI Foundation. Businesses today face significant pressure to go digital. Government and private sector organisations around the world are racing to digitise processes, products, and services – even national currencies – to remove friction, save money, streamline operations, and improve user experiences. Despite the tremendous benefits it delivers,...
FCA Fines Citigroup Global Markets £12.5 Million for Market Abuse Failings
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued Citigroup Global Markets with a fine of more than £12 million for failing to properly implement the EU’s Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) trade surveillance requirements. The failure meant that Citigroup Global Markets could not effectively monitor its trading activities for certain types of insider dealing and market...
SEC No-Action Lapse Poses Threat to Investment Research Flows, Survey Finds
Last month’s SEC decision to allow its MiFID II research no-action letter to lapse could damage relationships between European/global asset managers and US brokers, potentially disrupting the investment research market, according to a report by Substantive Research, which operates a research analysis and delivery platform. The SEC’s no-action letter – now set to expire in...
The Post-Trade Challenge for Market Makers
Brian Collings, CEO at Torstone Technology. Market makers, critical to providing fast liquidity to both retail and institutional financial firms, are facing new challenges in a rapidly changing market. The global economy is becoming increasingly interconnected and borderless, particularly in the emerging digital asset space, and market makers are no different. As volatility and trading...
A-Team Webinar to Discuss Adding Cloud to High Performance Trading Infrastructure
The cloud is playing an ever greater role in financial markets, and firms across the sector – buy side, sell side and trading venues – are increasingly looking at how to make best use of it within their trading infrastructure, given the benefits that cloud offers in terms of its elasticity & scalability, the rapid...
Coriolis Brings ESG Trade Finance Data to TradeSun Partnership
Trade finance data specialist Coriolis Technologies is to provide sustainability content to RegTech vendor TradeSun, a move that comes as regulators tighten controls around reporting supply-chain ESG performance. The UK-based company will feed TradeSun’s financial institution clients with ratings and scores generated by its ESG Tracker service, which covers companies linked to import and export...
Oxford Academics to Probe Climate Data Quality Challenges
An academic study by the University of Oxford is probing the challenges associated with climate data used by financial institutions, including what constitutes good quality information. The research by the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group (OSFG) hopes to be able to establish a baseline for ESG data quality that will provide financial firms with the tools...
Data is Holding Back ESG Sleeping Giant Africa
Africa is shaking off its reputation as an ESG backwater. Major index compilers now offer ESG equities indexes, governments are encoding sustainable finance regulations and green investments are rolling in. Holding back the development of a flourishing sustainable finance market in this ESG sleeping giant, however, is the absence of good quality ESG data. While...
DSB Opens Applications for Membership of Technology Advisory Committee
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) is calling for additional members to join its Technology Advisory Committee (TAC). Successful applicants will take part in the next term of the TAC, which starts in October 2022. To apply, send a covering email to the TAC Secretariat at DSB.TAC@ANNA-DSB.com, along with a copy of your CV. The application...