A-Team Insight Author: sharon
BNP Paribas Implements ipushpull’s PPQ to Digitise Pre-Trade Client Workflows
BNP Paribas has implemented PPQ (Pushpull Quotes) from London-based workflow and automation specialist ipushpull, to streamline workflows around non-standard, complex trades for asset manager clients. PPQ is a pre-trade workflow tool that standardises and automates the negotiation process between buy and sell side through a set of integrated data sharing and data-driven tools, using financial...
Crux Informatics Goes Live with Data Quality/Transformation Offerings as New CEO Freiberg Takes Helm
New York-based financial data delivery platform operator Crux Informatics has launched two new services, Crux Data Protect and Crux Wrangle, to help firms ensure data quality and transform datasets to meet internal requirements. The company has also hired a new CEO, Will Freiberg, who has replaced founder and ex-Thomson Reuters desktop head Philip Brittan, who...
Alveo Adds FactSet ESG Data Sets to Data Management Platform
Alveo has extended its commitment to ESG solutions with the integration of FactSet’s ESG data sets into its data management platform. It is also responding to buy-side firms’ requests to access, manipulate and analyse ESG data as part of broader efforts to achieve straight-through-processing for all reference data and deliver better data access to business...
SimCorp Collaborates with J.P. Morgan Securities Services to Deliver Front-to-Back Integration
SimCorp is collaborating with J.P. Morgan’s securities services to provide mutual clients with front-to-middle office and custody integration. The integration is live at an asset owner in Asia-Pacific and is designed to address costly and fragmented investment processes that contribute to operational risk by automating workflows and increasing data transparency. The companies suggest post-trade processing...
Demystifying Data Science and Analytics
By Sarah Carver, head of digital services at Delta Capita. Data science and analytics are the keys to growth for any financial services organisation, and over the past decade, there has been an increased realisation in the potential value of data. However, despite the increasing importance of data science, many institutions face challenges due to...
Streams: The Way to Better Liquidity in the FX Markets
By Phil Weisberg, EVP of Strategic Planning and Partnerships, oneZero. Sourcing liquidity in foreign exchange trading is a herculean task for banks, one not helped by an ever-evolving thicket of global regulation and the complicated nature of FX infrastructure and trading. The traditional way of looking at how to provide the necessary liquidity has been...
CJC Extends Availability of mosaicOA to BT Radianz Cloud
Market data technology specialist CJC has extended availability of its mosaicOA infrastructure performance monitoring solution to BT Radianz Cloud, making the IT visualisation and analytics tool the first to be made available to Radianz users. The move follows the recently addition of mosaicOA to Google Cloud. The mosaicOA platform provides firms with interactive dashboards to...
ComplyAdvantage Tops Up Series C Funding with Goldman Sachs Investment
ComplyAdvantage, a financial crime compliance specialist, has received new investment from Goldman Sachs Growth Equity. The investment will be used to build on the company’s rapid growth and cement its position as a critical part of the value chain for companies managing evolving risks around anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) processes, as...
FCA Completes Transition from Gabriel to RegData Data Collection Platform
The FCA has completed the replacement of its long-standing Gabriel data collection platform with RegData having recently transitioned a final batch of firms to the new platform. In total, 52,000 firms and 120,000 users have been moved from Gabriel to RegData since the transition began in October 2020. RegData is central to the FCA’s data...
Franz Inc. and Smartlogic Collaborate to Deliver Scalable, Distributed, Semantic Knowledge Graph Solutions
Franz Inc., a provider of graph database technology, and Smartlogic, a provider of semantic AI technology, have collaborated to help large enterprises accelerate deployment of highly-scalable, distributed, semantic knowledge graph solutions that can process real-time information and retrieve knowledge from data stored across the enterprise and beyond. Both companies are based in California and have...