A-Team Insight Author: sharon
KX Takes kdb+ to the Next Level with KX Insights Cloud Native Streaming Analytics
KX has released KX Insights, a cloud native streaming analytics solution that provides fast, scalable real-time data insights without the capex and maintenance burden of on-premise infrastructure. KX Insights is built on the company’s cloud version of the kdb+ time series database and uses a microservices architecture that supports not only new KX users but...
Orenda Taps Twitter and AI to Provide Real-Time, High-Frequency ESG Scores
Orenda Software Solutions is taking an innovative approach to ESG by tapping Twitter content and using an AI powered platform to provide real-time, high-frequency ESG scores and insights into a company’s reputation that can help measure the sustainability and societal impact of an investment. The company was founded in 2015 by CEO Tanya Seajay, a...
GLEIF Moves LEI Uses Cases on from Regulatory Compliance to Digital Identity Products
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) is extending use cases of the LEI beyond regulatory reporting to solutions initially including digital certificates. The first commercial demonstration of LEIs embedded within digital certificates has been made by the China Financial Certification Authority (CFCA), which has also signed up as a validation agent within the global...
NeoXam Partners Market Data Consultancy MDP to Extend Reach of DataHub
Paris-based data management platform provider NeoXam has forged an alliance with market data consultancy MDP to extend the reach of its DataHub platform in the DACH region comprising Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The initiative will focus on helping clients deal with market and reference data challenges such as costs, multi-vendor strategies, reconciling data sources and...
SteelEye Eyes North American Expansion with Beacon-Led Funding Round
UK-based regulatory data integration specialist SteelEye has secured £5 million of new funding from Boston-based Beacon Equity Partners, a private equity focused on the financial technology space, to finance its expansion into the North American marketplace. The company has already opened an office in Boston and is in the process of adding 22 new staff...
Preparing for IFPR: The Time to Act is Now
By Kwame Frimpong, Regulatory Product Manager at Wolters Kluwer FRR. With the implementation of the new Investment Firms Prudential Regime (IFPR), the FCA is aiming to streamline and simplify the prudential requirements for solo-regulated investment firms in the UK. While key details of the new rules remain to be finalized, panellists joining me on a...
TP ICAP Sets Up Parameta Solutions as New Brand for Data, Analytics and Post-Trade Offerings
TP ICAP has set up a new business, Parameta Solutions, to provide a flagship brand for its data and analytics division. It is due to be opened officially next week. Parameta’s data and analytics offerings will include unbiased OTC content and proprietary data, in-depth insights across price discovery, risk management, benchmarks and indices, and pre...
EOSE Appoints Dan Marcus as Strategic Advisor for Next Stage Development
EOSE, a provider of market data solutions, has appointed Dan Marcus as strategic advisor to help support the company’s next stage of development. He joins EOSE’s advisory board that includes KPMG’s asset management advisory team. EOSE was founded in 2018 by Suzanne Lock to help financial institutions commercialise their market data. Clients already on board...
NeoXam Partners with MDP to Grow Market Data Footprint in DACH Region
Paris-based data management platform provider NeoXam has forged an alliance with MDP – a new market data consultancy founded by former executives of Screen Group, now part of TRG Screen – to extend the reach of its DataHub platform in the DACH region comprising Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The initiative will focus on helping clients...
With First CFTC Limits Deadline Past, FundApps Urges Firms to Plan for Next Wave
Practitioners reported general readiness for last month’s introduction of new CFTC rules around position limits, a decade after the regulator first floated its plans for changing them. Regulated firms are now being urged to prepare for further changes scheduled for next year, which will introduce new exchange rules and federal limits on derivatives contracts not...