A-Team Insight Author: sharon
The Challenges and Opportunities of Data Fabric – an Expert Opinion
Data fabric offers the opportunity to scale data management while sustaining flexibility and agility. It also supports the creation of data products in under a day rather than in three months – but as in so many data management scenarios, the outcomes of implementing data fabric depend on the input quality of the data. An...
GoldenSource Plans Product Innovation Following Acquisition by Gemspring Capital
GoldenSource is planning to innovate its enterprise data management (EDM) and master data management (MDM) solutions, and accelerate global growth following its acquisition by Gemspring Capital. Product innovation will include building and buying adjacent solutions to the EDM platform. GoldenSource CEO John Eley, describes the acquisition as a strategic investment in the company’s growth. He...
Snowflake and Pure Storage Partner to Increase Control of On-Premise Data and Support Journey to Cloud
Snowflake has partnered Pure Storage to develop a solution that will increase data accessibility and control for customers with on-premise data. The solution will use Pure’s FlashBlade high performance unified file and object platform to allow analyses of multiple data sources on the platform with the Snowflake data cloud while keeping data local. A public...
Bringing Home the Value of Good Data Governance – and the Risks of Bad Data
Data governance can no longer be seen as a side issue for financial institutions and instead needs to be an integral part of operations that can add huge value – and prevent potentially costly damage. But getting all parts of the business on board with the notion can be a challenge, according to a panel...
True Settlement Efficiency Lies Beneath the Surface of the CSDR Penalties Regime
By Heiko Stuber, senior product manager, financial information, SIX. What trades will we have to pay penalties on and how much will we need to pay? This is still the fundamental question financial institutions face since the Central Securities Depository Regulation (CSDR) Settlement Discipline Regime came into force back in February. But as so often...
Fenergo Addresses Financial Crime Surge with FinCrime Risk Solution
Know Your Customer (KYC) and client lifecycle management (CLM) specialist Fenergo has introduced FinCrime Risk, a SaaS-based solution for automating risk assessment processes and streamlining anti-money laundering (AML) compliance across all business lines and geographical locations. The SaaS-based solution allows financial institutions to conduct risk assessments for clients and counterparties as they attempt to address...
Exegy Acquires FPGA Specialist Enyx
Front-office trading solutions vendor Exegy has added to its product portfolio by acquiring Paris-based Enyx, a leading developer of FPGA-based, high-performance trading solutions. Operating as Exegy Inc., the combined company will now offer a product suite that leverages low-latency field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology at all stages of the trading lifecycle. This builds on Exegy’s...
RepRisk: SFDR Must Go Beyond Disclosures to Capture Full Impact
European ESG legislation is failing to capture and mitigate the true impact of corporate activities on the environment and society, a leading data provider has said, calling for regulators to go beyond relying on company disclosures. Zurich-based RepRisk has argued that the European Union’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) needs to focus on impact, to...
ISS ESG Launches Customisable Tool to Meet Regulatory Requirements
ISS ESG has created a data-rich solution to help fund manufacturers and other asset managers create and manage portfolios that fit their sustainability strategies and comply with evolving global regulations. The Regulatory Sustainable Investment Solution (RSI) enables market participants to establish the proportion of their investments that adhere to customisable sustainability thresholds. The product if...
LedgerEdge Launches Corporate Bond Trading Platform Built on R3’s Corda DLT
Financial technology vendor LedgerEdge has launched a what it believes is the first regulated corporate bond trading platform built using distributed ledger technology (DLT), the technology that underpins blockchain ecosystems and digital markets. By building an ecosystem using DLT, LedgerEdge aims to modernize institutional-grade trading services and protocols in the $41 trillion global corporate bond...