A-Team Insight Author: sharon
MiFID II Hampers Competition in Research Provision, Substantive Survey Finds
Competition in the marketplace for the provision of investment research has been weakened by MiFID II as buy-side firms lean more heavily on their core brokers. That’s the finding of a recent survey of 40 investment managers by research analytics provider Substantive Research. The Substantive Survey, which set out to identify recent research pricing trends...
Streamlining the Full Trade Lifecycle Through Modularity & Interoperability
For broker-dealers, collapsing technology silos across the front, middle and back office has become increasingly important in the relentless drive towards cost reduction and greater efficiency. As technology has advanced, forward-looking firms are taking an enlightened approach to technology development and investing in consolidation across the entire trade lifecycle. Not only does this present an...
SEC Climate-Reporting Announcement Raises TCFD Expectations
The American financial regulator’s long-awaited announcement that it would force banks and other institutions to reveal climate impact data in their regular reporting has prompted many to suggest the disclosure framework it has chosen to follow will soon be adopted as the global default. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said earlier this month that...
Data Fabrics Bring Speed and Agility. Just Make Sure Those Seams are Secure
The increasing complexity and volume of data used by enterprises has prompted as rethink among chief data officers about how best to manage it. The needs of more individuals within an organisation to access information that was once the preserve of a handful of managers, and the switch in emphasis from systems-derived to externally sourced...
ICE to Expand Geospatial Framework for MBS ESG Assessment Globally
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is planning to expand globally a hyper-local geospatial data grid that the market services giant has begun using to provide mortgage investors with sustainability risk information. The Atlanta and New York-based company expects the tool, which can map data to spaces down to 100 metres square and can drill down to the...
VendEx Solutions Launches Vendor Gateway to Market Data Platform
Market data administration specialist VendEx Solutions has launched VLink, the latest iteration of its VendEx ecosystem, which aims to create digital connections between market data vendors and financial institutions. Following the launch of its VSource vendor services directory in June last year, VLink is the vendor gateway that enables vendors to highlight and share detailed...
Energy Firm Vitol Deploys Relativity Trace to Combat Market Abuse
Energy and commodity trading company Vitol has deployed Chicago-based Relativity’s AI-powered communication surveillance platform, Relativity Trace, to proactively detect regulatory misconduct. Relativity Trace’s alerting capabilities can help reduce false positives, with Vitol experiencing a 92% reduction on false positive alerting, according to Relativity. Vitol implemented Relativity Trace in just under four months. The system is now used...
Squirro Uses Natural Language Processing to Provide Augmented Intelligence on Unstructured Data
Meet Squirro, a Zurich, Switzerland-based provider of augmented intelligence based on unstructured data and natural language processing (NLP), and a mission ‘to deliver insanely great returns on enterprise data’ by providing customers with the right information at the right moment at the right place, automatically. The company was set up in 2012 and works across...
16 Best Data Governance Solution Providers in 2022
The principles and procedures of an organization’s data storage, handling and security make up its data governance framework. How data is input, stored, manipulated, accessed and deleted is crucial to regulatory compliance and requires the implementation of a strict data governance infrastructure. Firms must put the right people in place to support, sponsor, and steward...
Social Taxonomy Poses Data Challenges Say Experts
The European Union’s plans to create a Social Taxonomy will pose even greater data challenges than the framework created for financial institutions and companies to report on their environmental impacts. Experts warn that the lack of concrete data on issues such as diversity and modern slavery will make the process of formulating the regulation slow...