A-Team Insight Author: sharon
Qlik Extends Cloud Analytics Services for Snowflake
Qlik, a provider of real-time data integration and analytics, has extended its cloud analytics services for Snowflake with features designed to help customers drive more value from near real-time data when deploying Qlik’s cloud platform alongside Snowflake. The additional Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) capabilities include Direct Query and enhanced Qlik Cloud Data Services for Snowflake. Direct Query...
Plenitude Targets Financial Crime Risk with ClientSight CRR Solution
Financial crime risk specialist Plenitude has launched ClientSight, a cloud-based client risk rating (CRR) solution. The platform is aimed at helping financial institutions, fintechs and professional services firms to assess the financial crime risk of both individuals and entities. ClientSight seeks to address regulators’ heightened activity around financial crime and sanctions. CRR is a key...
Educating Retail: Lessons from the Terra-Luna Collapse
By Joe Jowett, CEO, StrikeX. The collapse of Terra has been one of the most significant events in the digital assets marketplace this year. The gains in the sector during the pandemic are now well-documented – Coinbase’s user base more than doubled between late 2019 and 2021 and Bitcoin saw a 300% increase in valuation...
DTCC Automates Voluntary Corporate Actions Lifecycle
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has made a further move to fully automate the corporate actions lifecycle with the processing of the US market’s first automated voluntary reorganisation ISO 20022 instruction. The process was carried out by DTCC subsidiary The Deposit Trust Company (DTC) using its newly automated voluntary reorganisation service, which is...
A-Team Group Names Winners of 2022 TradingTech Insight Awards USA
A-Team Group announced the 2022 winners of its acclaimed TradingTech Insight (TTI) Awards USA today. The awards recognise excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets, and focus on vendors providing exceptional and innovative trading infrastructure, technology, and data solutions dedicated to the challenges faced by firms operating in the US trading environment. This...
Nasdaq Looks to Long-Term ESG Evolution with Metrio Purchase
Nasdaq has sought to future-proof itself for growth in the sustainability data market with the acquisition of ESG metrics software provider Metrio. The American capital markets services giant purchased the Montreal, Canada-based company earlier this month, and will make the technology available to Nasdaq clients, enabling them to gather, process and publish data on their...
Data Methodology Harmonisation may be no Panacea, Expert Warns
Volker Lainer raised eyebrows when he told the recent A-Team ESG Data and Tech Summit London that he saw a role for multiple methodologies used to calculate sustainability ratings and collate datasets. The Head of Data Connections, ESG and Regulatory Affairs at enterprise data management firm GoldenSource even went as far as saying that a...
A-Team Group Releases the Third Edition of its Trading Regulations Handbook
A-Team Group is delighted to announce the publication of its Trading Regulations Handbook 2022, the third edition of its guide to financial markets regulations for trading technologists. With trading regulations constantly being updated, unforeseen risks continually emerging, social and environmental movements transforming the market, and digital technologies evolving rapidly, it is more essential than ever...
Don’t Miss It! A-Team Group’s Innovation Briefing on Cloud in London on 7 July
Demand for digital transformation, the acceleration of cloud adoption, and a desire for real-time data management are pressing financial institutions to rethink and modernise IT infrastructure to enable more agile operating models that can respond quickly to change, support immediate and accurate decision making, and use data as both a competitive advantage and revenue generator....
Know Your Customer Offers Company Data from Local Registries Across 123 Countries
Know Your Customer has released an expanded version of its Know your Customer/Know Your Business (KYC/KYB) solution that covers company data and official incorporation documents from 123 countries worldwide. The data can be consumed using either Know Your Customer’s user interface or a single API. The expanded service provides real-time access to local company registries...