A-Team Insight Author: sharon
Exegy and Vela Merge to Create Market Data and Execution Technology Powerhouse
Exegy, a provider of hardware accelerated solutions for market data and predictive analytics, and Vela, a market data and execution technology provider, have announced the merger of their business operations in an agreement backed by Marlin Equity Partners, a global investment firm with over $7.5 billion of capital commitments under management. Commercial terms of the...
Pico Taps Intel ‘Ice Lake’ to Achieve Sustained 100Gbps Processing for Corvil Analytics
Trading infrastructure specialist Pico has teamed with Intel to achieve 100Gbps sustained real-time processing for its Corvil Analytics product, which is used by financial institutions to manage and analyse their network flow. The development comes hot on the heels of Intel Capital joining other investors in funding a $135 million Series C investment round for...
GoldenSource Innovates ESG Solution Based on Established Data Management Capabilities
GoldenSource has introduced ESG Impact, an ESG solution based on its established data management capabilities and designed to provide ESG data coverage, comparison, quality checks, and portfolio screening. The company is working with about 20 ESG data vendors to understand their materiality maps and use its established data model to correlate data at intake and...
Surveillance 2.0 – Turn Up the Signal, Wipe Out the Noise
By Joseph Schifano, Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, Eventus Systems. Trade surveillance is a complex discipline, dependent on the processing and filtering of masses of data. Its mandate is constantly increasing too, with the relentless iterations of regulatory and market change demanding the monitoring of more asset classes across more business lines and against an...
IHS Markit Teams Up with Wave Labs to Enhance Fixed Income Price Discovery
IHS Markit has partnered with Wave Labs, a start-up specialising in fixed income liquidity sourcing, to accelerate price discovery and deliver insights and operating efficiencies to buy-side fixed income managers. The arrangement involves plug-and-play integration of IHS Markit’s thinkFolio multi-asset investment management platform with Wave Lab’s Electronic Liquid Seeking Application (eLiSA). Sourcing liquidity in fixed...
Toronto Exchanges Adopt IHS Markit for ESG Reporting and Data Distribution
IHS Markit is making its ESG Reporting Repository platform available free of charge to corporations listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and its TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) under a strategic alliance aimed at helping TSX-listed companies navigate emerging ESG reporting requirements. The IHS Markit ESG Reporting Repository is a multi-framework ESG reporting and data...
Lysis Partners with Opsmatix for Off-Grid CLM to Address AML
Lysis Group has teamed with AI automation specialist Opsmatix to launch an Off-Grid Workflow (OGW) solution in support of financial institutions’ client lifecycle management (CLM) implementations. The new solution – designed to mitigate the cost of financial crime and AML activities – aims to address the 30%-50% of client workflows that exist outside of firms’...
ICE Expands ESG Reference Data Service to Include Companies In Key US Indices
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has expanded the content on its environmental, social and governance (ESG) reference data platform to include high quality, granular data that can be used to make actionable comparisons across companies and sectors. The expansion includes coverage of companies in key indices, including the ICE U.S. 1000 Index, which measures the performance of...
LIBOR’s End Should be a New Beginning for Corporate Treasuries’ Data Management
By Neil Sandle, Head of Product Management, Alveo. For many treasuries, LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate) is one of their most critical benchmarks. Together with the exchange rates of major currencies it is an essential piece of data, underpinning contracts worth trillions of dollars. The long-standing centrality of LIBOR is why well-publicised global moves to...
Advancing Regulatory Data Collections Systems
By Ken Lamar, Founder and Principal Partner, Lamar Associates LLC (With Robert Lee, Executive Director, North America Client Engagement, AxiomSL). Regulators are beginning a journey to design the next generation of data collection systems. A critical aspect of the design process is the need for new data capabilities to effectively conduct supervisory activities to ensure...